Hoaxes Arranged by Category
(I listed some hoaxes twice if they fit in more than one category)

Anthropology The Patagonian Giants (1766) The Journal of Charles LeRaye (1812) Constantine Rafinesque's Walam Olum (1836) The Pictographs of Abbe Emmanuel Domenech (1860) The Stone Age Tasadays (1972) April Fool's Day See April Fool's Day Gallery Archaeology The Lying Stones of Dr. Beringer (1725) The Kinderhook Plates (1843) A Petrified Man (1862) The Calaveras Skull (1866) The Cardiff Giant (1869) The Taughannock Giant (1879) The Piltdown Man (1911) Shinichi Fujimura's Stone Age Discoveries (2000) Astronomy/Extraterrestrial Life The Adventures of Hans Pfaall (1835) The Great Moon Hoax (1835) The Orgueil Meteorite (1864) Cracks in the Moon (1874) Prisoners of the Moon (1876) "The War of the Worlds" (1938) Alternative Three (1977) Business/Financial Sawing the Island Off (1824) The Great Civil War Gold Hoax (1864) Freewheelz (2000) The Final Curtain (2000) The Safeway E-Mail Hoax (2000) The Emulex Hoax (2000) Exploration and Travel Marco Polo's Description of the World (1298) Madagascar—or Robert Drury's Journal (1729) The Patagonian Giants (1766) The Journal of Charles LeRaye (1812) The Great Balloon Hoax (1844) The Vizetelly Hoax (1849) The Georgia Train Duels (1856) First to the North Pole (1909) Fortune-Telling Mother Shipton's Prophecies (1641) The Predictions of Isaac Bickerstaff (1708) The Prediction of Tamara Rand (1981) Geology Symzonia—or The Hollow Earth (1820) The Port Orford, Oregon Meteorite Mystery (1856) The Orgueil Meteorite (1864) Ghosts and the Supernatural The Ghostly drummer of Tedworth (1730) Witchtrial at Mount Holly (1730) The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) William Mumler's Spirit Photography (1869) The Materialization of John Newbegin (1874) The Ghosts of Versailles (1911) The Brown lady of Raynham (1936) Ghostwatch (1992) The Thailand Ghost Swindle (2000) Historical The Journal of a British Spy (1827) Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography (1887) A Tale of a Tub (1917) The Hitler Diaries (1983) Impostors The Native of Formosa (1704) Princess Caraboo (1817) Joice Heth (1835) Maria Monk (1836) Dr. Egerton Yorrick Davis (1884) Douglas R. Stringfellow (1952) The Third Eye (1956) The Moscow Philharmonic Hoax (2000) Inventions Redheffer's Perpetual Motion Machine (1812) The Great Chess Automaton (1836) Legal The Polly Baker Case (1747) The Blue Laws of Connecticut (1782) The Mecklenburg Declaration (1819)

Linguistic The Voynich Manuscript (1665) Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) The Native of Formosa (1704) Princess Caraboo (1817) Constantine Rafinesque's Walam Olum (1836) Literary The Voynich Manuscript (1665) Jean Hardouin (1646-1729) The Fortsas Bibliohoax (1840) Leonainie (1877) Report from Iron Mountain (1967) Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Final Farewell (2000) Medical Mary Toft and the Rabbit Babies (1726) Graham's Celestial Bed (1779) The Case of the Miraculous Bullet (1874) Dr. Egerton Yorrick Davis (1884) Newspaper Silence Dogood (1722) The Ghostly Drummer of Tedworth (1730) The Witch Trial at Mount Holly (1730) The Polly Baker Case (1747) The Adventures of Hans Pfaall (1835) The Great Moon Hoax (1835) The Great Balloon Hoax (1844) The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) The Georgia Train Duels (1856) A Petrified Man (1862) The Central Park Zoo Escape (1874) Cracks in the Moon (1874) The Materialization of John Newbegin (1874) The Chicago Theater Fire (1875) Prisoners of the Moon (1876) The Winsted Wild Man (1895) The Great Wall of China Hoax (1899) A Tale of a Tub (1917) Jimmy's World (1981) The Interfering Brassieres (1982) Photography William Mumler's Spirit Photography (1869) Stotham, Massachusetts (1920) The Brown Lady of Raynham (1936) The Perambulating Skull (1936) Physics/Chemistry Van Kempelen and His Discovery (1849) The Sokal Hoax (1996) Political The Mecklenburg Declaration (1819) The Southern Conspiracy to Confederate with Mexico (1850) The Hopkins Hoax (1862) The Miscegenation Hoax (1863) The Perambulating Skull (1936) Douglas R. Stringfellow (1952) Dick Tuck (1960s) Report from Iron Mountain (1967) Psychology The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) "Sidesteps Toward a Nonspecial Theory" (1954) Religious Donation of Constantine (750) Pope Joan (853-855) The Shroud of Turin (1355) Maria Monk (1836) The Great Disappointment (1843) The Kinderhook Plates (1843) The Third Eye (1956) Sports Rosie Ruiz (1980) Sidd Finch (1985) TV, Radio, Movies, and Plays "The War of the Worlds" (1938) The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest (1957) Subways Are For Sleeping (1961) Alternative Three (1977) Ghostwatch (1992) Fineman Films (2000) The Toronto Film Festival Hoax (2000) Zoology/Biology Linnaeus's Butterflies (1763) The Duckbilled Platypus (1799) The Gloucester Sea Serpent (1817) The Feejee mermaid (1842) Koch's Sea Serpent (1845) The Daphne and the Sea Serpent (1848) The Winsted Wild Man (1895) The Great Duck Egg Fake (1895) The Great Mammoth Hoax (1899) The Case of the Midwife Toad (1926) The Catch of the Zuiyo Maru (1977) The Cloning of a Man (1978) The Jackalope (late 20th century)

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