13 Movie Hoaxes That Completely Fooled Everyone

4. The Ghost Of A Young Boy Is Visible In Three Men & A Baby

Now, this one's an absolute classic. Three Men and a Baby is a hit 1987 comedy co-starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson as three bachelors forced to care for a baby.

Much like The Wizard of Oz, the movie's VHS release led to the wide circulation of a theory that it features a "cameo" appearance by the ghost of a boy who killed himself with a shotgun in the house where the sequence was filmed (visible on the left of the frame).

Though the steep angle of the shot does indeed make the figure resemble a young boy, this was ultimately solved incredibly easily: the object is in fact a cardboard cutout of Ted Danson's character, which was intended to be used in a subplot eventually discarded from the film.

Furthermore, the movie was filmed on bespoke sets and not any existing residences. Even though it was debunked without much fuss, the urban legend still endures among many younger viewers.