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Man says photo at center of Civil War mystery is a 30-year-old hoax he did as a teen
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| 04.13.2015
| Fox News
Posted on 04/13/2015 11:02:03 AM PDT by dware
A photograph that has posed a Civil War mystery, puzzling historians for three decades, appears to be a long-surviving hoax.
The mysterious photograph of what appeared to be a far older photo — showing a figure in a coat and hat and the blurred image of a warship — surfaced in 1986. Some historians believed it might be a photo of the CSS Georgia, a Confederate ironclad that sank 150 years ago in Georgia as Union troops captured Savannah.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: civilwar; cssgeorgia; fakephotos; fauxtography; godsgravesglyphs; hoax; thecivilwar; waronerror
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"When he was a teenager in Savannah, Potter, his brother Jeffrey and a friend shot a short 8mm movie about the CSS Georgia. They built a 2-foot model.
At some point, Potter decided to test whether he had the skills to become a Hollywood special effects artist.
Potter’s younger brother put on a coat and straw hat and went out to a marsh with a cane fishing pole and Potter took a photo. He took another photo of the model. He glued the boat's image onto the photo of his brother, then used dirt and glue to "age" the photo.
Potter sent the photo to historical groups, setting off a sporadic search for a CSS Georgia photo that he now says never existed."
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:02:03 AM PDT
by
dware
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:02:35 AM PDT
by
dware
(The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
To: dware
The historians are all about to go negative...
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:06:45 AM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: dware
At some point, Potter decided to test whether he had the skills to become a Hollywood special effects artist. Apparently, he did have those skills.
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:06:46 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
To: WayneS
Apparently, he did have those skills. Right? That's good stuff, right there, to be able to keep the hoax going for 30 years
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:12:13 AM PDT
by
dware
(The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
To: dware
Strange none of the linked sites had a photo of this. I had to google CSS Georgia and pick through a bunch of photos of other ships till I found one that matched the description of the one mentioned.
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:20:23 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
( NEVER trust a politician with your firearm rights!)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Huh...the image in question was on the Fox News page I linked.
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:25:16 AM PDT
by
dware
(The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:27:27 AM PDT
by
dware
(The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
To: dware
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:27:37 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
( NEVER trust a politician with your firearm rights!)
To: dware
Maybe he is hoaxing us now.
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:30:07 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: dware
I had to block Adobe Flash Player to see the photo.
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:30:26 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
( NEVER trust a politician with your firearm rights!)
To: dware
Robert Holcombe, former curator of the National Civil War Naval Museum, told the AP in February that while the original photograph would be needed to confirm if the image was authentic, he believed it was real.Fake, but accurate, eh Bobby?
This is why I tell the kids, frequently, that whenever they hear someone say "According to experts..." their b.s. meter should go through the roof, and they should be extremely skeptical of whatever is said next.
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:41:49 AM PDT
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
To: dware
Thanks for the pic. I could have sworn I saw that image somewhere - civilwar.com perhaps (I don’t want to impugn them if it wasn’t them). Good hoax!
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:42:55 AM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: dware
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:47:55 AM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Guy third from the left is holding an iPhone. Dead giveaway.
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:50:02 AM PDT
by
Flick Lives
("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
I think that one might be a fake. It’s the font on the report he’s reading.
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
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posted on
04/13/2015 11:53:56 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
To: NorthMountain
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posted on
04/13/2015 12:01:00 PM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
To: dware
Isn’t that the one Dirk Pitt found in Africa?
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posted on
04/13/2015 12:02:19 PM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
So THAT’S how the North won!!! And here all along, I was thinking it was Alien assistance. The Mars kind of alien, not the obama kind.
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posted on
04/13/2015 12:04:21 PM PDT
by
dware
(The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
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