Beringer's Lying Stones: In 1725, professor Johann Beringer was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Germany's University of Würzburg. Also, he was apparently an insufferable coworker, which is why two of his colleagues decided to mess with him by planting fake fossils in places Beringer was known to dig. ...And we're not talking about one or two false fossils, here. We're talking about thousands of stones, planted over a series of months, bearing images of plants, animals, Hebrew symbols, religious iconography...you name it.When Beringer was about to publish a book on his findings, his colleagues finally came clean and admitted the prank, but by then it was too late. He figured they were just a couple of haters and went ahead with the book anyway. In the end, it would ruin all three of their careers.