Golden Eagle Snatches Child In A Park Hoax Seen By Millions

This video was seen by millions of people,it was later found out to be a very clever hoax.Not only did the video look real,there was a bit of acting done by the camera man as well,making it seem even more authentic as it fooled the public.The video shows A golden eagle in Canada swooping down and grabbing a child as it struggles to lift him up off the ground and drops him a few moments later.Then as it turns out the bird was not a golden eagle and not one to be found in Canada.

According to Discovery.com [A Montreal 3-D animation school, Centre NAD, fessed up to the hoax.

In a statement, the school proudly noted, “The 'Golden Eagle Snatches Kid' video, uploaded to YouTube on the evening of December 18, was made by Normand Archambault, Loïc Mireault and Félix Marquis-Poulin, students at Centre NAD, in the production simulation workshop class of the Bachelors degree in 3D Animation and Digital Design....Both the eagle and the kid were created in 3D animation and integrated in to the film afterwards. The video has already received more than 1,200,000 views on YouTube and has been mentioned by dozens of media in Canada and abroad.”

The Centre NAD also noted that this was not the first time that a video produced by their students had fooled the public: “Hoaxes produced in this class have already garnered attention, amongst others a video of a penguin having escaped the Montreal Biodôme.”]