Hurricane Ike in the Gulf of Mexico closing in on the Texas coast on September 10, 2008 (© NASA/AP)

It's very cool, but this is Hurricane Ike as seen from the International Space Station in 2008.

Video still from 'Day After Tomorrow' (@Lauren_LaPointe via Twitter)

Really? We need to tell you this still from "The Day After Tomorrow" is totally fake?

Soldiers stand guard in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during storm in September 2012 (@OMGFacts via Twitter)

This image of guards at the Tomb of the Unkown Soldier is real, but it was taken during a storm back in September.

Clouds over New York (@maxzchua via Twitter)

Not Sandy, just a very cool shot of a storm over the George Washington Bridge in New York.

Manhattan skyline from 2011 Wall Street Journal post (@J7mster via Twitter)

While this pic is real, it was taken in 2011 as a strong thunderstorm moved into Manhattan.

The Statue of Liberty & a supercell thunderstorm from 2004 (via Reddit.com)

This never happened ... It's all a figment of Photoshop's very vivid imagination.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is Hurricane Isabel ... not Sandy.

German art installation 'Flooded McDonald's' (via buzzfeed.com)

While Sandy is causing a lot of flooding, this pic is from an art installation titled "Flooded McDonald's."

Fake photo of a shark swimming down a Puerto Rican street (via Reddit.com)

This pic wasn't real when it was purported to show a shark swimming down a Puerto Rico street following Hurricane Irene ... and it's still not.

Fake image of a shark swimming in N.J. (Credit: https://www.facebook.com/KevinPMcCarty)

Another fake shark "sighting," this time in Brigantine, N.J.

Don't let these fake photos of Hurricane Sandy fool you

10/29/2012

Thanks to Twitter and other social media outlets, it's easier than ever to share dramatic pictures from Hurricane Sandy as it begins to pummel the East Coast. Only problem is, many of the pics making the rounds are entirely fake. We gathered some of the most glaring examples of purportedly "real" Sandy viral photos that are, sadly, just about as authentic as an English boarding school for young wizards in wire glasses. Do yourself a favor and check out our gallery before you tweet out that next "incredible" pic.

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