5. Hercules The Horse-Sized Dog
The story of Hercules The Horse-Sized Dog, the number 5 on our list of biggest internet hoaxes that fooled the world started when an email began to circulate, showing a picture of a woman and a horse standing next to a man with a horse-sized dog. The dog was named Hercules, and the email claimed him to be the world’s biggest dog. The truth is, the real Hercules weighed in at 282 pounds and with a 38-inch neck, and he did set the 2001 Guinness World Record for “World’s Largest Dog”. The hoax was that his picture had been altered to make him appear to be the actual size of the horse next to him.
