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There is a rather disturbing story circulating the internet that claims a woman was caught masturbating with a Transformer toy in a McDonald's ball pit. The article was posted by Now8News, a notorious hoax website who photoshopped an unrelated mugshot into a McDonald's ball pit. Now8News reports that Mindy Schillinger is the name of the woman accused of this…

There is an insanely NOT TRUE story making the rounds on the internet about a man getting frisky with his kity cat, titled "Man Rushed To Emergency Room To Have Cat Removed From His Penis". It comes from a known hoax site but some people don't understand that. Lead Stories debunked a similar story a few months ago "Man Emasculated…

An Oranugtang at a Tennesee zoo did not give birth to a human baby, contrary to reports circulating on the internet. Lucy, a 200 pound orangutang supposedly gave birth to a human baby girl. Although the story was filed from Nashville, it does not mention the actual name of the zoo or who the 'father' is. The story claims the…

There is a NOT TRUE story making the rounds on the internet about a crazed man attacking dancers at a strip club with a needle containing the AIDS virus. NOT TRUE. The story comes from a known hoax site, but some people don't take note of that. The NOT TRUE story states: A Las Vegas man is now under arrest…

There is a NOT TRUE story on a known hoax/fake website with the header "Police Find 12 White Female Bodies In Garage Freezer Tagged With Black Lives Matter". Although it comes from a hoax website many people don't read the fine print at the bottom of the page. Some of the fake stories out there are humorous and harmless, but…

A gruesome internet hoax is making the rounds since yesterday: a New York couple, supposedly high on methamphetamine, was said to have eaten the fingers and four toes of a homeless man in Central Park. The two, named as 'Matthew Scroggins' (aged 32) and 'Martha Childress' (aged 43) were reportedly hungrly after not eating for five days. A non-existent NYPD…

Today's hoax story making the rounds is about 'Sammy Blythe', a 17-year old teen from Colorado. Supposedly he was at this party or rave and because he misplaced his ecstasy pills he allegedly walked down to a river and licked a toad because one species, 'Bufo alvarius' (also known as the Colorado River Toad) secretes bufotenine (aka 5-meO-DMT), a substance…

The popular 'Netflix and Chill' internet meme has spawned another hoax article. After National Report's fake claims about Planned Parenthood and 'Netflix and Pill', fake news site Now8News gets in on the action with 'Life Alert & Chill'. Image: Now8News According to their story 'Norma Watson' and 'Harold Gilli', two residents at the 'Shady Creek Senior Home', decided to get…

Fake news website Now8News claims the fast food giant will close 17,000 restaurants in the U.S. because the minimum wage increase from $8.75 per hour to $15 an hour is costing them too much and they can't make a profit anymore. Obviously this is a totally false story: in order to close 17,000 restaurants in the U.S. they would first…

Image: Now8News.com An early Halloween scare story is trending strongly on the internet today, getting over 10,000 likes/shares per hour on Facebook according to Lead Stories' Trendolizer tracking software. According to the story a teenage boy was being eaten alive by a 'crazy looking man', seemingly as part of a display in an haunted house. One of the visitors…