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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…
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…
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…
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…
Milton Rejected
Type: Literary Hoax Summary: During the late nineteenth-century a hoaxer sent disguised copies of a work by John Milton to publishers, most of whom rejected it. Text from: Walsh, William. (1893). Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities. J.B. Lippincott Company. Philadelphia. 1893: 469-470. A very different sort of hoax was recently practised…
Stamp Hoax
Type: Hoax. Summary: Wealthy stamp collector included an unusual stipulation in his will. The following case was reported in The Fort Wayne News, Monday, June 25, 1900. Details have not been verified. The identity of this collector is unknown: The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Record tells of a hoax…
Sympsychography
Type: Hoax. Summary: A scientific article describes a new photographic process that is able to capture thoughts on film. A sympsychographic image of a cat. From Popular Science Monthly (Sep., 1896): 601.An article by the famous scientist David Starr Jordan (president of Indiana University and Stanford University) appeared in the…
