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Bill and Mike Veeck Baseball Showmen
Type: Sports Summary: Father and son Bill and Mike Veeck revolutionized baseball with their wild and wacky stunts. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Between 1946 and 1979, Bill Veeck owned the Cleveland Indians, the St. Louis Browns, and the Chicago White Sox (twice). But Veeck was best known for bringing promotional…
Black Like Me
Type: Impostor. Summary: In 1959, a white man posed as a black man in the American Deep South for six weeks. The result was the bestselling book “Black Like Me.” Posted by: Elliot Feldman Black Like MeIn 1959, John Howard Griffin was a white native Texan novelist and journalist with…
Brooklyn Bridge Scams
Type: Scams. Summary: The “selling the Brooklyn Bridge” scam has been around almost as long as the Bridge itself. The article describes the origins of the “selling” scam as well as Steve Brodie’s own unique Bridge scam. Posted by: Elliot Feldman When construction ended on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883,…
Captain Crunch
Type: Hacker. Summary: In the early seventies, a group of hackers called “phone phreaks” emerged, earning notoriety by creating high-tech ways to beat the costs of long distance calls. “Cap’n Crunch” was the most notorious of them all. Posted by: Elliot Feldman blue box John Draper is one of Silicon…
Captain Midnight
Type: Hacker. Summary: In 1986 a tech-savvy hacker interrupted a cable channel broadcast with his own transmission. Posted by: Elliot Feldman On April 27, 1986, late night HBO subscribers watching the movie “The Falcon and the Snowman” were surprised by a sudden interruption of service. A color bar test pattern…
Church of the SubGenius
Type: Genuine religion, or a joke? Summary: The Church of the SubGenius has been around for 30 years—and some people even take it seriously. Posted by: Elliot Feldman “The Church of the SubGenius” is a religious and political satire movement that has blurred the line between hoax and reality for…
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. … Wait…
Elmer de Hory
Type: Forgery Summary: Elmyr de Hory fooled the art world for thirty years with his expert forgeries of works by Picasso, Renoir, and other masters. To this day, many of his forgeries remain undetected and are in museums and collections throughout the world. Posted by: Elliot Feldman In 1955, Harvard…
Fake News Comedy Shows
Type: Satire. Summary: A brief history of “fake news” comedy shows. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Before Jon Stewart While “The Daily Show” hits its targets more often than not, the line between “fake news” and real news seems to be blurring a bit in recent months. Show host Jon Stewart’s…
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.…
Great American Golf Hustlers
Type: Sports. Summary: Some of golf’s greatest players never went pro because they could make more money hustling millionaire country club suckers. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Some of golf’s greatest players have never become professionals for the simple reason that they could make much more money hustling country club multi-millionaires.…
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…
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…
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…
Kingdom of Redonda
Type: Fictitious Country. Summary: Science fiction author M.P. Shiel was also known as Felipe I, the second King of Redonda, an island nation that may or may not exist. Posted by: Elliot Feldman M.P. Shiel M.P. Shiel was a notable early 20th century British science fiction and fantasy author. Originally…
Marcel Duchamp
Type: Art Prankster. Summary: Throughout his career, French artist Marcel Duchamp was known for playing outrageous pranks on the art world. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) always held the snobbishness of art collectors and gallery owners in disdain. While he was a revolutionary artist with at least one…
New York Evening Graphic and Composographs
Type: Inventing the News. Summary: The story of publisher Bernarr MacFadden and The New York Evening Graphic, America’s first tabloid. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Although publisher Bernarr MacFadden’s newspaper, The New York Evening Graphic, only lasted a few years, its impact on mass media is still felt today, for better…
Paul Krassner and The Realist
Type: Hoaxer. Summary: In the sixties, Paul Krassner was one of the original Yippies. His magazine “The Realist” was known for perpetuating political hoaxes. Posted by: Elliot Feldman In 1958, at the height of the Cold War, Paul Krassner began publishing his magazine “The Realist.” It was deep leftist political…
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, won…
Principality of New Utopia
Type: Fictitious country. Summary: Howard Turney (AKA Lazarus Long) founded a “country” called New Utopia, supposedly based on the libertarian philosophy of novelist Ayn Rand. Unfortunately it became a center for offshore banking scams. Posted by: Elliot Feldman The Principality of New Utopia was an island country in the Caribbean…
Principality of Outer Baldonia
Type: Fictitious Country. Summary: The Principality of Outer Baldonia started as a practical joke among friends on a fishing trip and it became a country. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Russell Arundel was an executive with the Pepsi-Cola Company. He was also a well-known eccentric. In 1948, he purchased the four-acre…
Principality of Sealand
Type: Country of an ambiguous legal status. Summary: Sealand, the world’s smallest country, started as a WWII British naval installation, turned into a pirate radio station, and finally its own “country.” Posted by: Elliot Feldman Sealand. Sealand is the world’s smallest country, a fortified pontoon barge standing on two cylindrical…
Space Cadets
Type: Reality TV hoax. Summary: In 2005, the British television show “Space Cadets” pulled off the most expensive and elaborate hoax in English television history. Posted by: Elliot Feldman In 2005, all of Britain was talking about a new Channel 4 reality series, “Space Cadets.” The show’s alleged concept: twelve…
Walt Disney Frozen
Type: Urban Legend. Summary: According to rumor, Walt Disney’s cryogenically preserved body is kept in a tank under Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Walt Disney Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, but a rumor has long persisted that his body was cryogenically frozen and…
Weekly World News
Type: Parody. Summary: The life and death of satirical tabloid “The Weekly World News.” Posted by: Elliot Feldman The Death of the Weekly World News “The Weekly World News” was launched almost as an afterthought. It was a news-of-the-weird offshoot of “The National Enquirer.” In 1979, when The Enquirer and…
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Bill and Mike Veeck Baseball Showmen
Type: Sports Summary: Father and son Bill and Mike Veeck revolutionized baseball with their wild and wacky stunts. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Between 1946 and 1979, Bill Veeck owned the Cleveland Indians, the St. Louis Browns, and the Chicago White Sox (twice). But Veeck was best known for bringing promotional…
Black Like Me
Type: Impostor. Summary: In 1959, a white man posed as a black man in the American Deep South for six weeks. The result was the bestselling book “Black Like Me.” Posted by: Elliot Feldman Black Like MeIn 1959, John Howard Griffin was a white native Texan novelist and journalist with…
Brooklyn Bridge Scams
Type: Scams. Summary: The “selling the Brooklyn Bridge” scam has been around almost as long as the Bridge itself. The article describes the origins of the “selling” scam as well as Steve Brodie’s own unique Bridge scam. Posted by: Elliot Feldman When construction ended on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883,…
Captain Crunch
Type: Hacker. Summary: In the early seventies, a group of hackers called “phone phreaks” emerged, earning notoriety by creating high-tech ways to beat the costs of long distance calls. “Cap’n Crunch” was the most notorious of them all. Posted by: Elliot Feldman blue box John Draper is one of Silicon…
Captain Midnight
Type: Hacker. Summary: In 1986 a tech-savvy hacker interrupted a cable channel broadcast with his own transmission. Posted by: Elliot Feldman On April 27, 1986, late night HBO subscribers watching the movie “The Falcon and the Snowman” were surprised by a sudden interruption of service. A color bar test pattern…
Church of the SubGenius
Type: Genuine religion, or a joke? Summary: The Church of the SubGenius has been around for 30 years—and some people even take it seriously. Posted by: Elliot Feldman “The Church of the SubGenius” is a religious and political satire movement that has blurred the line between hoax and reality for…
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. … Wait…
Elmer de Hory
Type: Forgery Summary: Elmyr de Hory fooled the art world for thirty years with his expert forgeries of works by Picasso, Renoir, and other masters. To this day, many of his forgeries remain undetected and are in museums and collections throughout the world. Posted by: Elliot Feldman In 1955, Harvard…
Fake News Comedy Shows
Type: Satire. Summary: A brief history of “fake news” comedy shows. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Before Jon Stewart While “The Daily Show” hits its targets more often than not, the line between “fake news” and real news seems to be blurring a bit in recent months. Show host Jon Stewart’s…
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.…
Great American Golf Hustlers
Type: Sports. Summary: Some of golf’s greatest players never went pro because they could make more money hustling millionaire country club suckers. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Some of golf’s greatest players have never become professionals for the simple reason that they could make much more money hustling country club multi-millionaires.…
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…
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…
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…
Kingdom of Redonda
Type: Fictitious Country. Summary: Science fiction author M.P. Shiel was also known as Felipe I, the second King of Redonda, an island nation that may or may not exist. Posted by: Elliot Feldman M.P. Shiel M.P. Shiel was a notable early 20th century British science fiction and fantasy author. Originally…
Marcel Duchamp
Type: Art Prankster. Summary: Throughout his career, French artist Marcel Duchamp was known for playing outrageous pranks on the art world. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) always held the snobbishness of art collectors and gallery owners in disdain. While he was a revolutionary artist with at least one…
New York Evening Graphic and Composographs
Type: Inventing the News. Summary: The story of publisher Bernarr MacFadden and The New York Evening Graphic, America’s first tabloid. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Although publisher Bernarr MacFadden’s newspaper, The New York Evening Graphic, only lasted a few years, its impact on mass media is still felt today, for better…
Paul Krassner and The Realist
Type: Hoaxer. Summary: In the sixties, Paul Krassner was one of the original Yippies. His magazine “The Realist” was known for perpetuating political hoaxes. Posted by: Elliot Feldman In 1958, at the height of the Cold War, Paul Krassner began publishing his magazine “The Realist.” It was deep leftist political…
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, won…
Principality of New Utopia
Type: Fictitious country. Summary: Howard Turney (AKA Lazarus Long) founded a “country” called New Utopia, supposedly based on the libertarian philosophy of novelist Ayn Rand. Unfortunately it became a center for offshore banking scams. Posted by: Elliot Feldman The Principality of New Utopia was an island country in the Caribbean…
Principality of Outer Baldonia
Type: Fictitious Country. Summary: The Principality of Outer Baldonia started as a practical joke among friends on a fishing trip and it became a country. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Russell Arundel was an executive with the Pepsi-Cola Company. He was also a well-known eccentric. In 1948, he purchased the four-acre…
Principality of Sealand
Type: Country of an ambiguous legal status. Summary: Sealand, the world’s smallest country, started as a WWII British naval installation, turned into a pirate radio station, and finally its own “country.” Posted by: Elliot Feldman Sealand. Sealand is the world’s smallest country, a fortified pontoon barge standing on two cylindrical…
Space Cadets
Type: Reality TV hoax. Summary: In 2005, the British television show “Space Cadets” pulled off the most expensive and elaborate hoax in English television history. Posted by: Elliot Feldman In 2005, all of Britain was talking about a new Channel 4 reality series, “Space Cadets.” The show’s alleged concept: twelve…
Walt Disney Frozen
Type: Urban Legend. Summary: According to rumor, Walt Disney’s cryogenically preserved body is kept in a tank under Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Walt Disney Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, but a rumor has long persisted that his body was cryogenically frozen and…
Weekly World News
Type: Parody. Summary: The life and death of satirical tabloid “The Weekly World News.” Posted by: Elliot Feldman The Death of the Weekly World News “The Weekly World News” was launched almost as an afterthought. It was a news-of-the-weird offshoot of “The National Enquirer.” In 1979, when The Enquirer and…