10 Doctor Who Rumours That Were Actually True

10. Flying Sharks At Christmas

Doctor Who is a crazy universe where anything can happen. Over the years, we've had talking spiders and sentient balls of fat - so it's not like there's a limit to the madness that can occur!

However, when rumours began to circulate that the 2010 Christmas special would see the Eleventh Doctor, Amy, and Rory do battle with "flying sharks", there was a lot of understandable skepticism. For one thing, the idea sounded utterly ridiculous - even for Doctor Who - and for another, the rumour originated from the notoriously sketchy British tabloid, the Daily Star.

It's always advisable to take tabloid reports with a grain of salt, and that's exactly what many Doctor Who fans did in this particular case. But in a rare, unprecedented twist, it turned out that the rumour was actually correct, with the idea of a flying shark featuring prominently throughout the episode.

Well, technically, the shark doesn't fly - it "swims" through the air, thanks to a combination of dense fog and a tiny electrical current. But let's not rob the Daily Star of its victory over a simple game of semantics, eh?