Wildest Rumors & Hoaxes of September 11

Little more than a week after the twin towers fell, the above image began arriving in people's inboxes attached to an email claiming it was the last tourist photo ever taken atop the World Trade Center. The man in the picture looked like a real tourist, all right, but nothing else about the scenario added up: his expression was too oblivious, the photographer's hand too steady, the timing of the snapshot too serendipitous to be true.

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• 'WTC Surfer' Rode the Rubble Down from the 82nd Floor and Survived
• The Prophetic Album Cover
• The Wingdings Prophecy
• 9/11 Was an Inside Job