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The handle claimed that the incident occurred in Goa.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Take a look at this man&#8217;s innovative way to make people stay indoors in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Goa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Goa<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/usergeneratedcontent?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#usergeneratedcontent<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/stayhomestaysafe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#stayhomestaysafe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#coronavirus<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lockdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lockdown<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N03Ox9d3dQ\">pic.twitter.com\/N03Ox9d3dQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JioNews (@JioNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JioNews\/status\/1244165017374605313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goanewshub\/status\/1243920114317025280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Goa News Hub<\/em><\/a>, which calls itself as the &#8220;News portal of Goans, for Goans, by Goans&#8221;, was one of the earliest to tweet the video on March 28. The handle said, &#8220;And this stunt on Amona bridge is going viral. More effective than lathis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62393\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/2020-03-29-23_55_54-Settings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/2020-03-29-23_55_54-Settings.jpg 598w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/2020-03-29-23_55_54-Settings-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Fact-check<\/h4>\n<p>Alt News broke the video into multiple frames using the digital verification tool InVid. We then performed a Google reverse image search of one of the keyframes and found that the video is almost one-year-old. We located an Indonesian Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BeritaViralKomediTerkini\/posts\/657293498052183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a> where the same video was posted on May 14, 2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BeritaViralKomediTerkini\/videos\/333548130669043\/\" data-width=\"350\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/BeritaViralKomediTerkini\/videos\/333548130669043\/\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/BeritaViralKomediTerkini\/videos\/333548130669043\/\">Prank Pocong&#8230; Sampek manjat jembatan hahaa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prank Pocong&#8230; Sampek manjat jembatan hahaa<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BeritaViralKomediTerkini\/\">Berita Viral &amp; Komedi Terkini<\/a> on Monday, 13 May 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BeritaViralKomediTerkini\/posts\/657293498052183\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<p>Indonesian news website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.viva.co.id\/vbuzz\/trending\/1148418-ditakut-takuti-pocong-pria-ini-nekat-panjat-jembatan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Viva<\/em><\/a> had also published an article on the video on May 13, 2019. As per the report, a man shrouded as a corpse pretending to be the Indonesian ghost &#8220;pocong&#8221; sitting on a road shoulder while a person records the video. The article cited an Instagram post by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parodiviral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>parodiviral<\/em><\/a>, which now ceases to exist.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/2020-03-30-02_13_16-Frightened-by-Pocong-this-man-is-desperate-to-climb-a-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1014\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/2020-03-30-02_13_16-Frightened-by-Pocong-this-man-is-desperate-to-climb-a-bridge.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/2020-03-30-02_13_16-Frightened-by-Pocong-this-man-is-desperate-to-climb-a-bridge-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/2020-03-30-02_13_16-Frightened-by-Pocong-this-man-is-desperate-to-climb-a-bridge-768x604.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/2020-03-30-02_13_16-Frightened-by-Pocong-this-man-is-desperate-to-climb-a-bridge-990x779.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alt News was then able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oVfZugPiNY8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trace<\/a> the video back to May 11, 2019, on YouTube. It was posted by a YouTube vlogger named Sutan Sikumbang. The &#8216;about us&#8217; section of the channel says that he makes &#8220;video chat prank&#8221;. We found a remark by Sutan posted in the comments section which confirmed that the video is from Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oVfZugPiNY8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oVfZugPiNY8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He wrote, &#8220;Try listening to it, he is using our special Minang language, his location in Padang Pariaman district is a village name Sunar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62396\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/2020-03-30-02_30_14-1191-PrankLucu-Prank-Pocong-di-jembatan-Tu-org-Malah-manjat-jembatan-\ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude05-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1083\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/2020-03-30-02_30_14-1191-PrankLucu-Prank-Pocong-di-jembatan-Tu-org-Malah-manjat-jembatan-\ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude05-.png 1083w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/2020-03-30-02_30_14-1191-PrankLucu-Prank-Pocong-di-jembatan-Tu-org-Malah-manjat-jembatan-\ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude05--300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/2020-03-30-02_30_14-1191-PrankLucu-Prank-Pocong-di-jembatan-Tu-org-Malah-manjat-jembatan-\ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude05--1024x454.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/2020-03-30-02_30_14-1191-PrankLucu-Prank-Pocong-di-jembatan-Tu-org-Malah-manjat-jembatan-\ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude05--768x340.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/2020-03-30-02_30_14-1191-PrankLucu-Prank-Pocong-di-jembatan-Tu-org-Malah-manjat-jembatan-\ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude05--990x439.png 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1083px) 100vw, 1083px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alt News couldn&#8217;t independently verify the location and context of this video. Nonetheless, it is certain that the video is old and was viral in Indonesia at least ten months ago.<\/p>\n<h4><em>India Today, ANI<\/em> editor fall for the prank video, later clarify<\/h4>\n<p><em>India Today&#8217;s<\/em> official Twitter handle had <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndiaToday\/status\/1244302529422184449?s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted the video<\/a> on March 29 with the same claim that a man was scaring people off in Goa to keep them indoors. However, the channel clarified 12 hours later that the clip represents a 2019 prank in Indonesia. While the video garnered 288 retweets, it is noteworthy that the correction tweet has only 10 retweets. The video was also tweeted by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aajtak\/status\/1244162950627078145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaj Tak<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>India Today\u00a0<\/em>anchor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rahulkanwal\/status\/1244256602825220096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rahul Kanwal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-62408 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/31fea1b3-f8b1-429e-9093-7fde880b25b2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/31fea1b3-f8b1-429e-9093-7fde880b25b2.png 592w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/31fea1b3-f8b1-429e-9093-7fde880b25b2-246x300.png 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Editor of news agency <em>ANI<\/em> Smita Prakash <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smitaprakash\/status\/1244114639136477185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> the video at least three hours before <em>India Today<\/em>. She too clarified later that the clip was neither shot in Goa nor during COVID-19 lockdown. However, while her original tweet has 2,600 retweets, the clarification tweet has garnered only six retweets so far.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-62409 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/download-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/download-1-1.png 446w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/download-1-1-182x300.png 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A 10-month-old and unrelated video most likely from Indonesia was shared as an &#8220;innovative&#8221; method used in Goa to keep people inside their homes during the 21-day lockdown across the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of a person scaring bikers on the road was tweeted by Jio News\u00a0on March 29 suggesting that this was an &#8220;innovative way to make people stay indoors&#8221; during the lockdown imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The handle claimed that the incident occurred in Goa. 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