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Example: [Collected via e-mail, October 2015] Origins: On 1 November 2015, the web site Breaking 13 News published an article reporting that 53 people had been killed during a hatchet massacre aboard the retired Queen Mary (now a floating hotel) in Long Beach, California:On Sunday morning, aboard the Queen Mary ship in Long Beach California, a graphic scene emerged as police did their best to get an accurate body count. At 2:33 AM, a guest aboard the ship approached the bartender at the Observation Bar dazed and confused. Please, go down the hallway and see if you saw what I saw. It's a massacre, a complete massacre, said Paul Brown, a hotel guest on the ship. The bartender phoned security, and followed the man's instructions. What they found down the hallway were 32 open room doors with trails of blood, so much blood that it was unlike anything detectives had seen before. 58 blood covered corpses awaited the police upon their arrival at the crime scene. While it's true that an event called Dark Harbor is held on Halloween aboard the Queen Mary, this year's annual haunted ship event did not result in 53 deaths. If such a tragic event had occurred it would have been splashed across the front page of multiple major newspapers, but the only web site to mention this alleged hatchet massacre was the disreputable Breaking 13 News, a fake news site that imitates a local television news outlet. Breaking 13 News has already re-purposed fake news stories about fast food restaurants selling marijuana and a woman being arrested for masturbating in a department store.
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