Ice scream

This photo is shared with the following captions:

  • Frozen Irtysh river in Russia
  • Scream ghost face appears in a Russian river
  • Edvard Much’s horrifying painting appears in a Siberian river
  • Ice art

The image is a photoshopped hoax that was originally posted in a Russian social media site VKontakte. Someone pretending to be a photographer altered the original image and posted it online. It went viral.

Russian fake busters debunked this hoax in January 2016. One example in VKontakte.

Below is the unaltered image. Dan Evon found the source of the original photo: it was taken by Andrei Kudryavtsev in Omsk.

Credit: Andrei Kudryavtsev

Leave a Reply

Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.