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April Fools Day - 1844
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1844.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Train to Drogheda The Train to Drogheda During the final week of March, 1844 placards appeared all around Dublin advertising that…
April Fools Day - 1860
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1860.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Viewing the Lions Viewing the Lions Late in March 1860 numerous people throughout London received the following invitation: “Tower of London—Admit Bearer…
April Fools Day - 1866
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1866.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Procession of the Animals The Procession of the Animals On April 1, 1866 several hundred people showed up at the gates…
April Fools Day - 1878
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1878.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Edison’s Food Machine Edison’s Food Machine After Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, Americans were quite willing to believe there was…
April Fools Day - 1888
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1888.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Monster of Deadman’s Hole The Monster of Deadman’s Hole The San Diego Union reported that two hunters had killed a bizarre,…
April Fools Day - 1900
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1900.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Mouse Prank Goes Bad Edith Walrach, a nineteen-year-old woman of a “very nervous temperament,” was said to be in serious condition as a result…
April Fools Day - 1915
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1915.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Table of Contents Bombs Away The Boston Globe Price Cut Tony Maloney, aka Babe Webster Help Wanted Candy Surprise Do Not Kick April Fool’s Day…
April Fools Day - 1919
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1919.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Venetian Horse Mystery The Venetian Horse Mystery The citizens of Venice woke on the morning of April Fool’s Day to find…
April Fools Day - 1920
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1920.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Table of Contents Mr. Stiff, Please! Calling Dr. Lyon Prehistoric Skeletons April Fool Alibi Gasoline Alley Desperate Hubby April Fool Riot Call Ill-Timed Joke References…
April Fools Day - 1925
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1925.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Table of Contents No Mr. Fish Undertakers Pranked Dr. Stransky’s Dinner Party Sell! Mme. Pompadour’s Metric Measure Critics of Catholicism receive Catholic medal Moon Mullins…
April Fools Day - 1933
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1933.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Wisconsin State Capitol Collapses Wisconsin State Capitol Collapses The Madison Capital-Times ran a picture on its front page showing the dome of…
April Fools Day - 1934
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1934.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Man Flies By Own Lung Power Man Flies By Own Lung Power In 1934 many American newspapers, including The New York Times,…
April Fools Day - 1936
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1936.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Vikings in Hawaii Philadelphia Sea Monster Vikings in Hawaii The Honolulu Star-Bulletin ran a story about the discovery of a Viking ship…
April Fools Day - 1937
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1937.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database In the “Pictures to the Editors” section of its March 22, 1937 issue, Life magazine published four photographs sent in by a correspondent who…
April Fools Day - 1940
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1940.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents World To End Tomorrow Association for the Prevention of April Fool Jokes April Fool Experiment Hutchins Quits St. Louis Zoo Changes its Number…
April Fools Day - 1949
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1949.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Great Wasp Swarm Hoax The Great Wasp Swarm Hoax Phil Shone, a New Zealand deejay for radio station 1ZB, announced to…
April Fools Day - 1950
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1950.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents French Actress Kidnapped Skyforest Orange Trees Hawaiian Flying Saucer Flying Bus Pennsylvania Flying Saucer German Flying Saucers “Too Sexy” headline banned The Dailys…
April Fools Day - 1959
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1959.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Hawaiian Tax Refund Kokomo Police Cut Costs The Hawaiian Tax Refund A radio station in Hawaii announced that Congress had authorized…
April Fools Day - 1960
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Items in the news from April Fool’s Day, 1960.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Leaning Tower of Pisa Falls Over Stupid Safecracker There’s an elephant in my yard Atomic Sub in Bedford Fewer Fools “April…
April Fools Day - 1965
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1965.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Smellovision Taxes Fund Private Club Smellovision BBC TV interviewed a professor who had just invented a device called “smellovision.” It allowed viewers…
April Fools Day - 1969
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1965.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Soviets Land in Kankakee Soviets Land in Kankakee The Daily Journal, a newspaper based in Kankakee, Illinois, reported that a Soviet space…
April Fools Day - 1971
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1971.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Europeans To Drive On Left Side Europeans To Drive On Left Side A French state-run radio station announced that European motorists were…
April Fools Day - 1972
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1972.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Around the World for 210 Guineas Dutch Government Shares Budget Surplus Around the World for 210 Guineas 1972 was the 100-year anniversary…
April Fools Day - 1973
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1973.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Village of Spiggot Boycotts Metric System Dutch Elm Disease Infects Redheads The Village of Spiggot Boycotts Metric System Westward Television, a…
April Fools Day - 1974
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1974.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe Residents of Sitka, Alaska were alarmed when the long-dormant volcano neighboring them,…
April Fools Day - 1975
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1975.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Musendrophilus The Banbury Inscription Snell’s African Journey Foley Island to be Towed The Musendrophilus The famous naturalist David Attenborough gave a…
April Fools Day - 1976
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1976.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity Pennsylvania Capitol Building Collapses First Practical Touring Machine King Kong Climbs CN Tower Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity British astronomer…
April Fools Day - 1977
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1977.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents San Serriffe Hair-Restoring Well Bionic Horse Wordsworth’s Cottage Sold Gasoline for Statue San Serriffe The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement describing the…
April Fools Day - 1978
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1978.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Sydney Iceberg Superior Fishing Thread The Sydney Iceberg A barge appeared in Sydney Harbor towing a giant iceberg. Sydneysiders were expecting…
April Fools Day - 1979
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1979.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Operation Parallax Topless Protestors Radiation Rouses Prehistoric Creatures The Talking Pelican Operation Parallax Capital Radio, a London radio station, announced that Operation Parallax…
April Fools Day - 1980
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1980.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Big Ben Goes Digital The Eruption of Mt. Milton The Island of Murango The Real Sherlock Holmes Gazette Buys New London Day Big…
April Fools Day - 1981
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1981.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The 26-Day Marathon The Michigan Shark Experiment The British Weather Machine KNOSH Food Network The Black-Hole Diode CBS Newsmen Buy Local Weekly The…
April Fools Day - 1982
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1982.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Interfering Brassieres Tass Expands into American Market Athens Pollution Alert Hong Kong Powdered Water The Laytonsville Dump Stadium The TNBC Network The…
April Fools Day - 1983
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1983.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Origin of April Fool’s Day Dihydrogen Oxide The Perrier Channel The Origin of April Fool’s Day The debate over the origins of…
April Fools Day - 1984
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1984.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Tasmanian Mock Walrus Kremvax Tingle—The Video The Durand Auto Plant Daylight Savings Contest Retrobreeding the Woolly Mammoth The Tasmanian Mock Walrus …
April Fools Day - 1985
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1985.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Sidd Finch Lowering the Congressional Minimum Age Thermal Ties School For Sale The New York City Packers Families limited to .75 children…
April Fools Day - 1986
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1986.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Danish Government Demands British Stop Driving On Left Side of Road City of Providence Closes For Day Eiffel Tower Moves Soviet Missile…
April Fools Day - 1987
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1987.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents First Photograph Discovered LA Highways Close For Repairs The Clegg GTi Turbo Campus Parody Turns Ugly First Photograph Discovered The camera manufacturer…
April Fools Day - 1988
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1988.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database The Napoleonic Chunnel The Daily Mail revealed the discovery of a tunnel linking England and France that had been constructed during the Napoleonic wars.…
April Fools Day - 1989
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1989.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents UFO Lands Near London Driver’s Weight Sensors April Fool’s Wedding Barbara Bush Goes Red Soundproof Paint Secretary of State Baker Introduces Himself…
April Fools Day - 1990
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1990.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Five-Wheel Drive Chunnel Blunder Mona Lisa Frowns Augusta National Turns Public Scotland on Sunday Becomes A Daily The Guardian for Sunday Moore’s…
April Fools Day - 1991
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1991.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The One-Way Highway Stonehenge To Move The Rich People’s Liberation Front Chickpanzees The Red-Foliaged Cabbage Patch Doll Queen Faces Challenger First Annual…
April Fools Day - 1992
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1992.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Nixon For President Caffeine Manager Welcome to Chicago Smithsonian Peanut Butter Conference Belgium Divides Space Shuttle Lands in Belgium No Speed Limit…
April Fools Day - 1993
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1993.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Space Shuttle Lands in San Diego Chinese April Fools Barnes Wallis Moth Machine Asterix Village Found Beer Truck Must Be Drained Radio…
April Fools Day - 1994
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1994.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Drunk Driving on the Internet Vodka Bars Spray-on Tights and Spray-on Hair Russian Political Jokes Flying Rabbit Superworms Margaret Thatcher Discovered to…
April Fools Day - 1995
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1995.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers Euro Disney Lenin Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers Discover Magazine published an article detailing the discovery by wildlife biologist…
April Fools Day - 1996
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1996.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Taco Liberty Bell Life Discovered on Jupiter The Taco Liberty Bell The fast food chain Taco Bell took out a full…
April Fools Day - 1997
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1997.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Internet Spring Cleaning WAIL Internet Spring Cleaning A message spread throughout the internet announcing that the internet would be shut down for…
April Fools Day - 1998
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1998.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Left-Handed Whopper Guinness Mean Time Smaugia Volans The Left-Handed Whopper Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing…
April Fools Day - 1999
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1999.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Webnode Telepathic E-Mail Total Home Remote Electricity vBay Azcot Euro Anthem Y2K solved St. Louis Arena Fund Bank Teller Fees Zebra Savings…
April Fools Day - 2000
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2000.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Freewheelz 15th Annual New York City April Fool’s Day Parade FatSox M3 Zebra Crossing OPEC Free Fuel Offer Freewheelz Esquire magazine introduced its…
April Fools Day - 2001
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2001.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Interview With President Carter Sky Becoming Less Blue Royalty Fees for Impersonations Darcey Bussell To Be Next Bond Woman New Aspen Law School…
April Fools Day - 2002
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2002.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Media Pranks Federally Funded Health Care for Pets Figment, The Safe Cigarette Dodo Returns from the Dead Harmony Cousins Pay-for-Programming Radio Service Martha…
April Fools Day - 2003
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2003.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Media Pranks Shellac, Sound of the Future National Public Radio’s All Things Considered ran a segment about the efforts by preservationists to transfer audio recordings…
April Fools Day - 2004
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2004.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Media Pranks Portable Zip Codes Hawkeye Cameras Catch Speeders The Queen Visits the Bookie Medical ID Chips Day Lost to Stronger Trade Winds…
April Fools Day - 2005
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2005.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Media Pranks Migrant Mother Makeover Exploding Maple Trees Orchestra Steroid Scandal Steve Jobs Joins Ikea Bush Twins Enlist Scientists Concede Creationists Might Be…
A Neglected Anniversary
Type: Journalistic Hoax. Summary: Text of an article detailing a false history of the bathtub. What follows is the complete text of Henry L. Mencken’s article “A Neglected Anniversary,” published in the New York Evening Mail on December 28, 1917. The article presents a false history of the bathtub. Details…
Calaveras Skull
Type: Hoax. Summary: A practical joke by miners confused scientists for decades. Front view of the Calaveras SkullOn February 25, 1866 workers found a human skull buried deep inside a mine on Bald Mountain in Calaveras County, California. The skull was located 130 feet below the surface, beneath a layer…
Case of the Midwife Toad
Type: Scientific Fraud. Summary: Scaly bumps that suddenly appeared on a species of toad were offered as proof of Lamarckian inheritance. But the bumps turned out to be injected inkspots. Paul KammererCan acquired characteristics be passed on to one’s offspring? For instance, if a person acquires a limp during their…
Case of the Miraculous Bullet
Type: Scientific Hoax. Summary: A journal article published in 1874 described the case of a woman impregnated by a bullet that had first passed through the testicles of a soldier. In November 1874 an unusual article appeared in the introductory volume of The American Medical Weekly, a Louisville medical journal.…
Cassie Chadwick
Type: Con Artist. Summary: A woman financed a lavish lifestyle by claiming to be the daughter of Andrew Carnegie. Cassie Chadwick claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie. She said that Carnegie was paying her huge sums of money in order to keep their relationship a secret. Based…
Claire Chazal Experiment
Type: Literary Hoax. Summary: A French magazine mocked a celebrity author by submitting a disguised copy of her novel to her own publisher, which rejected it. Claire Chazal Claire Chazal was a well-known newswoman who presented the evening news on France’s TF1 network. Like many French celebrities, she had decided…
Death in the Air
Type: Photo Hoax. Summary: Photographs of World War One aerial dogfights were, decades later, discovered to have been faked. A book called Death in the Air: The War Diary and Photographs of a Flying Corps Pilot was published in 1933. It contained numerous pages of spectacular aerial photographs of World…
Death of Titan Leeds
Type: Hoax. Summary: A (fake) astrologer predicted the death of his rival. Poor Richard’s Almanac. Poor Richard’s Almanac was a yearly almanac written by a hen-pecked, poverty-stricken scholar named Richard Saunders. It first appeared in 1733, offering a collection of wit, poetry, as well as some prophecies. In its first…
Dominion of Melchizedek
Type: Fictitious Country. Summary: The Dominion of Melchizedek was a non-existent island country established by father and son con artists, Evan and Mark Pedley. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Melchizedek is a country that has no physical presence on the planet, yet its home to hundreds of financial institutions. ……
Duckbilled Platypus
Type: Real creature suspected of being fake. Summary: When western naturalists first discovered the duckbilled platypus, they suspected it was a hoax. HOAX HAIKUThe bizarre creaureIn the river must be miffed,‘Cause he isn’t real(by J) Egg-laying mammal With duck-bill that doesn’t quack (Man that is so wack!) (by SP)Submit a…
Eighteenth-Century Literary Hoaxes
Type: Literary Hoaxes. Summary: The eighteenth century is regarded as the great age of literary forgery. During the eighteenth century literary fakes poured forth from the pens of writers. A number of factors contributed to this. First, this was the period during which print culture became ascendant over oral culture.…
Empire City Massacre
Type: Media Hoax. Summary: Mark Twain invented a tale of a gruesome murder in order to embarrass the San Francisco newspapers. In 1863 San Francisco newspapers were spilling a lot of ink lambasting mining ventures that were cooking their books, and these same papers were encouraging investors to put their…
Emulex Stockmarket Hoax
A US Attorney announces the arrest of Mark Jakob at a press conference held on August 31, 2000. Behind him, a chart shows the downward spike that the hoax caused in the stock price of Emulex. On August 25 2000, shareholders of Emulex Corp. were greeted in the morning by…
Enigmatical Prophecies
Type: Hoax. Summary: A (fake) astrologer made ambiguous prophecies that inevitably came true. Poor, henpecked Richard Saunders was the apparent author of an annual American almanac, Poor Richard’s Almanac. But the real author was Benjamin Franklin. In 1736 Franklin put the credibility of his pseudonym on the line by making…
Filipino Monkey
Type: Rogue radio operator. Summary: For decades a mysterious prankster has interrupted ship-to-ship radio communications with obscenities and threats. The Filipino Monkey is the name of an infamous rogue radio operator who interjects lewd jokes, threats, obscenities, and animal noises into ship-to-ship radio communications conducted on VHF marine channel 16…
Flemish Secession Hoax
Type: Television News Hoax. Summary: In 2006, on a Belgian TV station news broadcast, it was announced that Flanders, the Dutch-speaking half of the country, had seceded from the country. Thirty minutes into the news bulletin, only after the station’s phonelines were swamped, it was revealed to be a hoax.…
Forgeries of the Medieval Church
Taken as a whole, medieval monks and clerics were probably the most prolific forgers of all time. For centuries they controlled access to official documents, placing them in a perfect position to alter or forge those documents, should they so desire. And judging by the volume of their output, they…
Freewheelz
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: An article described a company that gave away free cars. AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database The April 2000 issue of Esquire magazine included an article titled “There Are No Free Wheels” about a company called Freewheelz.…
Fritz Kreisler
Type: Musical Hoax. Summary: The musician Fritz Kreisler claimed that works he had written himself were actually “lost classics” written by famous composers. Fritz Kreisler During the early twentieth century, Fritz Kreisler was considered to be one of the leading violinists of his time. Part of his popularity stemmed from…
George Washington Petrified
Type: Newspaper hoax. Summary: An article widely reprinted around the time of the first centennial of the United States alleged that the remains of George Washington had become petrified. In early 1877, an article appeared in many American newspapers alleging that the remains of General George Washington had been discovered…
Ghostly Drummer of Tedworth
The ghostly drummer of Tedworth, from Joseph Glanvill’s Saducismus Triumphatus, 1681 In March, 1661 John Mompesson of Tedworth (located in Wiltshire, England) brought a lawsuit against a local drummer whom he accused of collecting money under false pretences. The court found the drummer guilty, confiscated his drum, and gave it…
Giant Bear
Type: Real photos, inaccurate captions. Summary: Photos circulated via email showed a hunter posing with an enormous bear. Theodore Winnen poses with the bear he shot.A photo showing a hunter posing with an incredibly large bear began to circulate via email in late 2001. The large size of the bear…
Grahams Celestial Bed
Type: Medical Quackery. Summary: During the eighteenth century, James Graham advertised an “electric bed” as a cure-all. A practitioner of Electric Medicine at work. From Johann Gottlieb Schaeffer, Die electrische Medicin (Regensburg, 1766).James Graham was one of the most notorious quacks of the 18th century. He was also extremely popular,…
Great Chess Automaton
Type: Technology Hoax. Summary: Centuries before IBM built Deep Blue, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen built what he claimed was a “thinking machine” that could play chess against human opponents. A woodcut of the Turk that accompanied Poe’s 1836 article. According to Poe it was a ‘tolerable representation’ of the automaton.…
Great Rose Bowl Hoax
Type: College Prank. Summary: Caltech students succeeded in altering the University of Washington’s halftime flip-card routine during the 1961 Rose Bowl in order to read “CALTECH”. Rose Bowl tickets are now available for the Rose Bowl Parade and bowl game. Buy college bowl tickets and find NCAA football tickets throughout…
History of the Bathtub
Type: Hoax. Summary: A widely circulated tale claimed that Americans were initially reluctant to use bathtubs when they were introduced during the mid-nineteenth century. On December 28, 1917 the journalist Henry L. Mencken published an article in the New York Evening Mail titled “A Neglected Anniversary.” It described the curious…
Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer
Type: April Fool’s Day hoax. Summary: An article in Discover described the discovery of a bizarre new Antarctic species. Image that accompanied the article in Discover. The caption read: “Proud and Free, a fierce ice borer bellows a challenge.” The April 1995 issue of Discover Magazine contained a brief article…
Instant Color TV
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: In 1962 Swedish television viewers were told they could receive color reception by placing a nylon stocking over the screen. Instant Color TV is listed at #3 in the Museum’s list of the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time. INSTANT COLOR…
Interfering Brassieres
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: An article warned women that their bras might be causing television interference. AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database On April 1, 1982 the British Daily Mail published an article titled “Do not adjust your set—it could be…
Jack Kelley
Type: Rogue Reporter. Summary: In 2004, it was uncovered that Jack Kelley, one of USA Today’s most respected reporters, a five-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, had been fabricating major news stories at least since 1991. Posted by: Elliot Feldman In 2004 it was uncovered that Jack Kelley, one of USA Today’s…
James Macpherson and the Ossianic Controversy
Type: Literary hoax. Summary: An eighteenth-century schoolmaster claimed to have found poems written by a third-century Scottish bard. The poems were actually written by the schoolmaster himself. James MacphersonIn 1760 a young Edinburgh schoolmaster named James Macpherson (1736-1796) published a translation of ancient Scottish verse titled Fragments of Ancient Poetry,…
Janet Cardiff - Walking Tours
Type: Art that blurs fiction and reality. Summary: Canadian installation artist Janet Cardiff has created a new art genre: alternative big city historical walking tours. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Janet Cardiff (born March 15, 1957) is a highly acclaimed Canadian multimedia artist. She is best known for creating a new…
Jane Austen Rejected
Could Jane Austen, one of the most celebrated and popular writers in the English language, get published today? To find out, David Lassman, director of the Jane Austen Festival in Bath, typed up some opening chapters of her books, added a cover letter with plot synopses, and sent them off…
Jedi Knight Religion
Ewan McGregor as the Jedi Obi-wan Kenobi As the 2001 census geared up in Britain, an e-mail began to spread declaring that if 10,000 people listed their religious affiliation on the census form as Jedi Knight, then the government would be forced to acknowledge ‘Jediism’ as an officially recognized faith.…
Joice Heth
Type: Show-business hoax. Summary: An elderly black woman claimed to be the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington. A pamphlet advertising the exhibition of Joice HethJoice Heth was an elderly black woman whom a young P.T. Barnum put on display in 1835, advertising that she was the 161 year…
Jonathan Swift
Type: Satirist. Summary: Jonathan Swift penned some of the most famous satires (and satirical hoaxes) of the eighteenth century. Jonathan SwiftThe relationship between satire and hoaxing is complex. Satire is defined as the use of wit to expose stupidity or vice, whereas a hoax is a sensational act of deception.…
Joseph Mulhattan
Type: Media Hoaxer. Summary: During the late nineteenth century, Mulhattan was widely known for his love of hoaxing newspapers. Joseph MulhattanDuring the 1870s and 1880s Joseph Mulhattan was perhaps the most famous hoaxer in America. He was a traveling salesman, not a reporter, but he was notorious for repeatedly succeeding…
Journal of Charles LeRaye
Title page of A Topographical Description of the State of Ohio, Indiana Territory, And LouisianaIn 1812 a Boston printer published an anonymously authored book titled A Topographical Description of the State of Ohio, Indiana Territory, and Louisiana. Appended to this book was a section described as “An Interesting Journal of…
Lady Liberty on Lake Mendota
Type: College Prank. Summary: The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Pail and Shovel Party promised that, if elected to student government, they would move the Statue of Liberty to Lake Mendota, and they made good on their promise. Lady Liberty sinks into Lake Mendota. (Photograph by Ravi Kochhar). In February 1979 an…
Locals - 19th Century Newspaper Hoaxes
The creation of the penny press during the 1830s completely changed the character of the news business. The older six-penny papers had confined themselves to business and political news, but the penny papers discovered that there was a huge market for local news: stories about neighborhood crimes, police reports, social…
Lost Island of Hi-Brazil
Type: Geographical Legend. Summary: For centuries European map-makers believed that an island called Hi-Brazil was located in the Atlantic, even though no such island had ever been found. Detail from the Catalan map of 1350 showing the location of Hi-Brazil. (Image from Donald Johnson’s Phantom Islands of the Atlantic) In…
Madagascar or Robert Drurys Journal
Type: Undetermined. Probably not a hoax. Summary: There has been continuing debate about whether a popular tale describing survival in eighteenth-century Madagascar was truth or fiction. Ask your average eighteenth-century Englishman about the faraway land of Madagascar, and all you’d get was a blank stare. For the English, Madagascar was…
Manbeef.com
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website offered to sell human flesh. Manbeef.com appeared online in early 2001 and immediately caused a sensation. The site claimed to sell human flesh for the “sophisticated human meat consumer.” Visitors to the site could read the ‘recipe of the day’ as they viewed pictures…
Man Flies By Own Lung Power
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: A widely printed photograph showed a man flying by means of a device powered by the breath of his lungs. AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database In April 1934 numerous U.S. newspapers printed a photograph distributed by…
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April Fools Day - 1844
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1844.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Train to Drogheda The Train to Drogheda During the final week of March, 1844 placards appeared all around Dublin advertising that…
April Fools Day - 1860
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1860.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Viewing the Lions Viewing the Lions Late in March 1860 numerous people throughout London received the following invitation: “Tower of London—Admit Bearer…
April Fools Day - 1866
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1866.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Procession of the Animals The Procession of the Animals On April 1, 1866 several hundred people showed up at the gates…
April Fools Day - 1878
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1878.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Edison’s Food Machine Edison’s Food Machine After Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, Americans were quite willing to believe there was…
April Fools Day - 1888
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1888.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Monster of Deadman’s Hole The Monster of Deadman’s Hole The San Diego Union reported that two hunters had killed a bizarre,…
April Fools Day - 1900
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1900.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Mouse Prank Goes Bad Edith Walrach, a nineteen-year-old woman of a “very nervous temperament,” was said to be in serious condition as a result…
April Fools Day - 1915
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1915.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Table of Contents Bombs Away The Boston Globe Price Cut Tony Maloney, aka Babe Webster Help Wanted Candy Surprise Do Not Kick April Fool’s Day…
April Fools Day - 1919
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1919.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Venetian Horse Mystery The Venetian Horse Mystery The citizens of Venice woke on the morning of April Fool’s Day to find…
April Fools Day - 1920
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1920.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Table of Contents Mr. Stiff, Please! Calling Dr. Lyon Prehistoric Skeletons April Fool Alibi Gasoline Alley Desperate Hubby April Fool Riot Call Ill-Timed Joke References…
April Fools Day - 1925
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1925.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Table of Contents No Mr. Fish Undertakers Pranked Dr. Stransky’s Dinner Party Sell! Mme. Pompadour’s Metric Measure Critics of Catholicism receive Catholic medal Moon Mullins…
April Fools Day - 1933
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1933.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Wisconsin State Capitol Collapses Wisconsin State Capitol Collapses The Madison Capital-Times ran a picture on its front page showing the dome of…
April Fools Day - 1934
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1934.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Man Flies By Own Lung Power Man Flies By Own Lung Power In 1934 many American newspapers, including The New York Times,…
April Fools Day - 1936
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1936.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Vikings in Hawaii Philadelphia Sea Monster Vikings in Hawaii The Honolulu Star-Bulletin ran a story about the discovery of a Viking ship…
April Fools Day - 1937
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1937.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database In the “Pictures to the Editors” section of its March 22, 1937 issue, Life magazine published four photographs sent in by a correspondent who…
April Fools Day - 1940
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1940.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents World To End Tomorrow Association for the Prevention of April Fool Jokes April Fool Experiment Hutchins Quits St. Louis Zoo Changes its Number…
April Fools Day - 1949
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1949.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Great Wasp Swarm Hoax The Great Wasp Swarm Hoax Phil Shone, a New Zealand deejay for radio station 1ZB, announced to…
April Fools Day - 1950
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1950.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents French Actress Kidnapped Skyforest Orange Trees Hawaiian Flying Saucer Flying Bus Pennsylvania Flying Saucer German Flying Saucers “Too Sexy” headline banned The Dailys…
April Fools Day - 1959
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1959.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Hawaiian Tax Refund Kokomo Police Cut Costs The Hawaiian Tax Refund A radio station in Hawaii announced that Congress had authorized…
April Fools Day - 1960
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Items in the news from April Fool’s Day, 1960.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Leaning Tower of Pisa Falls Over Stupid Safecracker There’s an elephant in my yard Atomic Sub in Bedford Fewer Fools “April…
April Fools Day - 1965
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1965.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Smellovision Taxes Fund Private Club Smellovision BBC TV interviewed a professor who had just invented a device called “smellovision.” It allowed viewers…
April Fools Day - 1969
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1965.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Soviets Land in Kankakee Soviets Land in Kankakee The Daily Journal, a newspaper based in Kankakee, Illinois, reported that a Soviet space…
April Fools Day - 1971
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1971.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Europeans To Drive On Left Side Europeans To Drive On Left Side A French state-run radio station announced that European motorists were…
April Fools Day - 1972
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1972.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Around the World for 210 Guineas Dutch Government Shares Budget Surplus Around the World for 210 Guineas 1972 was the 100-year anniversary…
April Fools Day - 1973
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1973.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Village of Spiggot Boycotts Metric System Dutch Elm Disease Infects Redheads The Village of Spiggot Boycotts Metric System Westward Television, a…
April Fools Day - 1974
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1974.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe Residents of Sitka, Alaska were alarmed when the long-dormant volcano neighboring them,…
April Fools Day - 1975
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1975.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Musendrophilus The Banbury Inscription Snell’s African Journey Foley Island to be Towed The Musendrophilus The famous naturalist David Attenborough gave a…
April Fools Day - 1976
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1976.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity Pennsylvania Capitol Building Collapses First Practical Touring Machine King Kong Climbs CN Tower Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity British astronomer…
April Fools Day - 1977
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1977.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents San Serriffe Hair-Restoring Well Bionic Horse Wordsworth’s Cottage Sold Gasoline for Statue San Serriffe The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement describing the…
April Fools Day - 1978
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1978.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Sydney Iceberg Superior Fishing Thread The Sydney Iceberg A barge appeared in Sydney Harbor towing a giant iceberg. Sydneysiders were expecting…
April Fools Day - 1979
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1979.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Operation Parallax Topless Protestors Radiation Rouses Prehistoric Creatures The Talking Pelican Operation Parallax Capital Radio, a London radio station, announced that Operation Parallax…
April Fools Day - 1980
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1980.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Big Ben Goes Digital The Eruption of Mt. Milton The Island of Murango The Real Sherlock Holmes Gazette Buys New London Day Big…
April Fools Day - 1981
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1981.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The 26-Day Marathon The Michigan Shark Experiment The British Weather Machine KNOSH Food Network The Black-Hole Diode CBS Newsmen Buy Local Weekly The…
April Fools Day - 1982
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1982.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Interfering Brassieres Tass Expands into American Market Athens Pollution Alert Hong Kong Powdered Water The Laytonsville Dump Stadium The TNBC Network The…
April Fools Day - 1983
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1983.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Origin of April Fool’s Day Dihydrogen Oxide The Perrier Channel The Origin of April Fool’s Day The debate over the origins of…
April Fools Day - 1984
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1984.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Tasmanian Mock Walrus Kremvax Tingle—The Video The Durand Auto Plant Daylight Savings Contest Retrobreeding the Woolly Mammoth The Tasmanian Mock Walrus …
April Fools Day - 1985
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1985.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Sidd Finch Lowering the Congressional Minimum Age Thermal Ties School For Sale The New York City Packers Families limited to .75 children…
April Fools Day - 1986
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1986.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Danish Government Demands British Stop Driving On Left Side of Road City of Providence Closes For Day Eiffel Tower Moves Soviet Missile…
April Fools Day - 1987
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1987.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents First Photograph Discovered LA Highways Close For Repairs The Clegg GTi Turbo Campus Parody Turns Ugly First Photograph Discovered The camera manufacturer…
April Fools Day - 1988
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1988.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database The Napoleonic Chunnel The Daily Mail revealed the discovery of a tunnel linking England and France that had been constructed during the Napoleonic wars.…
April Fools Day - 1989
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1989.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents UFO Lands Near London Driver’s Weight Sensors April Fool’s Wedding Barbara Bush Goes Red Soundproof Paint Secretary of State Baker Introduces Himself…
April Fools Day - 1990
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1990.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Five-Wheel Drive Chunnel Blunder Mona Lisa Frowns Augusta National Turns Public Scotland on Sunday Becomes A Daily The Guardian for Sunday Moore’s…
April Fools Day - 1991
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1991.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The One-Way Highway Stonehenge To Move The Rich People’s Liberation Front Chickpanzees The Red-Foliaged Cabbage Patch Doll Queen Faces Challenger First Annual…
April Fools Day - 1992
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1992.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Nixon For President Caffeine Manager Welcome to Chicago Smithsonian Peanut Butter Conference Belgium Divides Space Shuttle Lands in Belgium No Speed Limit…
April Fools Day - 1993
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1993.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Space Shuttle Lands in San Diego Chinese April Fools Barnes Wallis Moth Machine Asterix Village Found Beer Truck Must Be Drained Radio…
April Fools Day - 1994
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1994.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Drunk Driving on the Internet Vodka Bars Spray-on Tights and Spray-on Hair Russian Political Jokes Flying Rabbit Superworms Margaret Thatcher Discovered to…
April Fools Day - 1995
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1995.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers Euro Disney Lenin Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers Discover Magazine published an article detailing the discovery by wildlife biologist…
April Fools Day - 1996
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1996.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Taco Liberty Bell Life Discovered on Jupiter The Taco Liberty Bell The fast food chain Taco Bell took out a full…
April Fools Day - 1997
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1997.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Internet Spring Cleaning WAIL Internet Spring Cleaning A message spread throughout the internet announcing that the internet would be shut down for…
April Fools Day - 1998
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1998.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Left-Handed Whopper Guinness Mean Time Smaugia Volans The Left-Handed Whopper Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing…
April Fools Day - 1999
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1999.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Webnode Telepathic E-Mail Total Home Remote Electricity vBay Azcot Euro Anthem Y2K solved St. Louis Arena Fund Bank Teller Fees Zebra Savings…
April Fools Day - 2000
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2000.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Freewheelz 15th Annual New York City April Fool’s Day Parade FatSox M3 Zebra Crossing OPEC Free Fuel Offer Freewheelz Esquire magazine introduced its…
April Fools Day - 2001
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2001.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Interview With President Carter Sky Becoming Less Blue Royalty Fees for Impersonations Darcey Bussell To Be Next Bond Woman New Aspen Law School…
April Fools Day - 2002
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2002.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Media Pranks Federally Funded Health Care for Pets Figment, The Safe Cigarette Dodo Returns from the Dead Harmony Cousins Pay-for-Programming Radio Service Martha…
April Fools Day - 2003
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2003.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Media Pranks Shellac, Sound of the Future National Public Radio’s All Things Considered ran a segment about the efforts by preservationists to transfer audio recordings…
April Fools Day - 2004
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2004.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Media Pranks Portable Zip Codes Hawkeye Cameras Catch Speeders The Queen Visits the Bookie Medical ID Chips Day Lost to Stronger Trade Winds…
April Fools Day - 2005
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2005.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Media Pranks Migrant Mother Makeover Exploding Maple Trees Orchestra Steroid Scandal Steve Jobs Joins Ikea Bush Twins Enlist Scientists Concede Creationists Might Be…
A Neglected Anniversary
Type: Journalistic Hoax. Summary: Text of an article detailing a false history of the bathtub. What follows is the complete text of Henry L. Mencken’s article “A Neglected Anniversary,” published in the New York Evening Mail on December 28, 1917. The article presents a false history of the bathtub. Details…
Calaveras Skull
Type: Hoax. Summary: A practical joke by miners confused scientists for decades. Front view of the Calaveras SkullOn February 25, 1866 workers found a human skull buried deep inside a mine on Bald Mountain in Calaveras County, California. The skull was located 130 feet below the surface, beneath a layer…
Case of the Midwife Toad
Type: Scientific Fraud. Summary: Scaly bumps that suddenly appeared on a species of toad were offered as proof of Lamarckian inheritance. But the bumps turned out to be injected inkspots. Paul KammererCan acquired characteristics be passed on to one’s offspring? For instance, if a person acquires a limp during their…
Case of the Miraculous Bullet
Type: Scientific Hoax. Summary: A journal article published in 1874 described the case of a woman impregnated by a bullet that had first passed through the testicles of a soldier. In November 1874 an unusual article appeared in the introductory volume of The American Medical Weekly, a Louisville medical journal.…
Cassie Chadwick
Type: Con Artist. Summary: A woman financed a lavish lifestyle by claiming to be the daughter of Andrew Carnegie. Cassie Chadwick claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie. She said that Carnegie was paying her huge sums of money in order to keep their relationship a secret. Based…
Claire Chazal Experiment
Type: Literary Hoax. Summary: A French magazine mocked a celebrity author by submitting a disguised copy of her novel to her own publisher, which rejected it. Claire Chazal Claire Chazal was a well-known newswoman who presented the evening news on France’s TF1 network. Like many French celebrities, she had decided…
Death in the Air
Type: Photo Hoax. Summary: Photographs of World War One aerial dogfights were, decades later, discovered to have been faked. A book called Death in the Air: The War Diary and Photographs of a Flying Corps Pilot was published in 1933. It contained numerous pages of spectacular aerial photographs of World…
Death of Titan Leeds
Type: Hoax. Summary: A (fake) astrologer predicted the death of his rival. Poor Richard’s Almanac. Poor Richard’s Almanac was a yearly almanac written by a hen-pecked, poverty-stricken scholar named Richard Saunders. It first appeared in 1733, offering a collection of wit, poetry, as well as some prophecies. In its first…
Dominion of Melchizedek
Type: Fictitious Country. Summary: The Dominion of Melchizedek was a non-existent island country established by father and son con artists, Evan and Mark Pedley. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Melchizedek is a country that has no physical presence on the planet, yet its home to hundreds of financial institutions. ……
Duckbilled Platypus
Type: Real creature suspected of being fake. Summary: When western naturalists first discovered the duckbilled platypus, they suspected it was a hoax. HOAX HAIKUThe bizarre creaureIn the river must be miffed,‘Cause he isn’t real(by J) Egg-laying mammal With duck-bill that doesn’t quack (Man that is so wack!) (by SP)Submit a…
Eighteenth-Century Literary Hoaxes
Type: Literary Hoaxes. Summary: The eighteenth century is regarded as the great age of literary forgery. During the eighteenth century literary fakes poured forth from the pens of writers. A number of factors contributed to this. First, this was the period during which print culture became ascendant over oral culture.…
Empire City Massacre
Type: Media Hoax. Summary: Mark Twain invented a tale of a gruesome murder in order to embarrass the San Francisco newspapers. In 1863 San Francisco newspapers were spilling a lot of ink lambasting mining ventures that were cooking their books, and these same papers were encouraging investors to put their…
Emulex Stockmarket Hoax
A US Attorney announces the arrest of Mark Jakob at a press conference held on August 31, 2000. Behind him, a chart shows the downward spike that the hoax caused in the stock price of Emulex. On August 25 2000, shareholders of Emulex Corp. were greeted in the morning by…
Enigmatical Prophecies
Type: Hoax. Summary: A (fake) astrologer made ambiguous prophecies that inevitably came true. Poor, henpecked Richard Saunders was the apparent author of an annual American almanac, Poor Richard’s Almanac. But the real author was Benjamin Franklin. In 1736 Franklin put the credibility of his pseudonym on the line by making…
Filipino Monkey
Type: Rogue radio operator. Summary: For decades a mysterious prankster has interrupted ship-to-ship radio communications with obscenities and threats. The Filipino Monkey is the name of an infamous rogue radio operator who interjects lewd jokes, threats, obscenities, and animal noises into ship-to-ship radio communications conducted on VHF marine channel 16…
Flemish Secession Hoax
Type: Television News Hoax. Summary: In 2006, on a Belgian TV station news broadcast, it was announced that Flanders, the Dutch-speaking half of the country, had seceded from the country. Thirty minutes into the news bulletin, only after the station’s phonelines were swamped, it was revealed to be a hoax.…
Forgeries of the Medieval Church
Taken as a whole, medieval monks and clerics were probably the most prolific forgers of all time. For centuries they controlled access to official documents, placing them in a perfect position to alter or forge those documents, should they so desire. And judging by the volume of their output, they…
Freewheelz
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: An article described a company that gave away free cars. AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database The April 2000 issue of Esquire magazine included an article titled “There Are No Free Wheels” about a company called Freewheelz.…
Fritz Kreisler
Type: Musical Hoax. Summary: The musician Fritz Kreisler claimed that works he had written himself were actually “lost classics” written by famous composers. Fritz Kreisler During the early twentieth century, Fritz Kreisler was considered to be one of the leading violinists of his time. Part of his popularity stemmed from…
George Washington Petrified
Type: Newspaper hoax. Summary: An article widely reprinted around the time of the first centennial of the United States alleged that the remains of George Washington had become petrified. In early 1877, an article appeared in many American newspapers alleging that the remains of General George Washington had been discovered…
Ghostly Drummer of Tedworth
The ghostly drummer of Tedworth, from Joseph Glanvill’s Saducismus Triumphatus, 1681 In March, 1661 John Mompesson of Tedworth (located in Wiltshire, England) brought a lawsuit against a local drummer whom he accused of collecting money under false pretences. The court found the drummer guilty, confiscated his drum, and gave it…
Giant Bear
Type: Real photos, inaccurate captions. Summary: Photos circulated via email showed a hunter posing with an enormous bear. Theodore Winnen poses with the bear he shot.A photo showing a hunter posing with an incredibly large bear began to circulate via email in late 2001. The large size of the bear…
Grahams Celestial Bed
Type: Medical Quackery. Summary: During the eighteenth century, James Graham advertised an “electric bed” as a cure-all. A practitioner of Electric Medicine at work. From Johann Gottlieb Schaeffer, Die electrische Medicin (Regensburg, 1766).James Graham was one of the most notorious quacks of the 18th century. He was also extremely popular,…
Great Chess Automaton
Type: Technology Hoax. Summary: Centuries before IBM built Deep Blue, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen built what he claimed was a “thinking machine” that could play chess against human opponents. A woodcut of the Turk that accompanied Poe’s 1836 article. According to Poe it was a ‘tolerable representation’ of the automaton.…
Great Rose Bowl Hoax
Type: College Prank. Summary: Caltech students succeeded in altering the University of Washington’s halftime flip-card routine during the 1961 Rose Bowl in order to read “CALTECH”. Rose Bowl tickets are now available for the Rose Bowl Parade and bowl game. Buy college bowl tickets and find NCAA football tickets throughout…
History of the Bathtub
Type: Hoax. Summary: A widely circulated tale claimed that Americans were initially reluctant to use bathtubs when they were introduced during the mid-nineteenth century. On December 28, 1917 the journalist Henry L. Mencken published an article in the New York Evening Mail titled “A Neglected Anniversary.” It described the curious…
Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer
Type: April Fool’s Day hoax. Summary: An article in Discover described the discovery of a bizarre new Antarctic species. Image that accompanied the article in Discover. The caption read: “Proud and Free, a fierce ice borer bellows a challenge.” The April 1995 issue of Discover Magazine contained a brief article…
Instant Color TV
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: In 1962 Swedish television viewers were told they could receive color reception by placing a nylon stocking over the screen. Instant Color TV is listed at #3 in the Museum’s list of the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time. INSTANT COLOR…
Interfering Brassieres
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: An article warned women that their bras might be causing television interference. AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database On April 1, 1982 the British Daily Mail published an article titled “Do not adjust your set—it could be…
Jack Kelley
Type: Rogue Reporter. Summary: In 2004, it was uncovered that Jack Kelley, one of USA Today’s most respected reporters, a five-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, had been fabricating major news stories at least since 1991. Posted by: Elliot Feldman In 2004 it was uncovered that Jack Kelley, one of USA Today’s…
James Macpherson and the Ossianic Controversy
Type: Literary hoax. Summary: An eighteenth-century schoolmaster claimed to have found poems written by a third-century Scottish bard. The poems were actually written by the schoolmaster himself. James MacphersonIn 1760 a young Edinburgh schoolmaster named James Macpherson (1736-1796) published a translation of ancient Scottish verse titled Fragments of Ancient Poetry,…
Janet Cardiff - Walking Tours
Type: Art that blurs fiction and reality. Summary: Canadian installation artist Janet Cardiff has created a new art genre: alternative big city historical walking tours. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Janet Cardiff (born March 15, 1957) is a highly acclaimed Canadian multimedia artist. She is best known for creating a new…
Jane Austen Rejected
Could Jane Austen, one of the most celebrated and popular writers in the English language, get published today? To find out, David Lassman, director of the Jane Austen Festival in Bath, typed up some opening chapters of her books, added a cover letter with plot synopses, and sent them off…
Jedi Knight Religion
Ewan McGregor as the Jedi Obi-wan Kenobi As the 2001 census geared up in Britain, an e-mail began to spread declaring that if 10,000 people listed their religious affiliation on the census form as Jedi Knight, then the government would be forced to acknowledge ‘Jediism’ as an officially recognized faith.…
Joice Heth
Type: Show-business hoax. Summary: An elderly black woman claimed to be the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington. A pamphlet advertising the exhibition of Joice HethJoice Heth was an elderly black woman whom a young P.T. Barnum put on display in 1835, advertising that she was the 161 year…
Jonathan Swift
Type: Satirist. Summary: Jonathan Swift penned some of the most famous satires (and satirical hoaxes) of the eighteenth century. Jonathan SwiftThe relationship between satire and hoaxing is complex. Satire is defined as the use of wit to expose stupidity or vice, whereas a hoax is a sensational act of deception.…
Joseph Mulhattan
Type: Media Hoaxer. Summary: During the late nineteenth century, Mulhattan was widely known for his love of hoaxing newspapers. Joseph MulhattanDuring the 1870s and 1880s Joseph Mulhattan was perhaps the most famous hoaxer in America. He was a traveling salesman, not a reporter, but he was notorious for repeatedly succeeding…
Journal of Charles LeRaye
Title page of A Topographical Description of the State of Ohio, Indiana Territory, And LouisianaIn 1812 a Boston printer published an anonymously authored book titled A Topographical Description of the State of Ohio, Indiana Territory, and Louisiana. Appended to this book was a section described as “An Interesting Journal of…
Lady Liberty on Lake Mendota
Type: College Prank. Summary: The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Pail and Shovel Party promised that, if elected to student government, they would move the Statue of Liberty to Lake Mendota, and they made good on their promise. Lady Liberty sinks into Lake Mendota. (Photograph by Ravi Kochhar). In February 1979 an…
Locals - 19th Century Newspaper Hoaxes
The creation of the penny press during the 1830s completely changed the character of the news business. The older six-penny papers had confined themselves to business and political news, but the penny papers discovered that there was a huge market for local news: stories about neighborhood crimes, police reports, social…
Lost Island of Hi-Brazil
Type: Geographical Legend. Summary: For centuries European map-makers believed that an island called Hi-Brazil was located in the Atlantic, even though no such island had ever been found. Detail from the Catalan map of 1350 showing the location of Hi-Brazil. (Image from Donald Johnson’s Phantom Islands of the Atlantic) In…
Madagascar or Robert Drurys Journal
Type: Undetermined. Probably not a hoax. Summary: There has been continuing debate about whether a popular tale describing survival in eighteenth-century Madagascar was truth or fiction. Ask your average eighteenth-century Englishman about the faraway land of Madagascar, and all you’d get was a blank stare. For the English, Madagascar was…
Manbeef.com
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website offered to sell human flesh. Manbeef.com appeared online in early 2001 and immediately caused a sensation. The site claimed to sell human flesh for the “sophisticated human meat consumer.” Visitors to the site could read the ‘recipe of the day’ as they viewed pictures…
Man Flies By Own Lung Power
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: A widely printed photograph showed a man flying by means of a device powered by the breath of his lungs. AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database In April 1934 numerous U.S. newspapers printed a photograph distributed by…
