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Example: [Collected via email, January 2015] Origins: On 24 January 2015, the web site ViralNova published a seemingly innocent photograph of a young woman sitting on her bed. The image was accompanied by a supposed backstory, republished below, as well instructions for the viewer to search for something askew (Hint: The corner of a man's face can be seen between the mattress and the bed frame): However, this photograph has been circulating around the Internet accompanied by a number of different explanations and backstories, including versions posted to the Chinese-language sites Jdduanzi and Liuxing with a slightly different story: One common element to nearly all repostings of this image is that the viewer is instructed to search for the man hiding under the bed: The stories that are most commonly circulated in tandem with this photograph are almost certainly false, given that no one has turned up any official report or news story linking this image to a real-life divorce and/or murder, the narratives attached to the image have changed several times over, and the scenario pictured here (i.e., a young girl in a twin bed) is not one that generally corresponds to a depiction of a married woman. Most likely this is just an innocent photograph of teenage girl which someone has digitally manipulated to add a peering face, or perhaps a picture of a girl who was being pranked by some friends, with one of those friends having a camera at the ready to record the moments just before and after a hidden lurker popped up to scare the daylights out of her. We haven't been able to verify if yet, but a Facebook poster who asserts she is related to the girl in the picture has stated that the photograph was indeed a prank: >
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