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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…
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…
Paulding County Hyena
On February 6, 1858 readers of the Cleveland Plain Dealer read the following shocking news: A HYENA LOOSE IN PAULDING COUNTY. — On Wednesday morning last, between three and four o’clock, a striped hyena broke loose from his cage in the barn of Mr. Eli Watson, a few miles west…
Traveling Stones of Pahranagat Valley
Type: Media Hoax. Summary: In 1867 Nevada journalist Dan De Quille described some stones with a curious property—whenever separated from each other they spontaneously moved back together. On October 26, 1867 a story appeared in Nevada’s Territorial Enterprise newspaper describing some unusual stones recently found in the Pahranagat Valley of…
Vrain Lucas
Type: Forgery. Summary: The counterfeits of a successful forger strained credulity. Few accounts of forgery are as strange as the case of Vrain Lucas. Lucas’s career as a forger began in 1851 when he met the esteemed French mathematician Michel Chasles. Lucas showed the mathematician a few letters he claimed…
