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Since at least 2021, an online advertisement has claimed: Woman Leaves House to Neighbour, His Mouth Falls Open When He Sees What's Inside. The picture shows a red circle on a window. We found the same sort of story in a YouTube video titled: 96 Year Old Woman Donates Her House To A Neighbor Her Heart Drops When She Went Inside. However, this is all very misleading. The ad, hosted by the Taboola advertising network, likely appeared alongside legitimate news stories on websites for news organizations. This perhaps gave the impression to readers that it was a genuine account of a remarkable moment. We clicked the ad. It led to a 50-page slideshow article on a website named Mister Story. The story was about a 96-year-old woman named Elly. The first page read as follows, including the last part which was bolded by the author: In the story, Elly fractures her hip, and her family urges her to move into a retirement home near them. She decides to leave her house to a homeless man named Steven, who eventually finds $15,000 in cash inside the dwelling. Elly later tells him the money is to repay him for his kindness and help. In the end, she dies in the retirement home. No last names were provided anywhere in the tale. While this is a nice story, it's also completely made up. We found a disclaimer on the 50th page of the slideshow article that said the story is for entertainment purposes: In other words, the Woman Leaves House to Neighbour story was simply a work of fiction, something that wasn't revealed to readers unless they clicked Next Page around 50 times.
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