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Fake Photo Doesn’t Show Real Hurricane Over Miami, Florida | Snopes.comA picture taken from high in the air that shows H...
06/03/2023

Fake Photo Doesn’t Show Real Hurricane Over Miami, Florida | Snopes.com

A picture taken from high in the air that shows Hurricane Ian or another large storm hovering over Miami, Florida, is real.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, which made landfall in Florida on Sept. 28, 2022, an old picture of massive storm clouds hovering above the state’s coastline was shared on social media. One reader asked us in an email if it showed Ian touching down on Fort Myers, while others mentioned Miami. However, this was not a genuine photograph, but rather a composite image of the city of Miami that had been combined with a picture of storm clouds that was captured in Kansas. It was created in 2019 by a digital artist.

On Oct. 2, the fact-checking team at Misbar reported that the fake picture was going around on Twitter with the false claim that it showed Ian in Miami.

The user misleadingly claimed to have taken the picture from an airplane as Ian hit Florida.

This wasn’t the first time that we reported on this fake photograph. On Sept. 3, 2019, we published another fact check and also gave a “False” rating on the claim that the same image showed Hurricane Dorian.

The fake photograph was previously posted on Reddit on April 28, 2019. After we waded through all of the jokes and other remarks that were made in the top comments, we found several helpful links buried in the replies.

“This post is clearly Photoshopped,” a comment read. One user posted this Google Maps link that showed the same high-angle view in Miami that’s seen in the viral image. Another user appeared to figure out that the storm clouds that were copied and pasted into the photograph of Miami came from this picture that was originally taken in Leoti, Kansas, on May 21, 2016. Several people on Twitter had also tweeted this comparison as well.

The creator of the digital artwork was Brent Shavnore. Shavnore once uploaded a tutorial video that showed how he made the art. Part of that video was apparently reshared when Dorian made landfall in 2019. (The videos on Shavnore’s YouTube account are no longer available.)

After social media users shared his work and claimed it showed Ian, Shavnore retweeted an article from Eleanor McCrary, a fact-check journalist with USA Today. McCrary reported that Shavnore had originally shared the artwork on his own Instagram page on April 12, 2019, just 16 days before the Reddit thread was created.

McCrary also noted quite the coincidence. On Sept. 28, just as Ian was beginning to slam Florida’s coast, Shavnore himself was captured in a picture that showed him running through the rain. It was taken by Getty Images photographer Joe Raedle.

For further reading, we previously published reporting about several other rumors on the subject of Ian. We also put together a collection of fake hurricane photographs. This collection can be a handy resource when social media users inevitably reshare some of the pictures in the future, misleadingly claiming they are real and were taken during a new storm.

Sources:

britainunwrapped. “Miami Florida.” r/pics via Reddit.com, 28 Apr. 2019, https://ift.tt/fCkFQBY.

Buy Weather Photos: 21 May 2016, Leoti, KS 1. https://ift.tt/RGwA3dM.

“FAKE ALERT: No, This Is Not a Video of Hurricane Dorian as Seen from Florida.” The Times of India, 7 Sept. 2019, https://ift.tt/zasCFNH.

“Google Maps.” Google Maps, https://ift.tt/S4BPnM1.

“Hurricane Ian’s Path of Destruction.” National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS), https://ift.tt/5BI1mAi.

Khoudary, Hind. “This Is Not a Photo of Hurricane Ian; It Is an Artwork.” Misbar, 2 Oct. 2022, https://ift.tt/jv7qtE9.

McCrary, Eleanor. “Fact Check: Viral Image Is Digital Art, Not a Picture of Hurricane Ian.” USA Today, 30 Sept. 2022, https://ift.tt/YdMQzhT.

—. Twitter, 6 Oct. 2022, https://twitter.com/ellie_mccrary/.
Twitter, 1 Oct. 2022, https://twitter.com/nilojeda/.

Raedle, Joe. “Brent Shavnore Runs to a Sheltered Spot through the Wind and Rain…” Getty Images, 28 Sept. 2022, https://ift.tt/GTQjpm1.

Shavnore, Brent. “Amazing Animation Edit to My Artwork from .og .” Facebook, 19 May 2019, https://ift.tt/vlnRH9f.

TinEye Reverse Image Search. https://tineye.com/.

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Was Adidas Founded by a Former N**i? | Snopes.comShoes and sportswear company Adidas was founded by a former N**i.Contex...
06/03/2023

Was Adidas Founded by a Former N**i? | Snopes.com

Shoes and sportswear company Adidas was founded by a former N**i.

Context

The man who founded Adidas in 1949 had been a card-carrying member of the N**i Party, but the extent of his involvement with the party and its tenets is debated.

Fact Check

After rapper and fashion designer Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, caused an uproar by making anti-Semitic comments, a number of prominent companies rescinded their partnerships with him, including Adidas. The sportswear giant had been in a decade-long partnership with Ye, developing his Yeezy branded sneakers and other products that became best selling items.

On Oct. 25, 2022, Adidas announced that they were terminating their partnership with Ye:

adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech. Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.

After a thorough review, the company has taken the decision to terminate the partnership with Ye immediately, end production of Yeezy branded products and stop all payments to Ye and his companies. adidas will stop the adidas Yeezy business with immediate effect.

This is expected to have a short-term negative impact of up to €250 million on the company’s net income in 2022 given the high seasonality of the fourth quarter.

But the company has its own dark ties to anti-Semitism, in the form of its founder, Adolf “Adi” Dassler, who had been a member of the N**i Party. Dassler, according to the Adidas website, registered a company in 1924 as “Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik” with the aim of creating the best sports equipment. After this, the website skips over a chunk of history, and goes to 1949:

On August 18, 1949, Adi Dassler started over again at the age of 49, registered the ‘Adi Dassler adidas Sportschuhfabrik’ and set to work with 47 employees in the small town of Herzogenaurach. In the same year, he registered a shoe that included the registration of the soon-to-become-famous adidas 3-Stripes.

So what was Dassler up to before and during World War II? His first company was actually started in 1924 with his brother Rudolf. Although a German sprinter wearing the Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory’s shoes won the bronze medal at the Olympics in 1932, it was Black American sprinter Jesse Owens who won multiple gold medals wearing Dassler Brothers shoes in 1936, putting the company on the map.

The Dasslers both joined the N**i party in 1933, according to the German magazine Der Spiegel. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Sports Studies, their initial company had “prospered in the N**i years in the 1930s, as sport became a popular pursuit associated with the goals of the Hi**er regime.” Adi even joined the Hi**er Youth in 1935 as a sports coach and supplier.

Like many small and medium-sized companies in war-era Germany, they participated in the N**i war effort. Four years into World War II, the shoemakers in Herzogenaurach, the Dasslers’ hometown, were suffering and ordered to cease all civilian operations in Dec. 1943. The German army was in retreat, and resources were scarce. The Dassler factory’s shoe-making machines were converted into spot-welding equipment for weapons manufacturing. At this point, everyone in Herzogenaurach was working for the military.

The brothers reportedly disagreed on politics, however. According to the book “Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sport” by Barbara Smit, Rudolf was more sympathetic to the N**i cause, while Adolf preferred to focus on the business:

The stranglehold that the N**is established on all aspects of German life forced both brothers to become more deeply involved with the movement. They signed off letters with the obligatory “Heil Hi**er!” They held the same, swastika-stamped membership card of the National Socialist Driver Corps, the NSKK. The two brothers, however, didn’t embrace the cause with equal warmth. While Rudolf vocally expressed his approval of the government’s policies, Adi usually stuck to his ordinary, hardworking decency.

The Dasslers aided in manufacturing the Panzerschreck, also known as the “Stovepipe,” a weapon fashioned after the American bazooka. The Stovepipe was a shoulder-fired steel tube that could pe*****te 8-inch thick steel armor. In the plant, shoe seamstresses became welders, and French people were forced laborers.

“The Panzerschreck represented a quantum leap for the infantry in terms of anti-tank defense,” Christian Hartmann, a military historian at the Munich-based Institute of Contemporary History (IfZ), told Der Spiegel. “It was the first weapon that German infantrymen fighting on their own could use to destroy tanks from a distance.”

And yet, it arrived too late to turn the war in favor of Germany. As Allied forces took over their town and debated destroying their factory, it was Adi’s wife, Käthe, who convinced the soldiers that they were only interested in making sports shoes. And the occupying forces became a blessing for the shoe company– after the U.S. set up a military base in the town and learned that the Desslers had manufactured Jesse Owens’ shoes, they began buying all their products. Large orders from Americans for basketball, baseball, and hockey products gave the Desslers their first major boost worldwide.

Accounts of Adi’s relationship with the N**i Party after the war varied. According to “Sneaker Wars,” Adi argued that his participation was a sign of “political ignorance.” However, during the denazification efforts of the postwar era, he was accused of profiting from the war by a committee.

In response, Adi cited his hiring of a prominent antifascist in the factory, alongside refugees and prisoners whom he claimed to have treated generously. He claimed that he had focused on sports, conscientiously staying away from political rallies, and was a prominent member of numerous sports organizations, affiliated with conflicting political movements. The book goes on to describe his relationship with Jewish community members:

When it came to his relationship with Jews, the shoemaker’s records confirmed that he continued to deal with Jewish leather traders long after this had become politically incorrect. But the most convincing piece of evidence in this respect was a letter from Hans Wormser, mayor of the adjoining village of Weisendorf, who described himself as a half-Jew. Wormser vividly recalled how Adolf Dessler had warned him of his impending arrest by the Gestapo and sheltered the mayor in his property. “A true supporter of Adolf Hi**er would certainly not have done this, putting his existence and the well-being of his family on the line,” Wormser wrote.

Rudolf eventually split from Adolf Dessler after the war, going on to found Puma as a rival operation across the river, which became a global company in its own right. Their split was acrimonious, influenced in part by Rudolf being arrested by American soldiers, and accused of being a high-ranking N**i Party member, who performed counterespionage and censorship. He was told that his arrest was triggered by a “denunciation,” which he suspected came from his brother. Later, in front of denazification committees, Rudolf would accuse his brother of being entirely responsible for the production of the Stovepipe. Käthe would go on to defend her husband, saying he did everything he could to exonerate his brother, and that Rudolf was responsible for holding political speeches outside their factory.

Adi was first classified by the committees as someone who profited greatly off the N**i regime, and after numerous appeals to change his classification, his wife’s defense, and amidst fighting with his own brother, he was classified as a “Mitlåufer,” one of millions of Germans who became party members without actively contributing to the N**i regime. After all the mudslinging, the brothers resolved to split.

Adidas officially came into being in 1949, and the company website picks up its own telling of the story from there, ignoring the war years in between.

Sources:

Allyn, Bobby. “Adidas Cuts Ties with Ye over Antisemitic Remarks That Caused an Uproar.” NPR, 25 Oct. 2022. NPR, https://ift.tt/JHUD1dm. Accessed 27 Oct. 2022.

“History .” Adidas, https://ift.tt/bCyEJ2c. Accessed 27 Oct. 2022.

Kuhn, Robert, and Thomas Thiel. “Shoes and N**i Bazookas: The Prehistory of Adidas and Puma.” Der Spiegel, 4 Mar. 2009. www.spiegel.de, https://ift.tt/Yzqhfop. Accessed 27 Oct. 2022.

Smit, Barbara. “Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sports.” United States, HarperCollins, 2009. Accessed 27 Oct. 2022.

Tomlinson, Alan. A Dictionary of Sports Studies. Oxford University Press, 2010. Google Books, https://ift.tt/Ljl4AVC. Accessed 27 Oct. 2022.

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Did Scary Clowns Kill 23 People in Canada? | Snopes.comWeapons-wielding clowns from the U.S. invaded Canada and murdered...
05/03/2023

Did Scary Clowns Kill 23 People in Canada? | Snopes.com

Weapons-wielding clowns from the U.S. invaded Canada and murdered 23 victims.

Origin

On 3 October 2016 the Global Sun web site published an article reporting that weapons-wielding clowns from the U.S. had invaded Canada and murdered 23 victims there:

As it’s getting closer to halloween, what seemed to be a harmless joke at first, suddenly turned into a serious matter with the police. What started off as reports of creepy clowns luring around neighbourhoods in the US, has suddenly escalated to another level. It is believed that the surge of clowns spotted wielding weapons originated from some states in America, but has made it’s way up north.

There was no truth to this story. The Global Sun is a fake news web site that does not publish factual stories, as noted in their disclaimer:

The Global Sun is a satire website, articles/post on the website are all made-up stories and should not be taken seriously.

This fabricated killer clown story was published in amidst numerous reports of clown sightings in the United States. In August 2016, residents of Greenville, South Carolina reported that clowns were attempting to lure children into the woods. A few weeks later, the clowns had migrated to North Carolina, and since then scary clowns have been reported in various locations across the United States — although actual evidence of their existence is lacking:

But amid all of these reports, no clowns have been photographed. Police investigators have found no traces of clown activity. Not even a stray red nose or a strand of blue hair.

So what are these insidious creatures? According to one clown expert, they’re probably “phantom clowns.”

Fake news web sites have taken advantage of the recent uptick in coulrophobia to publish bogus reports about clown-related deaths. However, clowns did not kill 23 people in Canada, nor was a clown shot in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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Did These People Take a Selfie with Co-Worker Who Died of a Heart Attack? | Snopes.comA photograph shows a group of peop...
05/03/2023

Did These People Take a Selfie with Co-Worker Who Died of a Heart Attack? | Snopes.com

A photograph shows a group of people playfully gathered around their co-worker after he died of a heart attack.

In September 2019, a picture supposedly showing a group of people playfully gathered around their dead co-worker for a selfie went viral after it was shared on the website iFunny under the caption, “Man suffers heart attack, dies at work, coworkers gather for group selfie thinking he’d fallen asleep.”

This is a genuine photograph, but the “dead” man isn’t actually dead. He’s just sleeping.

The photograph was first posted online in 2016. It was originally shared in the “TIFU” (today I f*cked up) section of Reddit under the caption: “TIFU by falling asleep at the job on my second day.” This picture was then subsequently posted to “PSBattles,” a section of Reddit dedicated to photoshopping images, and quickly became a viral meme:

Shortly after the picture went viral, this sleepy individual (a Redditor by the name of TheOrangeDuke) spoke with the Huffington Post about his internet infamy:

“One of the associates noticed me sleeping,” he told The Huffington Post. “And it just went downhill from there!”

The lighthearted staff decided to snap an office photo with the slumbering intern. When he awoke, he found the picture so funny that he posted it on Reddit …

And believe it or not, TheOrangeDuke, who would like for him and his company to remain anonymous, did not get fired for catching zzz’s at work. He’s on his third day of his internship and had a perfectly logical reason for his catnap.

“I have been diagnosed with anemia, as shown by my amazing skin color, that causes me to be ultra sleepy!” he said.

CNBC also interviewed “TheOrangeDuke,” identified as Eduard Paraschivescu, in 2016:

“It doesn’t really bother me — I’m not naked, I’m not getting shamed,” he told CBC News. “I’m just surrounded by amazing people who are having a blast!”

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Did Obama Say ‘Don’t Underestimate Joe’s Ability to F*ck Things Up’? | Snopes.comFormer U.S. President Barack Obama once...
05/03/2023

Did Obama Say ‘Don’t Underestimate Joe’s Ability to F*ck Things Up’? | Snopes.com

Former U.S. President Barack Obama once said of U.S. President Joe Biden, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up.”

In October 2022, Twitter users shared a purported quote that claimed former U.S. President Barack Obama once said of U.S. President Joe Biden, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up.”

The only smart thing Obama ever said was “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*ck things up.”

— K-Doll () October 19, 2022

The quote was also tweeted in the past by right-wing activists Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk, Ryan Fournier, and the Libs of TikTok account, as well as Donald Trump Jr., the Trump War Room account, former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, and former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.

This quote was first reported by Politico on Jan. 17, 2020, just days before the Iowa caucuses, where Biden came in fourth place. The article cited an anonymous source for the remark:

Knowing Obama wouldn’t endorse before a clear winner emerged in the crowded Democratic primary, Biden began the campaign saying he privately told Obama he didn’t want him to endorse anyway. Those who have spoken to Obama about Biden have issued conflicting accounts about whether Obama wanted him to run, with some saying the former president approved — especially because Biden is running on a platform of unabashedly furthering his legacy — to those who said Obama wasn’t enthusiastic.

One Democrat who is neutral in the 2020 race and spoke to Obama about Biden’s gaffe-prone nature recalled the former president saying: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up.”

Despite the nature of the quote, it didn’t appear to be widely reported or even tweeted by any of the accounts mentioned above until just before the 2020 Democratic National Convention. That all changed after Politico published another story on Aug. 14 that included the same purported Obama quote:

Yet searing, anonymously sourced quotes from Obama kept appearing through the race. One Democrat who spoke to Obama recalled the former president warning, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up.” Speaking of his own waning understanding of today’s Democratic electorate, especially in Iowa, Obama told one 2020 candidate: “And you know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden.”

At the time that Politico published its second story with the quote, Biden was basically assured to receive the official Democratic Party nomination for president just days later. Thus, with Biden’s name being more relevant than it was back in January when Politico published its first story with the quote, the remark was then reprinted by other news organizations and has been shared on social media ever since.

The quote in question was published by a credible news organization, but was said to have come from an anonymous source, only identified as a “Democrat,” who claimed to have heard Obama make the remark. With no way for us to confirm the veracity of the quote, we have rated this claim as “Unproven.”

For further study, some readers might recall the time that Biden made a joke about U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, which did not appear to amuse Obama. The moment was captured on video.

Sources:

“2020 Iowa Caucus Election Results.” ABC News, 29 Feb. 2020, https://ift.tt/F8HD6Sv.

Biden Jokes About Roberts’ Oath Gaffe. TPM TV, 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7fsf8b1PcM.

Caputo, Marc. “‘Clever’: Biden Plays the Obama Card.” POLITICO, 17 Jan. 2020, https://ift.tt/KuOcXCx.

Lizza, Ryan. “Waiting for Obama.” POLITICO, 26 Nov. 2019, https://ift.tt/nFKMJfL.

Thompson, Alex. “‘The President Was Not Encouraging’: What Obama Really Thought About Biden.” POLITICO, 14 Aug. 2020, https://ift.tt/nXp6i0m.

“Top 10 Joe Biden Gaffes.” Time, 23 Mar. 2010, https://time.com/.

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The Mystery of the ‘Paranormal’ Trail Camera Photograph | Snopes.comMysterious pictures captured by trail cameras are no...
04/03/2023

The Mystery of the ‘Paranormal’ Trail Camera Photograph | Snopes.com

Mysterious pictures captured by trail cameras are not rare. However, only a small handful of the photographs have truly grasped the attention of the internet. For example, this purportedly “paranormal” photograph was captured in the woods by a trail camera with technology similar to what’s often referred to in movies as night vision. It shows what appears to be a figure that looks about the size of a human adult standing up straight.

The mysterious figure appears to be either looking at or away from the camera.

The picture has been endlessly shared by list articles that detail mysterious trail camera photographs. We even found that advertisers were banking on the picture by buying ads with it displayed.

This ad was running in July 2021.

We clicked the ad and were eventually led to a page that called it “unexplained” and potentially “paranormal.”

In order to attempt to find information about the origins of the photograph, we first began on Google.

Hunting for Answers

The simplest way to find other websites where a picture has been shared is to do a reverse image search. We recommend using TinEye and Google’s reverse image search tool.

TinEye’s tool is fairly simple. As for Google’s reverse image search engine, we recommend using Google Chrome. We right-clicked on the picture and clicked to, “Search Google for image.” Google then provided results of other websites where the picture appears.

Google returned a number of results with the search terms “camera,” “night vision,” and “scary.”

In the results, we saw headlines such as: “Scariest Things Caught on Night Vision Cameras,” “14 of the most eerie shots from hunting night vision cameras,” and “Horrifying Real Pictures From Trail Cameras.” Unfortunately, none of these list articles contained any helpful information about the origins of the trail camera picture.

Liberty, Texas

Buried in Google’s results for the “paranormal” trail camera photograph was some potentially helpful information on an old message board.

On Oct. 15, 2015, a new thread was created on the TexasBowhunter.com forums. A user named coldgas posted: “To celebrate Halloween in a couple of weeks, post your spooky trail cam pics.”

A member of the forum named Chew, who has been a part of the message board since 2006, posted: “I had a lease near Liberty, TX, and there was an old slave cemetery in one quarter of the ranch. Got this pic about 200 yards from the cemetery.” This was the photograph:

A woman wearing a long, white gown appears to be running.

It’s unclear when the photograph was captured. However, it appeared to be from sometime before October 2014. Chew also posted: “Still trying to figure this one out. […] Lease manager found bare human footprints in the same spot. [The person is] a LONG way from any roads or houses too. Edge of a swamp.”

We also don’t know why the person was in the woods at night. The choice of clothing is a potential clue. There are a number of possible explanations. Perhaps the person was running after their dog that ran away. Maybe they had simply gotten lost in the woods. If the person was a child, perhaps a parent dropped him or her off as punishment and said to find their way back home. However, these possibilities are nothing more than conjecture.

The person in Chew’s picture looked quite similar to the figure in the other photograph. Both pictures showed what appeared to be white gowns with short sleeves, as well as short hair on the mysterious “paranormal” figure.

Is this the same person caught on two trail cameras on the same property? Was either photograph a prank?

It’s possible that this is the same person caught on two different trail cameras in Liberty, Texas.

We were unable to find out on which website the viral photograph (left) was originally posted. However, it’s been making the rounds on the internet since at least 2015.

Slave Cemetery

Chew, the user of the message board who posted the similar photograph of what appeared to be a woman in a gown walking away from the camera, mentioned that it was captured “about 200 yards” from a slave cemetery in Liberty, Texas. The person also said that they “got off the lease a month or so” after discovering the picture and that it was taken in a place that was over 2 miles away from the nearest house.

Left behind by the message board user was a Google Maps link where the trail camera was supposedly placed. The coordinates were N43°38’19.39″ and W116°14’28.86″. Alternate coordinates were listed as: @29.9818611,-94.8056911.

The trail camera was purportedly placed where the red marker pinpoints. (Courtesy: Google Maps)

It’s true that a slave cemetery was located somewhat close to the trail camera position, near roads named FM 563 and CR 140. It’s unclear if this is the same cemetery referred to by Chew.

An article from Bluebonnet News reported that the graves were “bulldozed in the 1960s, leaving dozens of graves unmarked and the stories of the people buried lost to time.”

“Starting in about 1960, the cemetery was recognized as a one-acre cemetery with no metes and bounds. The title for the land was passed from the previous owner to the next,” said Linda Jamison, chair of the Liberty County Historical Commission.

According to Jamison, the cemetery headstones were destroyed by a previous owner who did not want black people coming onto the land and burying their dead.

“Someone took a bulldozer and destroyed the cemetery. They took the headstones off and buried them someplace. They took the fence down and built a barn to block the road coming into the cemetery,” Jamison said. “They destroyed that cemetery and those poor people couldn’t go in there and visit their relatives who were buried there.”

Among those denied access to the cemetery was Warren Deblanc. In an affidavit Warren wrote in 2010 at the age of 84, he shared his grief over not being allowed to visit his mother’s grave. His mother, Bettye Julius Deblanc, died on Aug. 6, 1933, when he was just an 8-year-old boy.

We were unable to find an exact location. The cemetery was not marked on Google Maps.

Inconclusive

While it’s possible that we tracked down part of the origins of the viral photograph, we still don’t know who was captured in the pictures. However, we reached out to Chew, the person who claimed to take the similar trail camera photograph, and will update this story should we hear back.

We’d also like to provide the following extra notes to readers. In the course of looking into the origins of mysterious “paranormal” trail camera pictures, we found that many list articles appeared to take pictures from past Field & Stream’s Trail Cam Photo Contests. Another source was morningmoss.com, which for years has published a “Trail Mix” series of trail camera photographs.

Readers interested in other “paranormal” tales might look to our stories about a Disney ghost rumor, a ghostly photograph from 1900, and something captured on a camera in a school.

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