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The Hurricane Harvey freeway shark hoax
The Hurricane Harvey freeway shark was a myth which originated in 2017, after the devastation of Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana. It came about after a Twitter user posted an image of what seemed to be a shark swimming next to their car on the freeway in Houston, Texas. The image was soon debunked — discovered to be a common hoax that is spread after a natural disaster occurs. Instead, the original image of the shark was found to have been taken in 2005 by a kayaker off the shore of South Africa, after a great white shark was spotted following them. It was then edited onto an image of a flooded street, and has since been used to spread false news.
Description of the original hoax:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Shark
Original hoax photo shared on Twitter:
My photo edit
Original images I worked from:
Below is my rendition of the hoax, depicting a shark swimming in the waters of a flooded street:
