Social media is a place where not everything that is seen is real and there are some things which are presented with false claims. Recently a picture is going viral which is reality but what is being claimed with it is so strange that some are calling it creatures from other planets and some are ghosts. This picture is of strange animals spotted walking on beach which look like giant spiders.
According to the report of the New York Post, 62-year-old farmer Jan Vorster recently took some pictures on the beach of his hometown, Still Bay, Western Cape, South Africa. He did not think that his photos would become so popular that they would go viral. Some other people understood it to be something else in the picture, after which everyone started getting scared of the picture.
Plants are present on the beach which looks like giant spiders or alien-like creatures. (Photo: Facebook/Myrtle Philbeck)
people mistook aloe vera plant for giant spider
Let us tell you what is the whole matter. Jain saw many dead plants of aloe vera (aloe vera plants looks like giant spider) on the beach. Aloe vera is a very beneficial plant. But when Jain saw it in this condition, he thought of making people aware of climate change and saving trees, and took photographs of this plant. They thought that people would understand the importance of saving trees and plants after seeing this, but something else happened!
Photo started going viral on social media with false claim
The picture went viral as soon as it was posted on Facebook. He had posted it on a Facebook group related to South Africa, but people started sharing it on other groups and channels as well. Posting the photo, Facebook user Myrtle Philbeck wrote – Sea spiders going like the sea. People spread so many rumors that some called it an alien and some called it a ghost. Some called them children of sea monsters, while others called them giant spiders. The picture shared on Facebook has been shared more than 53 thousand times. One said that he has to know where this scene is because he has to live several kilometers away from that place.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : December 16, 2022, 08:24 IST
