10 Famous Photographs That Fooled Everyone

9. The Surgeon's Photograph

The first photo of a head and neck purporting to belong to the fabled Loch Ness Monster in Scotland, this image by Dr. Robert Wilson gained an incredible amount of media attention in the '30s. The story was that Dr. Wilson saw the monster while looking over the look, and snapped two photos: a blurry, almost undistinguishable exposure, and the famous one above.

After being printed in the Daily Mail in 1934, the "Surgeon's Photograph" became an international phenomenon. For a while, the image was the primary factor in many people's belief that the Loch Ness Monster was real.

In 1999, a book entitled 'Nessie - the Surgeon's Photograph Exposed' revealed that the photo is actually of a toy submarine with a neck and head made of plastic wood. Despite this and the vast majority of other alleged photos of the monster being proven as fake, belief in Nessie is still widespread across the world.