I referred to this site several weeks ago in a post discussing the phenomenon of "synthetic news." I described this as fake news stories backed up with just enough credibility and real facts to make it difficult to find the lie wrapped up in truth.

This site, which is apparently designed to publicize some future movie, is not the best example, because there is a prominent disclaimer at the bottom, and items like the picture of Clint Eastwood are something of a giveaway.

Still, to someone hard over on the concept of Strange Beings from Space and Great Conspiracies, something like this might be sucked up without close examination. Or maybe even my normal people. This site has shown up as a link on several serious archeological pages.

Look at some of the links at the bottom of the page, pertaining to the monuments in Washington. As far as I know, all the references to an e-book about the mysterious secrets of the monuments and the strange Masonic patterns of the memorial stones at the Washington Monument are totally fictional, but the links to the monument information, and the actual monument stones are real, linked in from the National Park Service. But to prove this to myself, I had to look up the original link.

I've explored dozens of links on this fascinating site. About half the stuff on this site is real and true. The other half is total bullshit. There is no easy way to tell in many cases which is which without painstakingly cross-referencing the links. And the authors of this site are not trying to really fool us! What would it be like if they were?

I am really tempted to throw some of these phony links, this little beauty in particular, onto the MSNBC board and see how many fish swallow the hook whole.

Internet surfers, be careful out there. The waters are full of sharks.