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 - 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…

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. ……

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…

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…

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…

Press Your Luck Scandal
Type:   Beating the System. Summary: A contestant became a big winner on a game show by realizing that the computerized game sequence was not random. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Michael Larson plays Press Your LuckOn May 19, 1984, Michael Larson, an unemployed ice cream truck driver from Lebanon, Ohio,…