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No. 10 - Bigfoot Hoax

Even though most people don't believe in Bigfoot, the world was captivated when on July 9 a pair of Bigfoot hunters claimed that they had discovered the body of a deceased Sasquatch in a forest in northern Georgia. However the hoax was so bad that it didn't take a PhD to see that the creature was really a Halloween costume mixed with some animal parts.

Get more on Bigfoot at How Stuff Works.

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