Museum of Hoaxes
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10K for a Wife: There's a guy who claims he'll pay you $10,000 if you introduce him to his future wife. Is he for real?
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666 on the Alamo: Is the number 666 appearing on the side of the Alamo?
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Big Bear Photo: A hunter poses by an incredibly big bear. Real or Fake?
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Blackout Photo, August 2003: Satellite photo of the 2003 blackout.
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Bonsai Kittens: Deformed kittens grown in jars
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Cook vs. Peary: Which explorer reached the North Pole first?
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Drop Bears: A curious creature native to the Australian outback. It hides in trees and spits on people.
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Fake Bloopers: Do you think those blooper scenes you see on tv are actually real?
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Feejee Mermaid: An 'authentic' mermaid exhibited by P.T. Barnum (featured on an episode of the X-Files)
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Flashman: LiveJournal user whom many thought had died during the attacks on the World Trade Center turns out never to have existed at all.
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Ghosts of Versailles: Spirit of Marie Antoinette said to inhabit Versailles
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Gorgeous Guy: Man uses multiple aliases to create internet craze about himself
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Hunting For Bambi: Hunting naked women with paintball guns
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Jetplane breaks the sound barrier: An amazing photo showing a vapor cone forming around a jetplane as it approaches the speed of sound. Is it real or fake?
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Joseph Mulholland: newspaper satirist from the late 19th century
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Joseph Papp: Inventor of the 300 mph personal submarine
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Loch Ness Monster: the legendary Scottish sea serpent
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Lourdes Water: Scam artists tout holy water as a miracle cure
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Michael Jackson's Nose: What's the deal with his nose. Does he still have a real nose?
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Munchkin, the Monster Cat: It's the sequel to Snowball (see below). But this monster cat might be real.
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Outhouse Springs Bottled Water: A brand of bottled water fresh from the outhouse
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Peter Lynds: He's been hailed as the next Einstein, a college dropout who's a genius at physics, but is he also a woman named Brooke Jones?
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Piltdown Man: Perhaps the most notorious scientific fraud of all time
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Popeface: A rare photo of the pope sticking his tongue out. Real or fake?
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Princess Caraboo: A British woman pretends to be an oriental princess
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Sandeep Acharya's Perpetual Motion Machine: Yet another free-energy device
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Sawing the Island Off: A scheme from 1823 to tow the island of Manhattan out to sea and then turn it around
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See ID: Is it true you should write 'See ID' on the back of your credit card?
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Snowball the Monster Cat: Photo of a man holding an 87-pound cat
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Splat: A strange photo of an overweight person who has fallen down. Real or fake?
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Swiss Spaghetti Harvest: The classic April Fool's Day hoax from 1957
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Time Traveler Needs Dimensional Warp Generator: Spammer searches in vain for a time-travel device
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Too Skinny: Photos of anorexic supermodels. Real or fake?
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To Serve Rabbit: Man claims he ate his beloved pet rabbit after it died. Is he lying or telling the truth?
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Under The Bus: Suspicious video shows stunt in which a guy falls to the ground and lets a bus pass over him. How was the stunt done?
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War of the Worlds Broadcast: Orson Welles's famous radio hoax from 1938
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Win-Toilet-Paper Sweepstakes: Does this contest really offer toilet paper as a prize?
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