Do real leaked images show satanic rituals taking place on Epstein Island with Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates, the Clintons, and Stephen Hawking? No, that's not true: Google's SynthID detection tool found a watermark indicating each of the four images in a 12-second video was made or edited with Google AI. Hive Moderation's AI detection tool rated one image 99.6% likely to be AI-generated and the other three 99.9% likely.
The video appeared in a post (archived here) by the @ExposingEvil704 account on X on Oct. 16, 2026. It read:
Leaked images from satanic rituals on Epstein Island...
Wake up people...
The world is run by a Luciferian pedo death-cult! 🍕👹🤮⚖️
This is what a screenshot of the video in the post looked like at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @ExposingEvil704 on X.)
The video is 12 seconds long and contains four still images. Lead Stories made a screenshot of each image and uploaded them individually to two platforms with detection tools where all of the images were found to be AI-generated.
SynthID is a digital watermark developed by Google DeepMind which is invisible to the human eye. The detection tool at SynthID.com can detect the watermarks in content made by SynthID partner platforms: Nvidia, OpenAI, Google and Kakao. All of the images returned with this result:
SynthID was detected This media was made or edited with Google AI Please note that this media may have been edited further since then.
The Hive Moderation AI-Generated Content Detection tool rated each image as likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content (pictured below). Three images received a rating of 99.9% likely, and the one with the bonfire got a rating of 99.6% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content.
(Image source: Lead Stories composite with screenshots from Hive Moderation.)
The first image (screenshot above) has the likenesses of Jeffrey Epstein, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Bill Gates in a dungeon-like room. This is the only image of the four to have a digital datestamp, OCT 26 '19 23:47. There are three goats in the background and additional people wearing robes. There appear to be three human bodies on the floor wrapped in sheets and tied with rope. The Hive reading of 99.9% is archived here and the SynthID reading is archived here.
The second image (pictured below) shows the same group posing for a selfie with the goats and a shrouded figure on an altar in the background. The Hive reading of 99.9% is archived here; the SynthID finding is archived here.
(Image source: post by @ExposingEvil704 on X.)
The third image shows an outdoor scene with bonfires in the background and a large group of people in red robes. The Hive reading of 99.6% is archived here; the SynthID finding is archived here.
(Image source: post by @ExposingEvil704 on X.)
The final image shows the likeness of Stephen Hawking in a power wheelchair wearing a hooded red robe. In the background stand four women wearing goat head masks and white dresses. The Hive reading of 99.9% is archived here and the SynthID finding is archived here. The image is AI-generated. The post implies the photos were taken the same night in October 2019 -- but Stephen Hawking had died more than a year earlier, on March 14, 2018 (archived here).
(Image source: post by @ExposingEvil704 on X.)
Lead Stories also searched the Epstein Library (archived here), the only publicly searchable database of Epstein-related files, for any reference to the events shown in these images. The search returned no matches, and Google found no related reports from established media outlets (archived here).
