On a recent trip to the beach in Dublin, three men named Charlie Wallace, Peter McEvoy and Chris Flood dug a hole. It’s a great hole — good size, lots of space for activities, etc. When they were done, they left the hole where it was. Soon after, a local astronomer came upon it, dragging a whole news crew along with him.


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“It’s a huge mysterious crater that looks out of this world, but is it?” asks the news reporter (hint: it’s not).



The man then proceeds to very excitedly explain the hole. “Only about a month ago I was watching a documentary from NASA on exactly what you’re looking at behind you, so when I looked at it and saw how uniform it is, I knew immediately that what I was looking at is an impact site.”


Sure, man. Sure.


There’s a whole bunch of “evidence” to bolster the man’s theory. First, the hole itself. It’s big. Second, a rock inside the hole. “As you can tell here, there’s a scorch mark on this side here, so that would have been at the angle that it came down at,” the man says. “It is weighty. I’m not sure of its composition, but we’re definitely going to have to find out.”


Of course, none of this was true, as the news crew would later admit via its Twitter feed.



The news reporter herself even got in on the action.



So the crater wasn’t a crater after all. But then again, maybe that’s just what the powers that be want us to think.