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Dihydrogen monoxide parody (2,106 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

water was safe. Sense and reference "April Fool's Day, 1983". Museum of Hoaxes. Archived from the original on April 18, 2001. Retrieved November 25, 2018

Paul is dead (6,468 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

psychology and communications during the 1970s. McCartney parodied the hoax with the title and cover art of his 1993 live album, Paul Is Live. The legend

Sokal affair (3,767 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Sokal affair, additionally known as the Sokal hoax, was a demonstrative scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University

Piltdown Man (5,204 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

remains were still broadly accepted for many years, and the falsity of the hoax was only definitively demonstrated in 1953. An extensive scientific review

Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident (2,699 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In May 2005, an unregistered editor created a hoax Wikipedia article about journalist John Seigenthaler. The article falsely stated that Seigenthaler had

Prank call (2,981 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A prank call (also known as a crank call, a hoax call, or a goof call) is a telephone call intended by the caller as a practical joke played on the person

Southern Television broadcast interruption (1,753 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

carry out such a hoax would take "a considerable amount of technical know-how" and a spokesman for Southern Television confirmed: "A hoaxer jammed our transmitter

Jar'Edo Wens hoax (695 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2014 and deleted in March 2015. At the time, it was the longest-lasting hoax article discovered in the history of Wikipedia. The "Jar'Edo Wens" article

Comic relief (703 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Look up comic relief in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character, scene, or witty dialogue in an otherwise

Zhemao hoaxes (1,279 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Zhemao hoaxes were over 200 interconnected Wikipedia articles about falsified aspects of medieval Russian history written from 2012 to 2022 by Zhemao

Maury Island incident (1,456 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

events had occurred on June 21, 1947. The incident is widely regarded as a hoax, even by believers of flying saucers and UFOs. On August 1, two Air Force

Bomb threat (4,042 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

officials to cancel or postpone planned activities such as exams. A so-called "hoax device" may be deployed in lieu of a real bomb. They are designed to make

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories (5,411 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

massacre was real. Some conspiracy theorists claim that the shooting was a hoax and a false flag operation staged by the United States government. Others

Aztec, New Mexico crashed saucer hoax (1,491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Aztec, New Mexico, UFO hoax (sometimes known as the "other Roswell") was a flying saucer crash alleged to have happened in 1948 in Aztec, New Mexico

Franklin child prostitution ring allegations (1,172 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that the allegations were unfounded and the ring was a "carefully crafted hoax." In 1988, state and federal authorities began looking into allegations that

1967 British flying saucer hoax (521 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1967 British flying saucer hoax was originally thought to be the unidentified landing of six 'spaceships' that occurred across Southern England on

Death hoax (1,333 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A death hoax is a deliberate report of someone's death that is later revealed to be untrue. In some cases, it might be because the person has intentionally

Central Park Zoo (8,216 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A famous hoax regarding the zoo is known as the Central Park Zoo escape and the Central Park menagerie scare of 1874.: 534 It was a hoax perpetrated

Death of Michael Jackson (11,449 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On June 25, 2009, the American singer Michael Jackson died of acute propofol intoxication in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 50. His personal physician

Bosnian pyramid claims (3,647 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Archaeologists has condemned the so-called "Bosnian pyramids" as a "cruel hoax"; along with various other scholars they are also concerned about damage

Well to Hell (916 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

out of it before blazing a trail across the Russian sky. To perpetuate his hoax, Rendalen deliberately mistranslated a trivial Norwegian article about a

Cottingley Fairies (4,564 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fairies painted by Elsie, and a nine-page letter from Elsie admitting to the hoax. The glass photographic plates were bought for £6,000 by an unnamed buyer

Litecoin (1,524 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Litecoin to increase by around 30%, before the press release was revealed as a hoax. In May 2022, MWEB (Mimblewimble Extension Blocks) upgrade was activated

Jussie Smollett (3,676 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

totaling $130,105.15, of overtime authorities expended investigating the hoax. In November 2019, Smollett filed a countersuit against the city of Chicago

Suicide of Megan Meier (3,200 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Grills, an 18-year-old employee of Lori. Lori and several others ran the hoaxed account. Witnesses testified that the women intended to use Meier's messages

Splitting of the Moon (1,872 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Encyclopædia Britannica Online, p. 13 "Moon Split Miracle Chain Letter". Hoax Slayer. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Soora, Gayathri (14

Splitting of the Moon (1,872 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Encyclopædia Britannica Online, p. 13 "Moon Split Miracle Chain Letter". Hoax Slayer. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Soora, Gayathri (14

Pringles (3,077 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

no name, and the name originated with a Wikipedia hoax; in 2006, an editor inserted the then-hoax "Julius" into the Pringles Wikipedia article, which

Roswell incident (11,600 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

saucer hoax. Just days after stories of the Roswell "flying disc", a widely reported crashed disc from Twin Falls, Idaho, was found to be a hoax created

Sick baby hoax (311 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A sick baby hoax is a confidence trick where a person claims, often on a website, that they have an ill child (or sometimes a pet) and are struggling to

Spurious languages (2,686 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

named after places or ethnicities. Some alleged languages turn out to be hoaxes, such as the Kukurá language of Brazil or the Taensa language of Louisiana

Dreadnought hoax (2,367 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Dreadnought hoax was a practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole in 1910. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the battleship

Parkgate, County Antrim (204 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Parkgate is a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies at the foot of Donegore Hill, near the Six Mile Water. It is about midway between

List of UFO-related hoaxes (923 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Many hoaxes related to the study of unidentified flying objects have been perpetrated. For April Fool's Day 1897, two practical jokers in Omaha, Nebraska

Ivar's (706 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

turned out to be a hoax. The signs were sunk earlier in 2009, and local historian Paul Dorpat had deliberately furthered the hoax. Dorpat, of HistoryLink

The Hoax of the Twentieth Century (700 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry is a book by Northwestern University electrical engineering

Angry Penguins (1,183 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Tucker. In 1944, Angry Penguins became the subject of a famous literary hoax perpetrated by anti-modernist poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart. The

Hoax Slayer (557 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hoax Slayer (stylized as Hoax-Slayer) was a fact-checking website established in 2003 by Brett Christensen, dedicated to critically analyzing the veracity

List of prematurely reported obituaries (36,323 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2012, and around one year later, a death hoax was that he committed suicide after being turned down. These hoaxes recirculated online in 2016, 2017 and 2018

The Triple Hoax (333 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Triple Hoax is the 57th book in the Nancy Drew Mystery Series. It was the first paperback Nancy Drew produced by Simon & Schuster under the Wanderer

Italo Svevo (1,793 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl. Una burla riuscita (1926). A Perfect Hoax, trans. J. G. Nichols (2003). Short story collections La novella del buon

Tom Collins (2,150 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

conversation about the nonexistent Tom Collins was a proven hoax of exposure. In The Great Tom Collins hoax of 1874, as it became known, the speaker would encourage

Rendlesham Forest incident (3,639 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

occurrence. Conrad also suggested that the entire incident might have been a hoax. Two officers from the Suffolk Constabulary were called to the scene on the

Hoax (book) (941 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth is a nonfiction book by American journalist Brian Stelter, former CNN chief media correspondent

John McWhorter (3,424 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

vocal critic of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. In his 2014 book The Language Hoax, he argues that, although language influences thought in an "infinitesimal

David Horowitz (5,253 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Movement is Destroying America. (Regnery, 2021) I Can't Breathe: How a Racial Hoax is Killing America. (Regnery, 2021) Final Battle: The Next Election Could

Ern Malley hoax (3,623 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Ern Malley hoax, also called the Ern Malley affair, is Australia's most famous literary hoax. Its name derives from Ernest Lalor "Ern" Malley, a fictitious

Men in black (1,098 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1960s, at age 18, he cooperated when Gray Barker urged him to develop a hoax—which Barker subsequently published—about what Barker called "blackmen",

Sidd Finch (1,264 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fictional baseball player, the subject of the notorious April Fools' Day hoax article "The Curious Case of Sidd Finch" written by George Plimpton and first

Kalergi Plan (1,019 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

newspaper Linkiesta investigated the conspiracy theory and described it as a hoax which is comparable to the fabricated antisemitic document The Protocols

Belo Vale (114 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cordeiro was entirely made up of single women, but this has been dismissed as a hoax by BBC Brazil. List of municipalities in Minas Gerais Chako Paul City IBGE

The Yes Men (5,133 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Austria. Since this time, the Yes Men have continued performing large-scale hoaxes, in what they describe as a collaborative effort with journalists to help

Bogdanov affair (7,749 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

work. Rumors spread on Usenet newsgroups that their work was a deliberate hoax intended to target weaknesses in the peer review system that physics journals

Tawana Brawley rape allegations (5,064 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Alexander case Racial hoax A Rape on Campus McFadden, Robert D. (August 1, 1990). Outrage: the story behind the Tawana Brawley hoax. Bantam. ISBN 9780553057560

The Hoax (1,535 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Hoax is a 2006 American comedy-drama film starring Richard Gere, directed by Swedish filmmaker Lasse Hallström. The screenplay by William Wheeler is

Bogdanov affair (7,749 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

work. Rumors spread on Usenet newsgroups that their work was a deliberate hoax intended to target weaknesses in the peer review system that physics journals

Great Rose Bowl Hoax (1,426 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Great Rose Bowl Hoax was a prank at the 1961 Rose Bowl, an annual American college football bowl game. That year, the Washington Huskies were pitted

Bigfoot (17,798 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and alleged evidence, is a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax rather than a living animal. Folklorists trace the phenomenon of Bigfoot

The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (607 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Southern Literary Messenger as "Hans Phaall -- A Tale", intended by Poe to be a hoax. The story is regarded as one of the early examples of the modern science

Aspartame controversy (4,989 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

irregularities fueled a conspiracy theory, which the "Nancy Markle" email hoax circulated, along with claims—counter to the weight of medical evidence—that

Bananadine (389 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

psychoactive substance which is supposedly extracted from banana peels. A hoax recipe for its "extraction" from banana peel was originally published in

Avril Lavigne replacement conspiracy theory (1,756 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

admits that the theory is a hoax, and that "This blog was created to show how conspiracy theories can look true." The death hoax saw increased prevalence

UFO sightings in outer space (1,102 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sightings never occurred: science fiction writer Otto Binder perpetuated a hoax claiming Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong had encountered UFOs during the

Bad Astronomy (1,268 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax" is a non-fiction book by the American astronomer Phil Plait, who is also

A Rape on Campus (13,157 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Stone's lawyer told jurors in a 2016 trial that Rolling Stone was victim of a "hoax" and a "fraud", and added with regard to Jackie: "the magazine's editorial

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (9,533 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the plagiarism is made." In the same year, an entire book documenting the hoax was published in the United States by Herman Bernstein. Despite this widespread

Talking Angela (819 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

December 2014. In February 2014, Talking Angela was the subject of an Internet hoax alleging that the application encouraged children to disclose personal information

Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax (8,953 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

claimed that the hoax does a disservice to victims of real hate crimes. Commentators have compared the alleged incident to other racial hoaxes. Following Smollett's

Technical support scam (4,732 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

IRS impersonation scam SSA impersonation scam Telemarketing fraud Virus hoax List of scams Arthur, Charles (July 18, 2012). "Virus phone scam being run

Stenay (547 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Stenay (French pronunciation: [stənɛ]) is a commune in north-eastern France. It lies in the Meuse department, which is located in the Lorraine portion

Et in Arcadia ego (Poussin) (1,385 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Et in Arcadia ego (also known as Les bergers d'Arcadie or The Arcadian Shepherds) is a 1637–38 painting by Classical painter Nicolas Poussin. It depicts

Media prank (2,289 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

doing hoaxes to point out the inadequacies and dangers of an irresponsible press". During the late 1980s members of activist group Grevillea hoaxed Australian

Berners Street hoax (674 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

0°08′14″W / 51.5176°N 0.1372°W / 51.5176; -0.1372 The Berners Street hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in Westminster, London, England, in 1810

Arthur Conan Doyle (9,865 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

science, argued that Doyle may have been the perpetrator of the Piltdown Man hoax of 1912, creating the counterfeit hominid fossil that fooled the scientific

Duncan Grant (2,314 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Dreadnought was a high-profile target for the pranksters, and as such the hoax attracted much attention in the press once discovered. Grant is best known

George Floyd protests in Pennsylvania (4,096 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

flocked to Gettysburg to foil a supposed antifa flag burning, an apparent hoax created on social media". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-07-21

Taensa language (1,475 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

resemblance to Natchez — these publications are generally considered to be a hoax and the language it described to be invented. The earliest European reports

Ashley Todd mugging hoax (728 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Attack Was a Hoax". Fox News. October 24, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-26. Fuoco, Michael A. (October 25, 2008). "McCain volunteer admits to hoax". Pittsburgh

Pineberry (249 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pineberry is a white strawberry cultivar with red seeds and a pineapple-like flavor. Pineberry is a hybrid cross from Fragaria chiloensis and Fragaria

The Hemingway Hoax (1,004 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Hemingway Hoax is a short novel by science fiction writer Joe Haldeman. It weaves together a story of an attempt to produce a fake Ernest Hemingway

2Day FM (4,348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hospital hoax still playing on radio". The Daily Telegraph. London. Duffin, Claire (8 December 2012). "Duchess of Cambridge: radio station behind hoax call

Spygate (conspiracy theory) (8,023 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

president. It took place very early on, and long before the phony Russia Hoax became a "hot" Fake News story. If true – all time biggest political scandal

Belgian UFO wave (2,047 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for the Belgian TV channel RTL, Patrick Maréchal explained that it was a hoax that he had constructed to fool with his workmates. He constructed a model

The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (3,084 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

debunked by journalists and scholars as France's greatest 20th-century literary hoax, some commentators express concern that the proliferation and popularity

Plagiaulax (185 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

discoverer, Charles Dawson has been implicated in the Piltdown hoax and Pevensey tiles hoax. D.P.S. Peacock, 1973, "Forged Brick-Stamps from Pevensey." Kielan-Jaworowska

Aurora, Texas, UFO incident (1,456 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the slab. (According to writing on the slab, this was done in 1945.) The hoax theory is primarily based on a 1980 Time magazine interview with Etta Pegues

Peter Boghossian (3,525 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Boghossian, James A. Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose submitted a series of hoax academic papers for peer-review to journals in academic fields which they

Blog fiction (963 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"notorious" in part because they often uneasily tread the line between fiction and hoax. Sometimes blog fictions are republished as print books, and in other cases

Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter (1,338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and owls. The United States Air Force classified the alleged incident as a hoax in the Project Blue Book files. Psychologists have used the alleged incident

Elm Guest House hoax (2,227 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Elm Guest House was a hotel in Rocks Lane, near Barnes Common in southwest London. In a list produced by convicted fraudster Chris Fay, several prominent

Official Opposition (India) (327 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

for deletion and/or removing the section in question. For blatant hoaxes, use {{db-hoax}} to identify it for speedy deletion instead. Further information

Lonnie Zamora incident (1,035 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Zamora's claims include a lunar lander test by White Sands Missile Range and a hoax by New Mexico Tech students. On April 24, 1964 at approximately 17:45, Socorro

Lonelygirl15 (5,856 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Valley Watcher revealing Rose's identity, led to the project being outed as a hoax in September 2006. Viewership for the series continued to grow after the

Elf Aquitaine (1,258 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Aquitaine. Elf Aquitaine lost over US$150 million in the 1979 Great Oil Sniffer Hoax to develop a new "gravity wave-based oil detection system", which was later

Blended wing body (2,170 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

March 17, 2015. Christensen, Brett M. (April 19, 2012). "Boeing 797 Hoax". Hoax-Slayer. Archived from the original on 2012-04-23. Baseler, Randy. "Air

British Arctic Territories (461 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Government of Canada. 1906. p. 1151–1173. Retrieved 29 September 2021 – via Internet Archive. "British Arctic Territory Flag Hoax". www.crwflags.com.

List of Google April Fools' Day jokes (15,538 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

From 2000 to 2019, Google frequently inserted jokes and hoaxes into its products on April Fools' Day, which takes place on April 1. The company ceased

Chemtrail conspiracy theory (4,609 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

released an undated fact sheet that stated the conspiracy theories were a hoax fueled in part by citations to a 1996 strategy paper drafted within their

Soyuz 2 (685 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1997 in Madrid suggested that the story and artifacts form an elaborate hoax: The name "Ivan Istochnikov" is a Russian translation of Joan Fontcuberta's

Cabal (885 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hoaxes Dundy County (1884) Maury Island (1947) Roswell (1947) Twin Falls (1947) Aztec, New Mexico (1949) Southern England (1967) Ilkley Moor (1987) Gulf

Interpedia (452 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Controversies Alan MacMasters hoax Carlos Bandeirense Mirandópolis hoax Edit wars Essjay controversy Henryk Batuta hoax Jar'Edo Wens hoax Seigenthaler biography

Exit Through the Gift Shop (2,317 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

wrote: "The widespread speculation that Exit Through the Gift Shop is a hoax only adds to its fascination", adding that he believed the film was real

Masonic conspiracy theories (1,591 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

deals with "the occult". These theories have their beginnings in the Taxil hoax. In addition to these, there are various theories that focus on the embedding

Citation needed (643 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Controversies Alan MacMasters hoax Carlos Bandeirense Mirandópolis hoax Edit wars Essjay controversy Henryk Batuta hoax Jar'Edo Wens hoax Seigenthaler biography

Suicide of Jacintha Saldanha (2,811 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Cambridge, who was a patient there at the time. Saldanha fell for the hoax and transferred the call to the nurse looking after the Duchess. Saldanha's

Salting (confidence trick) (134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

to defraud stakeholders in the mining industry. Examples are the diamond hoax of 1872 and the former Canadian gold company Bre-X. Land patent Youngberg

Quadrant (magazine) (1,599 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

James McAuley, a Catholic poet, known for the anti-modernist Ern Malley hoax. It was originally an initiative of the Australian Committee for Cultural

The Sun (New York City) (3,284 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

working class readers. The Sun is well-known for publishing the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, as well as Francis Pharcellus Church's 1897 editorial containing

WKJY (612 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Baldwin mother in response to a birthday party invite from two gay dads was a hoax carried out by two of the station's disc jockeys. The hosts of the K-98.3

Aviation Week & Space Technology (1,261 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Communist and non-Communist countries." In reality, however, the article was a hoax. The aircraft in the photographs was later revealed to be an M-50 bomber

Andy Kaufman (8,052 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

persistent rumors have circulated that Kaufman faked his own death as a grand hoax. He continues to be respected for the variety of his characters, his uniquely

Atlanta Nights (1,345 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

publishing firm PublishAmerica would still accept it. It was accepted; after the hoax was revealed, the publisher withdrew its offer. The primary purpose of the

Dynamo Duck (762 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

crime and espionage organizations were known by their acronyms. Such as H.O.A.X. (the Horrible Organization Against Excellence), S.N.O.B. (the Secret Nefarious

Jenkem (2,193 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sources reported that the increase in American media coverage was based on a hoax and on faulty Internet research. The name derives from Genkem, a brand of

Marlboro M hoax (407 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Marlboro M Hoax was a false rumor originating from satire news website Abril Uno in January 2014 and republished in March 2015. It was an April Fools

Orgueil (meteorite) (964 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

in fact glue. Whilst the perpetrator is unknown, it is thought that the hoax was aimed at influencing 19th century debate on spontaneous generation by

Dharma Initiative (6,275 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Dharma Initiative, also written DHARMA (Department of Heuristics and Research on Material Applications), is a fictional research project and organization

Allegations of biological warfare in the Korean War (6,507 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

American and allied government officials denounced the allegations as a hoax. Subsequent scholars are split about the truth of the claims. Until the end

Hillbilly Elegy (2,011 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a 2016 memoir by current U.S. vice president-elect JD Vance about the Appalachian values

Antisemitic trope (23,587 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Holocaust denial claims imply, or openly state, that the Holocaust is a "hoax" committed out of a "deliberate Jewish conspiracy" to advance the "Jewish

Chuck Biscuits (1,088 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

media sources, but was soon questioned by Biscuits' friends and family as a hoax. That evening, Biscuit's sister-in-law e-mailed Greene to confirm that the

Sarita, Texas (892 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

residents out of their homes and using the town as a base of operations. The hoax report circled on the Internet. Sarita is located in northern Kenedy County

John Titor (1,902 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

skepticism. A 2009 investigation suggested that the entire affair was a hoax created by Larry Haber, a Florida entertainment lawyer, and his brother John

UFO sightings in Australia (491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved 22 July 2018. Neal, Matt (26 September 2020). "'Holy grail' or epic hoax? Australian Kelly Cahill's UFO abduction story still stirs passions". ABC

UFO sightings in Australia (491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved 22 July 2018. Neal, Matt (26 September 2020). "'Holy grail' or epic hoax? Australian Kelly Cahill's UFO abduction story still stirs passions". ABC

IReport (1,164 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Steve Jobs' health, which caused Apple's stock to temporarily drop. The hoax was attributed to users of the web forum 4chan. In 2011, CNN held the first

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here, a "hoax within a hoax": the real characters are shown joking, giving the false impression that they are voluntarily part of the hoax. In fact at

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such as his October 28, 1863 hoax called "A Bloody Massacre near Carson" (alternatively, the "Empire City Massacre Hoax") purporting to detail the story

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individuals involved with the sport on the island clarified that it was a hoax. Nauru Soccer Federation Australian rules football in Nauru "Geelong Foster

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M. Inhofe stated his belief that "manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people", and a hearing of the United States

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announced. In January 2009, Windschuttle was hoaxed into publishing an article in Quadrant. The stated aim of the hoax was to expose Windschuttle's purported

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than a mere radio play." This approach was similar to Ronald Knox's radio hoax Broadcasting the Barricades that was broadcast by the BBC in 1926, which

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" At the end of the program, Klein revealed that his remarks had been a hoax, saying, "I can't believe any of you are sick enough to have agreed for one

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process by which the so-called "myth" was created the "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax". Pullum argued that the fact that the number of word roots for snow is about

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Ground Saucer Watch (GSW). According to the GSW: there is no evidence of a hoax; the motion of the objects was attributable to the camera movement caused

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Hollywood war film populated by third-class actors." A later variant of the hoax linked with Marcos historical distortionism falsely claimed that the whole

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station 2Day FM made a hoax telephone call to the hospital. Soon afterwards, nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who had passed on the hoax call to the other nurse

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purportedly authored by Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari. Omari was, in fact, a hoax persona created by the American citizen and then-student of the University

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A Hoax (German: Schabernack) is a 1936 German comedy film directed by E. W. Emo and starring Paul Hörbiger, Trude Marlen, and Hans Moser. It was shot at

Montauk Project (871 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

conspiracy theories Project MKUltra Vallée, Jacques F. (1994). "Anatomy of a hoax: The Philadelphia Experiment fifty years later" (PDF). Journal of Scientific

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Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-3072-6395-7. Katsoulis, Melissa (2009). Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-opening History of Famous Frauds. New York: Skyhorse. ISBN 978-1-6023-9794-1

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She portrayed fictional model Allegra Coleman in a 1996 Esquire magazine hoax and took on guest roles on several television shows in the 1990s. She made

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a Hoax". Associated Press. August 8, 2004. Archived from the original on April 13, 2015. Retrieved October 3, 2014 – via Fox News. "US man made hoax execution

2005 Indonesian embassy bioterrorism hoax (471 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The 2005 Indonesian embassy bioterrorism hoax occurred when Indonesian ambassador to Australia Imron Cotan received a suspect letter addressed to him at

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with CoolWebSearch spyware. The Koobface threat is also the subject of many hoax warnings designed to trick social networking users into spreading misinformation

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wife – a story of a false accusation of rape from the Hebrew Bible Racial hoax Recovered memory therapy Satanic ritual abuse Turvey, Brent E. (2013). Forensic

Flight 105 UFO sighting (1,147 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

late July, Arnold and Smith went to Seattle to investigate the Maury Island hoax, an alleged encounter with a UFO. On July 28, a "disklike object" was sighted

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of all, McCartney is still around as living proof of the absurdity of the hoax." Film Threat noted that an "audience's ability to suspend practical thought

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was the 1998 hoax Our First Time where two alleged 18-year-olds planned to have sex for the first time online. In another notable hoax, in August 1999

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plot" to undermine him. He has claimed the investigations were an "illegal hoax", and that the "real collusion" was between Hillary Clinton, Democrats, and

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In The Sky”, a true story of five Arizona loggers accused of committing a hoax or murderous crime after they report a crew member’s (Travis Walton) mysterious

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Freeman Sharpe. In 1936, Stephen decided to recount in detail the Dreadnought hoax, in which he had taken part a quarter of a century earlier, completing an

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Great White Wonder, or GWW, is a rock bootleg album, released in July 1969, containing unofficially released recordings by Bob Dylan. It is the first notable

Fort Juelson (348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Civil War veterans, Hans Juelson and Berge O. Lee. The scare proved to be a hoax, and the fort was never used for defensive purposes. Remnants of the sod

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Some of the famous works she has been part of are the Boilerplate robot hoax/comic or various Dark Horse Comics she has produced. Anina Bennett is part

Adrian Stephen (528 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Freeman Sharpe. In 1936, Stephen decided to recount in detail the Dreadnought hoax, in which he had taken part a quarter of a century earlier, completing an

Victoria Coren Mitchell (2,226 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

receiving some suspicious email replies to her notice, she instigated a hoax to trap the group. She created "Sir William Ormerod" and placed a death notice

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The hoax was successful, with a number of Australian media groups, including the AAP, running stories based on the material. When revealed, the hoax was

McDonald's urban legends (1,208 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

$1.50 surcharge for African-American customers. This was proven to be a hoax. Since 2015, fake news websites have purported that McDonald's restaurants

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printing font size. On April 1, 2007, Juraj Šimlovič pulled an April Fools' hoax on the official web-page of the project. He claimed that Microsoft was going

Elvis sightings (1,754 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Dead at 58", only to announce just weeks later that also turned out to be a hoax. The American television show Unsolved Mysteries featured segments on the

Fort Juelson (348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Civil War veterans, Hans Juelson and Berge O. Lee. The scare proved to be a hoax, and the fort was never used for defensive purposes. Remnants of the sod

Hitler Diaries (10,946 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is still room—however unlikely—for suspecting that the whole thing is a hoax. An obvious motive would be money. Another would be an attempt to rehabilitate

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that assets remain secure and outside third-party control. According to a hoax, Roosevelt ordered all safe deposit boxes in the country seized and searched

Phoenix Lights (2,410 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2011-07-13. Retrieved 2010-05-20. "Valley man admits to "lights in sky" hoax". 2008-04-23. Archived from the original on 2008-05-01. Retrieved 2008-04-26

Ghost Chasers (345 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the twenty-second film in the series. The film depicts spiritualism as a hoax, and has the Bowery Boys investigating the residence of a fake medium. They

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newspapers and on television around the world. The story was confirmed to be a hoax perpetrated by Todd and, according to Talking Points Memo, spread to reporters

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Western Australia in the Aus Country Championships and as part of an internet hoax, was touted as a possible recruit for the Essendon Football Club. The Age

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of the strip search realized the call is a hoax or by the intervention of a bystander. Some notable hoaxes were: On August 4, 1994, a man claiming to

Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory (874 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

UFOs and ufology Notable sightings and hoaxes Kenneth Arnold sighting 1947 wave Roswell Mantell crash Chiles-Whitted Gorman dogfight McMinnville photos

Great Diamond Hoax (1,249 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The diamond hoax of 1872 (sometimes called The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872) was a swindle in which a pair of prospectors sold a false American diamond

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United States, Firth also researched and wrote his first book, American Hoax. This involved creating a number of fictional stereotypical American characters

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broke several stories, including the revelation of the Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax. Alumni writers of Deadspin have gone on to work for The New York Times,

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Title Date Director Notes 39 Born to Peck February 25 Walter Lantz 40 Stage Hoax April 21 First cartoon with new dialogue spoken by Woody. 41 Woodpecker in

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Sham Wedding / Hoax Funeral (160 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sham Wedding/Hoax Funeral is a split CD featuring Austin, Texas "brother bands" Okkervil River and Shearwater. It was first available only at North American

Jacqui Dean (2,206 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on Campus members based loosely around the well-known dihydrogen monoxide hoax, she sent a letter to Associate Health Minister Jim Anderton, asking if there

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Egyptian chief physician Merit Ptah whose existence was later exposed as a hoax. The only known real person by that name was married to Ramose (TT55), a

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seen in Florida during the 1940s and is at least partly documented as a hoax. This legend has no scientific merit, despite there having been giant penguins

TWA Flight 8 (1,188 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

turned out to be a hoax; the plane had not been found. An outraged TWA spokesman denounced the message as "one of the cruelest hoaxes ever perpetrated."

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15, 2020. Caliwan, Christopher Lloyd (February 5, 2020). "PNP monitors 6 'hoax posts' on nCoV threat". Philippine News Agency. Philippine News Agency. Retrieved

List of reported UFO sightings (7,078 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2015. Retrieved 1 April 2013. Carroll, Robert Todd. "Aztec (New Mexico) UFO Hoax". The Skeptic's Dictionary. Archived from the original on 26 May 2000. Retrieved

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and resumed the show. However, the fainting "spell" was actually a media hoax perpetrated by Alan Abel, who claimed it was a protest against poor-quality

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and war nerves. c. Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetuate a hoax or to seek publicity. d. Psychopathological persons."[unreliable fringe source

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Naked Came the Stranger is a 1969 novel written as a literary hoax poking fun at the American literary culture of its time. Though credited to "Penelope

Mormon blogosphere (2,804 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2010[update], the Banner of Heaven hoax continued to elicit strong debate whenever the subject was broached, and the hoax constituted one of the most important

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Controversies Alan MacMasters hoax Carlos Bandeirense Mirandópolis hoax Edit wars Essjay controversy Henryk Batuta hoax Jar'Edo Wens hoax Seigenthaler biography

Pascagoula Abduction (825 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

conducted by an experienced examiner, and concluded that the case was a hoax. Skeptical investigator Joe Nickell wrote that Hickson's behavior was "questionable"

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blue coat at Pontins. In 2009, Benson Phillips was the victim of a death hoax perpetrated across the internet which maintained that he had died in a car

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David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

1956 Olympic flame hoax (1,323 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1956 Olympic flame hoax was an incident in which Barry Larkin, a veterinary student at the University of Sydney, ran with a homemade torch and fooled

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2022-09-20. Jenkins, Abby (June 6, 2020). "Cool Math Games' shut down is a hoax". Arrow. Archived from the original on 2019-10-06. Retrieved 2019-10-06.

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David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

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Mormon blogosphere (2,804 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2010[update], the Banner of Heaven hoax continued to elicit strong debate whenever the subject was broached, and the hoax constituted one of the most important

Dave Benson Phillips (967 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

blue coat at Pontins. In 2009, Benson Phillips was the victim of a death hoax perpetrated across the internet which maintained that he had died in a car

List of reported UFO sightings (7,078 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2015. Retrieved 1 April 2013. Carroll, Robert Todd. "Aztec (New Mexico) UFO Hoax". The Skeptic's Dictionary. Archived from the original on 26 May 2000. Retrieved

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in the Vietnam War. That novel and other works, including The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997), have won science fiction awards, including

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David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Dulce Base (784 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Naked Came the Stranger (927 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Naked Came the Stranger is a 1969 novel written as a literary hoax poking fun at the American literary culture of its time. Though credited to "Penelope

Whitey (slang) (203 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

prompt of "negro". During Barack Obama's 2008 US presidential campaign, a hoax was promoted that his wife Michelle Obama had been recorded "railing against

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The Japanese Paleolithic hoax (旧石器捏造事件, Kyū Sekki Netsuzō Jiken) consisted of a number of lower and middle paleolithic finds in Japan discovered by amateur

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Rob (dog) (763 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

the SAS. However, in 2006, his actions were revealed as being a possible hoax perpetrated by members of his regiment in order to prevent Rob leaving after

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50°55′12″N 3°22′59″W / 50.920°N 3.383°W / 50.920; -3.383 Sampford Peverell is a village and civil parish in Mid-Devon, England. An old Saxon settlement

Sham Wedding / Hoax Funeral (160 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sham Wedding/Hoax Funeral is a split CD featuring Austin, Texas "brother bands" Okkervil River and Shearwater. It was first available only at North American

List of fictional diaries (2,143 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fictional works in diary form, diaries appearing in fictional works, and hoax diaries. The first category, fictional works in diary form, lists fictional

Joshua Ryne Goldberg (3,252 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto apologized for believing a hoax allegedly perpetrated by Goldberg under the name "Tanya Cohen" earlier in

UFO sightings in India (442 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Free energy suppression conspiracy theory (866 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hoaxes Dundy County (1884) Maury Island (1947) Roswell (1947) Twin Falls (1947) Aztec, New Mexico (1949) Southern England (1967) Ilkley Moor (1987) Gulf

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David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Pterosaur (16,424 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pterosaurs are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria. They existed during most of the Mesozoic: from the Late Triassic to the end

Virginia Woolf (16,319 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the Bloomsbury Group attained notoriety in 1910 with the Dreadnought hoax, in which they posed as a royal Abyssinian entourage (with Virginia as "Prince

Operation Orangemoody (840 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Controversies Alan MacMasters hoax Carlos Bandeirense Mirandópolis hoax Edit wars Essjay controversy Henryk Batuta hoax Jar'Edo Wens hoax Seigenthaler biography

1956 Olympic flame hoax (1,323 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1956 Olympic flame hoax was an incident in which Barry Larkin, a veterinary student at the University of Sydney, ran with a homemade torch and fooled

Charles Dawson (2,248 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

technological methods such as fluorine testing indicate that this discovery was a hoax, and Dawson, the only one with the skill and knowledge to generate this forgery

Arecibo message (2,118 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Arecibo message is an interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth that was sent to the globular cluster Messier

Project Magnet (UFO) (621 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

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David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Magnús Scheving (2,046 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

career in crossfit, the announcement can be construed as an April Fools' Day hoax.[original research?] In 2010, Magnús starred in the film alongside Jackie

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Hoaxes Dundy County (1884) Maury Island (1947) Roswell (1947) Twin Falls (1947) Aztec, New Mexico (1949) Southern England (1967) Ilkley Moor (1987) Gulf

Tulli Papyrus (741 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

although ufologists Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck have described it as a "hoax". According to Vallee and Aubeck, since Tulli had supposedly copied it during

Finnish Air Force UFO sighting (249 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1990–1991) (29,020 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

by British security forces and the device later declared a hoax. It was one of several hoax bombs in Belfast perpetrated by the IRA on 9 February. several

Joey Skaggs (3,335 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

paintings, sculptures, guerrilla theater, performance art, socially revealing hoaxes, media pranks, and films. In 2017, "Art of the Prank", Andrea Marini's award-winning

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interference in the 2016 U.S. elections. In 2018, he published The Russia Hoax, which argues that the "deep state" have sought to undermine the Trump administration

Christopher Walken (6,902 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

pronounced the band's name correctly in 2023. Walken became the subject of a hoax controversy in 2006, when a fake website started in August of that year by

F for Fake (2,995 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

documentary on de Hory, the film also incorporates Welles's companion Oja Kodar, hoax biographer Clifford Irving and Orson Welles as himself. F for Fake is sometimes

Clayton Echard (1,091 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Clayton Ray Echard (born April 29, 1993) is an American television personality best known for his appearances as a contestant on season 18 of The Bachelorette

Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1990–1991) (29,020 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

by British security forces and the device later declared a hoax. It was one of several hoax bombs in Belfast perpetrated by the IRA on 9 February. several

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infrastructure, including MRT stations and bus interchanges. Similar to other bomb hoaxes at Hougang and Jurong East, 21-year-old Lin Zhenghuang was sentenced to

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statement to the press that "the [Hart] photos were never proven to be a hoax, but neither were they proven to be genuine." The Texas Tech professors claimed

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The Skcin computer tan hoax was a hoax website set up by skin cancer charity Skcin in 2009 to spread awareness about skin cancer through the Internet

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it first appeared in 1796. It was eventually revealed to be a Shakespeare hoax, the product of prominent forger William Henry Ireland and part of his wider

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Filibuster (military) (3,960 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

presidential order to arrest Gonzales. The Frank Hann letters were a series of hoax letters published in 1895, purported to be written by a "Major F. P. Hann"

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The high five is a hand gesture whereby two people simultaneously raise one hand and slap the flat of their palm against the other. The gesture is often

List of Wikipedia controversies (23,473 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wikipedia. The incident dates back to May 2005, with the anonymous posting of a hoax Wikipedia article containing false and negative allegations about John Seigenthaler

National Post (2,933 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The National Post is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper and the flagship publication of Postmedia Network. It is published Mondays through

UFO sightings in the United States (705 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2015. Retrieved June 15, 2019. "NJ Men Fined for UFO Hoax". LiveScience.com. "The Great UFO Hoax of 2009". Archived from the original on March 28, 2010

RAF Fylingdales (1,987 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Nuclear Disarmament". 9 June 2009. Retrieved 7 September 2018. "2019 Bomb Hoax". The Scarborough News. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2020. "Chinese

Dragon Models Limited (2,174 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dragon Models Limited (Dragon or DML for short) is a Hong-Kong–based manufacturer of plastic model kits, diecast models and military action figures. Founded

List of games with concealed rules (1,033 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

because their discovery is part of the game itself, or because the game is a hoax and the rules do not exist. In fiction, the counterpart of the first category

Pizzagate conspiracy theory (8,348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

filed police reports. Brooklyn restaurant Roberta's was also pulled into the hoax, receiving harassing phone calls, including a call from an unidentified person

Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc (municipality) (510 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

final resting place of Aztec huey tlatoani Cuauhtémoc, which is an elaborate hoax. The municipality of Ixcateopan is part of the northern region of Guerrero

Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster (428 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and it may have only been a semi-serious proposal, or even an outright hoax, much like the Panzer IX and Panzer X. On 23 June 1942, the German Ministry

The BMJ (2,663 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

published, Murphy wrote a letter to The BMJ revealing that the report had been a hoax. The BMJ went fully online in 1995 and archived all its issues on the World

UFO sightings in South Africa (3,104 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

individuals or witnesses, researcher Michael Hesemann denounced it as 'a complete hoax'. Other researchers, though skeptical, held out hope to trace witnesses.

Oera Linda Book (2,153 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Among academics in Germanic philology, the document is considered to be a hoax or forgery. The manuscript first came to public awareness in the 1860s. In

Psychological projection (2,110 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hoaxes Dundy County (1884) Maury Island (1947) Roswell (1947) Twin Falls (1947) Aztec, New Mexico (1949) Southern England (1967) Ilkley Moor (1987) Gulf

Next to Me (Emeli Sandé song) (1,444 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

World Party and Dance Central Spotlight. Emeli Sande - lead vocals Craze & Hoax, James Murray, Mustafa Omer: Production, all instruments and programming

HardwareZone (706 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in settlement". The Straits Times. Chua Hian Hou (8 February 2007). "Bomb hoax youth gets 3 months' jail, $4,000 fine". The Straits Times. "SPH Magazines

Energy being (375 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

List of investigations of UFOs by governments (161 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

2010 Georgian news report hoax (4,754 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

report hoax, also known as "Simulated Chronicle", was a fake news report aired by Georgian television station Imedi TV on 13 March 2010. The hoax, intended

Andrew Fulton (mayor) (431 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

raise horses for a number of years. In 1888, Fulton was the victim of a hoax. Initially reported to have been fatally injured 20 miles outside of Denver

Personal identification number (2,744 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A personal identification number (PIN; sometimes redundantly a PIN code or PIN number) is a numeric (sometimes alpha-numeric) passcode used in the process

William Wordsworth Fisher (1,368 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

family, and in 1910 his ship HMS Dreadnought was targeted in the Dreadnought hoax by Adrian Stephen, his sister Virginia Stephen (later Virginia Woolf) and

Flying penguin hoax (881 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

film trailer featuring flying penguins made in 2008 as an April Fools' Day hoax. The film was advertised as compelling evidence for Charles Darwin's theory

Wikipedia Monument (761 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Controversies Alan MacMasters hoax Carlos Bandeirense Mirandópolis hoax Edit wars Essjay controversy Henryk Batuta hoax Jar'Edo Wens hoax Seigenthaler biography

2017 Wichita swatting (3,200 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

related to the swatting. Barriss was charged with false information and hoaxes, cyberstalking resulting in death, making threats of death or damage to

Depp v. Heard (12,957 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ruled that Waldman's other allegations of Heard's "sexual violence hoax" and "abuse hoax" against Depp had not been proven defamatory. After the trial ended

Personal identification number (2,744 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A personal identification number (PIN; sometimes redundantly a PIN code or PIN number) is a numeric (sometimes alpha-numeric) passcode used in the process

2010 Georgian news report hoax (4,754 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

report hoax, also known as "Simulated Chronicle", was a fake news report aired by Georgian television station Imedi TV on 13 March 2010. The hoax, intended

UFO sightings in Russia (194 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Alien abduction (6,692 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

UFOs and ufology Notable sightings and hoaxes Kenneth Arnold sighting 1947 wave Roswell Mantell crash Chiles-Whitted Gorman dogfight McMinnville photos

Elena Yampolskaya (266 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Russian Federation since May 14, 2024. Yampolskaya became the victim of a hoax when she added the fictional pro-Kremlin poet Gennady Rakitin as a "friend"

Beringer's Lying Stones (1,134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

but shortly after discovered that he had been the victim of a hoax. He took the hoaxers to court and won the case but his reputation was forever besmirched

Jesus bloodline (6,687 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

name in the 1950s, the very existence of the Priory had been an elaborate hoax, and that the documents on which Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln had relied for

Boxer Protocol (2,311 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

threatened Catholics. It turned out that Bermyn had created the incident as a hoax. One of the false reports claimed that Dong Fuxiang wiped out Belgian missionaries

Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics (1,446 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

presents an antisemitic theory of history, asserts that the Holocaust was a hoax, and is dedicated to "the hero of the Second World War", meant to describe

Birds Aren't Real (1,082 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hoaxes Dundy County (1884) Maury Island (1947) Roswell (1947) Twin Falls (1947) Aztec, New Mexico (1949) Southern England (1967) Ilkley Moor (1987) Gulf

Operação Prato (580 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Ghost rockets (1,896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Léo Taxil (863 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

strong anti-Catholic and anti-clerical views. He is also known for the Taxil hoax, a spurious exposé of Freemasonry and the Roman Catholic Church's opposition

John Banville (7,217 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hoax". The Observer. Archived from the original on 13 October 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019. "'All experience is material'—Banville on Nobel hoax"

Judith Miller (6,058 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a top New York Times best seller shortly after she became a victim of a hoax anthrax letter at the time of the 2001 anthrax attacks. The New York Times

UFO sightings in Mexico (353 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Imedi Media Holding (2,562 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"if Georgian society is not brought together against Russia's plans." The hoax was condemned by many public figures both in Georgia and abroad, including

Barbie Liberation Organization (1,172 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Livia (Aug 1, 2023). "Barbie Hoax Targets Mattel and Fools Some News Outlets". The New York Times. "EcoWarrior Barbie Hoax". YouTube. "Yellow Dot Studios

Mark Crispin Miller (1,815 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

group of conspiracy theorists propagating the view that the Holocaust was a hoax, a view denounced as racist and dis-proven not only by Miller but also the

Bossburg, Washington (1,201 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

153–59 Hunter & Dahinden, 159–63 online at http://www.bigfootencounters.com/hoaxes/marx_footage.htm McLeod, 119–28 An uncredited pro-Marx and pro-film article

Castletown, Sunderland (303 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of a hoax letter claiming to be from the Ripper, was identified by the forensic linguist Stanley Ellis as that of the Castletown area. The hoaxer was eventually

The Golden Turkey Awards (1,641 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Him, has also been cited as the hoax, though it is definitely known to have existed. No formal clarification of the hoax film was provided by the subsequent

James McAuley (1,107 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

prominent convert to Roman Catholicism. He was involved in the Ern Malley poetry hoax. McAuley was born in Lakemba, a suburb of Sydney. He was educated at Fort

Bunga bunga (1,392 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Dreadnought, in Weymouth, Dorset, in what became known as the Dreadnought hoax. It was reported that each time the Commander showed them a marvel of the

UFO sightings in Spain (498 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Jayadeva birth controversy (2,926 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The birthplace of the twelfth-century Sanskrit poet Jayadeva, author of the Gitagovinda, has been disputed, with the neighboring states of Odisha, West

Warsaw concentration camp (12,156 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2019, when Omer Benjakob of Haaretz called it "Wikipedia's longest-standing hoax". According to her theory, the subcamps near Warszawa Zachodnia station were

Ahmed Mohamed clock incident (6,684 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that it was a "hoax bomb". Under Texas law, it is illegal to possess a "hoax bomb" with an intent to "make another believe that the hoax bomb is an explosive

The Great American Hoax (134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"The Great American Hoax" is a 1957 episode of the TV series The 20th Century Fox Hour. This was the last TV play written by Paddy Chayefsky, and was based

The Da Vinci Hoax (208 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Da Vinci Hoax is a non-fiction book written by Carl E. Olsen and Sandra Miesel for the express purpose of critiquing Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci

Zond 5 (2,360 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Zond 5 (Russian: Зонд 5, lit. 'Probe 5') was a spacecraft of the Soviet Zond program. In September 1968 it became the first spaceship to travel to and

Adagio in G minor (928 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

existence of the fragment persists, with most seeing the affair as a musical hoax perpetrated by Giazotto. There is no room for doubt when it comes to the

Adagio in G minor (928 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

existence of the fragment persists, with most seeing the affair as a musical hoax perpetrated by Giazotto. There is no room for doubt when it comes to the

George Montandon (221 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

exhibition Le Juif et la France. George Montandon helped to perpetuate the hoax of De Loys's ape and fought for it be scientifically recognised as a new

9/11 conspiracy theories (20,409 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

difficulty of secretly substituting one plane for another, and claim that such "hoax theories ... appear calculated to alienate victims' survivors and the larger

Zanfretta UFO Incident (528 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Nancy Drew Notebooks (407 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Space Case The Secret in the Spooky Woods The Snowman Surprise The Bunny-Hop Hoax Strike-Out Scare Zoo Clue The Singing Suspects The Apple Bandit The Kitten

Bertrand Meyer (1,195 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

announced Meyer's death on the German Wikipedia's biography of Meyer. The hoax was reported five days later by the Heise News Ticker and the article was

Beck v. Eiland-Hall (5,668 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Beck v. Eiland-Hall was a case filed in 2009 before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency. It was filed by political

The Daily Egyptian (711 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

allegedly written. In 2005 The Daily Egyptian admitted that the letters were a hoax that was perpetuated by the woman pretending to be the girl's aunt. Reynolds

10 agorot controversy (665 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hoaxes Dundy County (1884) Maury Island (1947) Roswell (1947) Twin Falls (1947) Aztec, New Mexico (1949) Southern England (1967) Ilkley Moor (1987) Gulf

Hurricane Shark (1,903 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

unable to determine whether it was a shark. Both the re-emergence of the hoax in hurricane after hurricane and the eventual appearance of a plausible claim

Springer Hoax (396 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Springer Hoax was a scam starting in the mid 19th century, often using a phony genealogy in various ways to collect money based on the supposed estate

Yacht (band) (2,332 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

revealed that the leak of the sex tape was a hoax designed to promote the band. The duo admitted to the hoax and released a video inspired by combining

Jetpack man (1,019 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

June 2022 15 miles east of LAX at about 4,500 ft (1,400 m). Balloon boy hoax Lawnchair Larry flight 2010 California contrail incident The Rocketeer Shuman

Telamonia dimidiata (494 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the subject of an email hoax claiming that it was a fatal spider found lurking under toilet seats in North Florida. This hoax was a rehashing of an older

1961 Rose Bowl (1,546 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Minnesota received and accepted an "at-large" invitation. The Great Rose Bowl Hoax occurred during halftime. As seen by an estimated 30 million television viewers

Howard Hughes (16,147 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

years). In 1977, The Hoax by Clifford Irving was published in the United Kingdom, telling his story of these events. The 2006 film The Hoax, starring Richard

4chan (14,089 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

initially reported as genuine by NME and Spin until CNN revealed it was a hoax promoted by the board's users. The board has been acknowledged for sharing

Forbidden Love (novel) (700 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Archived 2006-02-15 at the Wayback Machine (2003 review of the book before the hoax was revealed) Forbidden Lie$ at IMDb (2007 docudrama of the hoax story)

Anthon Transcript (1,677 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Anthon believed any idea of the plates containing an ancient language was a hoax all along and that Harris was being deceived. Believers claim that the incident

Flying Saucer Working Party (305 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and the like; optical illusions and psychological delusions; deliberate hoaxes. The report ended: “We accordingly recommend very strongly that no further

Poni Hoax (750 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Poni Hoax are a French electronic music act. The four instrumentalists of Poni Hoax met at the Conservatoire National de Musique in Paris. After graduating

Nicolas Notovitch (2,209 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

scholars is that Notovitch's account of the travels of Jesus to India was a hoax. Notovitch also wrote some political books on the role of Russia in war.

Green fireballs (810 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Voting pencil conspiracy theory (288 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hoaxes Dundy County (1884) Maury Island (1947) Roswell (1947) Twin Falls (1947) Aztec, New Mexico (1949) Southern England (1967) Ilkley Moor (1987) Gulf

Business Plot (4,159 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the plot, with a New York Times editorial characterizing it as a "gigantic hoax". When the committee's final report was released, the Times said the committee

2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting (747 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Goodtimes virus (716 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Goodtimes virus, also styled as Good Times virus, was a computer virus hoax that spread during the early years of the Internet's popularity. Warnings

Moons of Mars (4,647 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pluto. In 1959, Walter Scott Houston perpetrated a celebrated April Fool's hoax in the April edition of the Great Plains Observer, claiming that "Dr. Arthur

Mac Tonnies (681 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Encyclopedia Astronautica (606 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

German rocket specialists in Soviet rocketry. Russia: The Real Moon Landing Hoax about the Space Race. Russia: What did the CIA know and when did they know

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (4,668 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved May 29, 2017. Pattengale, Jerry (May 1, 2014). "How the 'Jesus' Wife' Hoax Fell Apart". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on June

Hemlock Hoax, the Detective (918 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hemlock Hoax, the Detective is an American short comedy film produced and distributed in 1910 by the Lubin Manufacturing Company. The silent film features

Washington Redhawks (1,320 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

best part of any hoax is ultimately how believable the hoax could be and from top to bottom, this is one of the more believable hoaxes that you'll see

Bible conspiracy theory (954 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hoaxes Dundy County (1884) Maury Island (1947) Roswell (1947) Twin Falls (1947) Aztec, New Mexico (1949) Southern England (1967) Ilkley Moor (1987) Gulf

Veropedia (1,371 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Controversies Alan MacMasters hoax Carlos Bandeirense Mirandópolis hoax Edit wars Essjay controversy Henryk Batuta hoax Jar'Edo Wens hoax Seigenthaler biography

Arthur Butz (895 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

engineering at Northwestern University, best known as the author of the book The Hoax of the Twentieth Century. He achieved tenure in 1974 and currently teaches

Hoax (band) (663 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Hoax (stylized as HOAX) is an American indie pop band originating in Long Island, New York. The band is led by Michael P. Raj (vocals) and Frantz N. Cesar

Bevis Hillier (879 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

horrid hoax". The Sunday Times. London. Retrieved 28 August 2006. Brooks, Richard (3 September 2006). "Betjeman biographer confesses to literary hoax". The

Cardwell, Queensland (4,014 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

publicly debunk the rumours. Despite this, the hoax continues to circulate on social media. The hoax originated from an Islamophobic post on the "Meanwhile

Richard Leigh (author) (815 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Richard Harris Leigh (16 August 1943 – 21 November 2007) was a novelist and short story writer born in New Jersey, United States to a British father and

Cardwell, Queensland (4,014 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

publicly debunk the rumours. Despite this, the hoax continues to circulate on social media. The hoax originated from an Islamophobic post on the "Meanwhile

Mark Twain in Nevada (11,404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

appreciated, such as his hoax on October 28, 1863 called "A Bloody Massacre near Carson" (alternatively, the "Empire City Massacre Hoax"), purporting to detail

Kosher tax conspiracy theory (1,789 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2014. Brunvand 2002, pp. 222–223. Wein 2002. Sloane 1975. "The "Kosher Tax" Hoax: Anti-Semitic Recipe for Hate". Anti-Defamation League. January 1991. Archived

Jean Shepherd (4,276 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Service), and organizing comedic listener stunts. The most famous stunt was a hoax he created about a nonexistent book, I, Libertine, by a fake author "Frederick

2006 Iranian sumptuary law hoax (1,143 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On May 19, 2006, the National Post in Canada published an article titled "Iran Eyes Badges for Jews: Law would require non-Muslim insignia' by Iranian

Bielefeld conspiracy (1,584 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Vandael, Birger (20 February 2021). ""Parodie op complottheorieën", maar hoax 'Hasselt bestaat niet' doet flink de ronde op sociale media". Het Laatste

Modern flat Earth beliefs (8,342 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Johnson cited the Bible for his beliefs, and he saw scientists as pulling a hoax which would replace religion with science. The Flat Earth Society's most

Duke lacrosse case (12,915 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

film, but Reade Seligmann's parents and Colin Finnerty’s father did. Racial hoax Tawana Brawley rape allegations A Rape on Campus Katz, Neil (February 18

Conspiracy fiction (1,422 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hoaxes Dundy County (1884) Maury Island (1947) Roswell (1947) Twin Falls (1947) Aztec, New Mexico (1949) Southern England (1967) Ilkley Moor (1987) Gulf

Kevin and Bean (3,092 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

segment. The hoax resulted in investigations by the Sheriff's Department, the FCC, NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries" and other news media. The hoax was exposed

Sawing-off of Manhattan Island (487 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the hoax was itself a hoax, which is the conclusion Joel Rose suggests in his book, New York Sawed in Half: An Urban Historical (2001). The hoax was first

My Life as a Fake (388 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is a 2003 novel by Australian writer Peter Carey based on the Ern Malley hoax of 1943, in which two poets created a fictitious poet, Ern Malley, and submitted

Driver 8 (739 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is a way to improve that.' And 'Wow, that's really good. You're not the hoax you think you are.'" A harmonica was played in a mimicking fashion to sound

Dagobert II (2,823 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dagobert II (Latin: Dagober(c)tus; Old English: Dægberht; died 679) was a Merovingian king of the Franks, ruling in Austrasia from 675 or 676 until his

Schtonk! (704 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

German satirical film which retells the story of the 1983 Hitler Diaries hoax. It was written and directed by Helmut Dietl. In 1983, the German magazine

Dead fairy hoax (508 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The dead fairy hoax was an April Fools' Day prank in 2007. Dan Baines, a sculptor and illusion designer, managed to sell his creation, the fake corpse

Henry Lincoln (2,351 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

been written at the instigation of Pierre Plantard as part of an elaborate hoax to promote a society known as the Priory of Sion, and Plantard claimed to

Rennes-le-Château (4,407 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rennes-le-Château (French pronunciation: [ʁɛn lə ʃato] ; Occitan: Rènnas del Castèl) is a commune approximately 5 km (3 miles) south of Couiza, in the

Project Condign (654 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Rahul Ligma (2,192 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reference to the Ligma joke. The spontaneous and intentionally transparent hoax was revealed the same day, after the initial news coverage triggered debate

Italygate (1,223 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

March 12, 2024. Lanzavecchia, Otto (January 12, 2021). "Vatican blackout hoax linked to ItalyGate conspiracy theory". Formiche.net. Retrieved March 12

Social Text (384 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

nonsensical article that physicist Alan Sokal had deliberately written as a hoax. The editorial board, according to Editor Andrew Ross, published the article

Sanderson Hotel (557 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hotel occupies the site of 54 Berners Street, known for the Berners Street Hoax of 1810. The building was constructed with a modernist steel and glass frontage

Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting (289 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Chalk Mountain, Texas (420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

southwest of Glen Rose. In 2009, Chalk Mountain was the site of a meteorite hoax. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally

Herman Rosenblat (2,671 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

admitted to lying on purpose with the intention of "bringing joy". Before the hoax became public, the film rights to the book were purchased for $25 million

Penis captivus (1,057 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Yorrick Davis in the Philadelphia Medical News was later discovered to be a hoax perpetrated by Sir William Osler. Historians speculate that he was annoyed

The Flying Saucers Are Real (481 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic

Philippe de Chérisey (2,369 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Rennes by Gérard de Sède, as part of his involvement in the Priory of Sion hoax between 1962-1983. Coming from a wealthy family in the Lorraine, de Chérisey

Wonder (Naughty Boy song) (415 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

(part of Craze & Hoax) – songwriter, additional producer, recording engineer, instruments, programming Harry Craze (part of Craze & Hoax) – songwriter,

Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus (1,911 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus is responsible for some notable hoaxes and publicity stunts and has been praised for its clever pranks. It kicked

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tests were carried out on the mummy, with the initial belief that it was a hoax. Tests performed by the American Museum of Natural History and certified

Climatic Research Unit email controversy (17,024 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The New York Times in November 2009, said that the claims by sceptics of "hoax" or "fraud" were incorrect, but that the graph on the cover of a report for

Flat Earth (8,815 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Graham (July 7, 2017). "These Coloradans say Earth is flat. And gravity's a hoax. Now, they're being persecuted". The Denver Post. Retrieved August 19, 2017

Martian Monkey (466 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

monkey used by Edward Watters, Tom Wilson and Arnold Payne to perpetrate a hoax in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1953. In 1953, young Atlanta barbers Edward Watters

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Hoaxes Dundy County (1884) Maury Island (1947) Roswell (1947) Twin Falls (1947) Aztec, New Mexico (1949) Southern England (1967) Ilkley Moor (1987) Gulf

1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg (1,116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Grusch claims (2023) Confirmed hoaxes Maury Island hoax (1947) Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947) Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949) Southern England (1967) Majestic