A video being shared on social media (here, here, and here) shows people riding in a boat-shaped vehicle. It is being shared with the claim that these individuals are travelling to the 2025 Prayagraj Mahakumbh in Kaliyug’s Pushpak Viman. Let’s verify the truth behind the video in this article.
Claim: The video shows people travelling to the 2025 Prayagraj Mahakumbh in a boat-shaped vehicle called Kaliyug’s Pushpak Viman.
Fact: The viral video originates from Thailand. Several Thai users shared it on social media in November 2024, predating the 2025 Prayagraj Mahakumbh. A news article confirmed the viral video is of Thai origin. The same video was also identified as Thai on Newsflare, a platform for verified user-generated content. Additionally, Shutterstock features images of the vehicle, attributed to Thailand, with a signboard showing “Kamphaeng Phet,” a province in Thailand. The viral video is unrelated to India. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
To verify the claim, we performed a Google search using the keywords “devotees arrived in 2025 Prayagraj Mahakumbh in a boat-shaped vehicle and Kalyug Pushpak Viman.” No such reports were found.
We then conducted a reverse image search of the keyframes from the viral video which led us to an Instagram post (archived) dated 05 November 2024, featuring the same video. The caption, translated from Thai to English, reads: “Where are you rushing off to, Luang Pho? #funnyclip #funny #ThaisAreFunnyPeople.” The post also displayed a watermark of the TikTok user ID @b_lawan_klanthong.
We searched for the TikTok account @b_lawan_klanthong and found the same video posted by the user with a Thai caption on 05 November 2024.
To gather more information about the viral video, we conducted a relevant Google search and found a news article (archived) that the video was from Thailand. We also found the same video on Newsflare (archived), a website that shares verified user-generated video content, which was also identified as being from Thailand.
In further investigation, we found additional pictures of this vehicle on Shutterstock, all claimed to be from Thailand. One of these pictures features a signboard with “Kamphaeng Phet” written on it. A quick search revealed that Kamphaeng Phet is a province located in Thailand.
To sum up, an old video of people riding a boat-shaped vehicle from Thailand is falsely shared as footage of people travelling to the 2025 Prayagraj Maha Kumbh.
