Starting from the morning of September 9, a frightening post suddenly appeared on some online forums: "A man-eating fish suddenly appeared in Suining Qing'an Reservoir." For a while, "Suining caught The news that a catfish lives in a man-eating house went viral on the Internet. What is the truth? Our reporter investigated this.
The post contains pictures, texts, horror and blood.
In a forum in Xici Hutong, a netizen named "Falling in Love with Non-Cake Rain" posted a post titled "Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province" A post about a human-eating fish found in the Qing'an Reservoir in the city. The post was accompanied by seven extremely bloody pictures, showing a group of people dissecting a large fish known as the "Tangmao".
The post said, "A man-eating fish suddenly appeared in the Qing'an Reservoir in Suining County, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Every year, several people drowned for no apparent reason. During the summer vacation, a son of a high-ranking official was with his friends. He drowned while swimming in the reservoir, only to discover this shocking secret! It turned out to be a man-eating fish that was more than 3 meters long and had a head that was more than 1 meter wide! After slaughtering the fish, a surprising discovery was made: there was a human skeleton in its belly! !..."
The post then recorded in detail the discovery and capture of this man-eating pond fish, "...but the fish was very cunning, and finally the armed police came up with a good idea and blocked the reservoir. No one is allowed to go into the water to disturb the water, and no food is allowed to be put in the water. Live chickens are used instead. The piranha can't stand the hunger and is finally attracted by the live chickens. It comes out of the water to suck the live chickens. The armed police are waiting nearby. When they saw something strange in the water, they fired a gun into the water in time. The piranha hit several vital points and kept struggling on the water surface. The armed police immediately cast the net and pulled it to the shore. "Director Yang of Qing'an Reservoir: The largest fish in the reservoir is gone. More than 30 kilograms
"Not to mention such a big fish, the largest fish in the reservoir does not exceed 30 kilograms." After hearing the reporter's inquiry, Director Yang of the Qing'an Reservoir Management Office said that they also After learning about this post circulating on the Internet, "This is purely a rumor. The reservoir recently underwent maintenance, and more than a hundred fish were caught at that time, all of which were small fish."
Director Yang also introduced Swimming is prohibited in their reservoir. The pond turtle mentioned in the post is actually a catfish. Catfish belongs to the catfish family, but the "tank turtle" has no beards at all. Director Yang finally said that they would consider reporting the matter to the police. It’s the whale shark being dissected in the Beihai Shellfish and Coral Museum
The earliest source of this picture is the "Beihai 365 website", and the shooting time was "2006·5·23", but it claimed that "Suining Qing'an Reservoir eats mermaids" This key information has been cropped out of the post image.
The correct facts about this news are: On the afternoon of May 23, 2006, the North Sea Shellfish and Coral Museum dissected a whale shark and prepared to make it into a specimen. The dissection of the whale shark was arranged in the open space in front of the coral museum, attracting many people to watch. This photo has been used in "piranha-eating" incidents all over the Internet
Since the relevant departments of Suining County have denied this incident, how did the rumors about the "man-eating pond fish" in Qing'an Reservoir come out? ? According to the instructions of netizens on the forum, the reporter tried to enter "man-eating pond fish" into Baidu to query, and the results were surprising. There were as many as 33,400 items that met the search criteria, and those anatomy pictures were also revealed through searches by netizens.
Based on the "piranha" incidents with such anatomy pictures that have gone viral on the Internet in the past two years, the reporter found that the people who spread the rumors only changed some of the place names and character backgrounds, such as: " "Man-eating turtles were found in Furongzhang Reservoir in Huadu", "Man-eating turtles were found in Tangxi Reservoir in Raoping", "Man-eating turtles were found in Enping Xikeng Reservoir"... Now, it has become "Suiningqing" A man-eating turtle appears in An Reservoir." The characters involved have also evolved from migrant workers to "children of high-ranking officials" who are more eye-catching. The photos used online are all the same. Only some have been cropped.
At this point, the truth about "the surprising appearance of a man-eating fish in Suining Qing'an Reservoir" has been revealed.