Skeptoid #308: Picnic at Hanging Rock

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Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2012

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Although the book and movie convinced many that this story actually happened, it is purely a fictional invention.

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0:00.0	What happens when a fictional novel gains just that little extra bit of traction and
0:08.5	convinces some people that it has a kernel of truth in it?
0:12.2	And then a movie gets made which presents it as being based on actual events.
0:16.5	And suddenly, nearly everyone who knows the story believes it was actual, true history.
0:22.8	Welcome to the 1967 Australian novel, Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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1:20.6	I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, Picnic at Hanging Rock.
1:26.7	The year was 1900, the place southeast of Australia.
1:30.5	A class of young women from a private boarding school, along with several shaperones, visited
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