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Chesterfield Leper
Type: Product Rumor. Summary: During the 1930s sales of Chesterfield cigarettes plummeted because of a rumor that a leper worked in one of their factories. This 1935 ad for Chesterfield cigarettes had the caption: “Machines like this—new and modern in every respect—make Chesterfields.”In the Fall of 1934 a rumor swept…
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,…
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…
John Harvey Kellogg
Type: Questionable Medicine. Summary: John Harvey Kellogg was a brilliant surgeon, the creator of corn flakes cereal, and health faddist who bordered on quackery. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Brothers John Harvey and Will Keith Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan invented the breakfast cereal industry. Will Keith Kellogg was the business…
Kaycee Nicole Swenson
Type: Online Impostor. Summary: A woman attracted many friends online by pretending to be a young girl dying of cancer. Kaycee Nicole was a nineteen-year-old girl from Kansas dying of cancer. Or so believed the thousands of people who visited her website on which she kept a diary of her…
Vilcabamba
Type: Anthropological Hoax. Summary: During the 1970s, the Ecuadorian town of Vilcabamba became famous because of the apparent longevity of its residents. The town’s small population appeared to include numerous people over the age of 100. Later researchers discovered that the town’s elderly residents were systematically exaggerating their ages. In…
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Chesterfield Leper
Type: Product Rumor. Summary: During the 1930s sales of Chesterfield cigarettes plummeted because of a rumor that a leper worked in one of their factories. This 1935 ad for Chesterfield cigarettes had the caption: “Machines like this—new and modern in every respect—make Chesterfields.”In the Fall of 1934 a rumor swept…
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,…
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…
John Harvey Kellogg
Type: Questionable Medicine. Summary: John Harvey Kellogg was a brilliant surgeon, the creator of corn flakes cereal, and health faddist who bordered on quackery. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Brothers John Harvey and Will Keith Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan invented the breakfast cereal industry. Will Keith Kellogg was the business…
Kaycee Nicole Swenson
Type: Online Impostor. Summary: A woman attracted many friends online by pretending to be a young girl dying of cancer. Kaycee Nicole was a nineteen-year-old girl from Kansas dying of cancer. Or so believed the thousands of people who visited her website on which she kept a diary of her…
Vilcabamba
Type: Anthropological Hoax. Summary: During the 1970s, the Ecuadorian town of Vilcabamba became famous because of the apparent longevity of its residents. The town’s small population appeared to include numerous people over the age of 100. Later researchers discovered that the town’s elderly residents were systematically exaggerating their ages. In…