Here's your daily dose of creepy. Last week a viral video popped up that people went nuts over. It showed Michael Jackson getting out of the coroner's van he was in after being declared dead. The video has now been officially deemed as a hoax. It was created as a social experiment to see what people would believe. Because nothing says, "Let's insult the tragic death of a national treasure by playing on people's hopes and fears," better than a Youtube experiment.

Oh, the people who created it were German? Well, that explains everything. F&*k the Germans.

The video was posted by RTL on YouTube for a single day a week ago and received 880,000 hits. The broadcaster has since removed the video from YouTube, but it has been picked up by other Web sites around the world.

"We wanted to show how easily users can be manipulated on the Internet with hoax videos," spokesman Heike Schultz of Cologne-based RTL told The Associated Press. "Therefore, we created this video of Michael Jackson being alive, even though everybody knows by now that he is dead and the response was breathtaking."

Jackson died June 25 in Los Angeles.

The video, posted under an "anonymous source", shows a coroner's van entering what seems like a parking garage and the King of Pop getting out of the back with another person. The lighting is bad, the sound muffled and the footage appears amateurish.

"Unfortunately, many people believed it was true," Schultz said. "Even though we tried to create the video in a way that every normal user can see right away that it is a fake."

The RTL spokesman said some Jackson fans were upset by the German broadcaster's actions.

"We didn't want to dishonor Michael Jackson, but we needed a strong name to get this experiment going," Schultz said. "Had we used Britney Spears, then the fans of Britney would have complained."

I don't know, killing Britney now might be the only way to get her dignity back. I mean, look at Marlyn Monroe. A little know fact is that, right before she died, Marlyn started to only wear ballerina outfits, died her hair bright green and demanded everyone call her General Electric. Now, after dying young, she's a legend. Just something to think about Britney, just something to think about.

ps. Did you believe that crap about Marlyn Monroe? Holy hell, people on the Internet will believe anything! Seriously though, it's true...Wait, hold on, ok I changed her Wikipedia page. Now it's true.