Veronica is based on a true story about the unsolved case of a young girl in Madrid in 1992 named Estefania Gutierrez Lazaro, who mysteriously died after using an Ouija board. BuzzFeed News found a network of over 40 sites that have published more than 750 fake news stories. The Hoax is a good treat in this month's lot of schlock and big-budget trash by sticking close to making it an actor's movie, and sort of a bittersweet take on what a hoax does in such a grand scale as that of Howard Hughes, and what it does to a person the longer and more intense it goes on for. True, the house had been the scene of a horrible multiple murder a little over a year before, when 23-year-old Ronnie DeFeo went from room to room … Daniel Radcliffe Does NOT Have Coronavirus — Read The Disturbing True Story Behind Twitter Hoax That Fooled Real Reporters! What will not be a hoax is the totalitarian regime that is coming into place in the Western world as a result of the hoax. Shares. Britain's Manchester Evening News (April 6, 2006) termed it a hoax that "fooled the world." The True Story Behind The Biggest Fake News Hit Of The Election. The Story Behind the 'Alien Autopsy' Hoax. The coronavirus itself is not a hoax, but the reaction to it is a hoax. When Sybil first came out in 1973, not only did it shoot to the top of the best-seller lists — it manufactured a psychiatric phenomenon. Based on a famous "Cottingley fairies" hoax perpetrated by two English girls during World War I in 1917, "FairyTale: A True Story" presents alternate views of reality to suggest that, like the view of Aborigines, dreams are as real as conscious reality. By Joe Nickell 07 May 2006. Based on actual events, The Hoax tells the incredible true story behind one of the most daring cons of the late 20th century.