15 More True Stories That Sound Completely Made Up

15 true stories that sound completely made up — but actually happened.

A farmer searching for a lost hammer uncovered one of the greatest Roman treasures ever found in Britain. A man stole a plane and landed it on a Manhattan avenue — then did it again two years later because someone didn’t believe him. A wallpaper cleaner became one of the most famous toys in the world. France built a fake target outside Paris to fool German bombers. And two countries nearly turned a disagreement about whether lobsters walk or swim into an international naval crisis.

And those are only the beginning.

In this documentary, we explore 15 bizarre, unbelievable and surprisingly well-documented stories from history — including the Hoxne Hoard, Thomas Fitzpatrick’s Manhattan landings, the strange origin of Play-Doh, the fake Paris of World War I, the Lobster War, the disputed invention of the ice cream cone, Han van Meegeren’s fake Vermeers, the accidental invention of the Popsicle, the Jaquet-Droz automata, the Kavanagh Building, Owney the postal dog, the Great Stork Derby, Old Rip the horned lizard, the Republic of New Atlantis, and Grandma Gatewood’s Appalachian Trail journey.

Some of these stories are exactly as unbelievable as they sound. Others became cleaner and stranger as they were retold. Whenever the popular version goes beyond what the evidence supports, we separate the documented history from the legend.

If you enjoy strange history, incredible true stories, forgotten historical events, bizarre real events and documentaries about things that sound fake but are actually true, subscribe for more.

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