10 Ridiculous Fake Status Updates Your Friends Shared On Facebook

6. A Sea Monster Is Eating Great White Sharks

This summer, a particularly evocative news story has been doing the rounds, shared all over Facebook. It€™s a mysterious story about a great white shark, tagged by research scientists, that was discovered to have been savaged and eaten by€ something€ something in the deep of the oceans (dramatic music). No one knows what it might have been, but (music swells menacingly) it means there€™s a predator out there in the oceans that€™s tougher and nastier than Jaws (jump cut, scare strings). In fact there isn€™t, obviously. The story originates from a documentary special from last year, which answers the question within the narrative of the film itself. What could kill a great white shark? Well, another great white shark. All the news sources that reported on this bogus story throughout June, including the more reputable ones that remembered to cite the documentary, missed the important part of the film€ the bit that actually solved the problem that their stories were based upon. But what€™s an exaggerated non-mystery when you€™ve got pages to fill and advertising revenue to earn?