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Bonsai Kitten
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website that came online in late 2000 purported to offer instructions on how to raise kittens inside of glass jars. The Bonsai Kitten website. Bonsai describes the ancient Japanese art of growing miniature trees by rigorous pruning of their roots and branches. Because of their…
Final Curtain
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: The Final Curtain claimed to be a theme-park style cemetery, which allowed people to design their own graves. The Final Curtain Website. In March, 1999 an ad appeared in a variety of weekly magazines, such as the L.A. Weekly and the Village Voice. It read, “Death…
Freewheelz
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: An article described a company that gave away free cars. April Fool’s Day Content in the Museum of HoaxesTop 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes—The Origin of April Fool’s Day—April Fool’s Hoaxes by Year1698 | 1708 | 1844 | 1860 | 1866 | 1878 |…
Gorgeous Guy
Type: Online Hoax. Summary: A man was accused of using numerous fake aliases in order to create a buzz about himself online. Dan Baca, aka ‘Gorgeous Guy’ Dan Baca, a 29-year-old network engineer, was going about his life, minding his own business, when suddenly people began staring at him. He…
I Buy Strays
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website pretends to represent a business that buys pets and resells them to research labs. IBuyStrays.com appeared on the internet in late December, 2007 and has quickly achieved notoriety. The site purports to represent a business that buys unwanted pets and stray animals and resells…
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…
Lovenstein Institute IQ Report
In July 2001 an e-mail began to circulate claiming that the Lovenstein Institute, a think-tank based in Scranton, Pennsylvania, had conducted research into the IQ of all the Presidents of the past 50 years and concluded that George W. Bush ranked at the bottom, with an IQ of only 91.…
MalePregnancy.com
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website that claims to document the first human male pregnancy. Mr. Lee Mingwei, supposedly the first pregnant man. MalePregnancy.com is a website that alleges to document the case of Mr. Lee Mingwei, supposedly the first human male to become pregnant. Visitors to the site can…
Manbeef.com
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website offered to sell human flesh. Manbeef.com appeared online in early 2001 and immediately caused a sensation. The site claimed to sell human flesh for the “sophisticated human meat consumer.” Visitors to the site could read the ‘recipe of the day’ as they viewed pictures…
Microsoft Buys the Catholic Church
Type: Internet hoax. Summary: Fake press release claimed that Microsoft was purchasing the Roman Catholic Church. In 1994 a press release (see below) began circulating around the internet, primarily via email. It claimed that Microsoft had bought the Catholic church. The press release, which bore a Vatican City dateline, noted…
Microsoft iLoo
Type: Hoax that was not a hoax. Summary: Microsoft announced that it intended to create the world’s first internet-enabled toilet. On April 30, 2003, MSN UK, a division of Microsoft, issued a press release announcing the imminent introduction of the iLoo, the world’s first internet-enabled port-a-potty. The introduction of this…
Modest Proposals
Type: Genre of satirical hoax. Summary: A form of satire that makes its point by shocking people with a socially taboo proposal. In 1729 Jonathan Swift published a short work titled A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to their Parents…
Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe
Type: Anti-corporate rumor. Summary: Despite a persistent rumor to the contrary, Neiman Marcus has never sold a cookie recipe for $250. URBAN LEGEND HAIKU Recipe was good, But it cost me too much dough. And now I am broke. (by AB) That’s a good cookie. I’ll get that Neiman Marcus.…
Paris Hilton Death Hoax
Mike Burke’s fake CNN page alleging the death of Paris HiltonIn June 2007 several websites separately posted stories claiming that celebrity heiress Paris Hilton had died while in jail. These stories soon began to circulate by email as well. It was true that Hilton was in jail. She was doing…
Satellite Medical Exam
Type: Scam. Summary: Victims are convinced to pose outside so that a satellite camera can diagnose their medical condition. During the past three decades the resolution of satellite-based cameras has greatly increased, and satellite imagery has grown in importance for the work of both businesses and governments. Nevertheless, satellites remain…
Spud Server
Potatoes: the secret power source that fuels the internet Getting a potato to power a clock is the stuff of high school chemistry. Spud Server purported to take the concept a step further by using potatoes to power an internet server. Visitors to the site (which loaded agonizingly slowly) could…
Tourist Guy
Type: Hoax Photo. Summary: A photograph purported to show a tourist standing on the observation deck of the World Trade Center, seconds before it was struck by a plane. Soon after September 11, 2001, a sensational photo began circulating via email. It showed a tourist posing for a snapshot on…
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Bonsai Kitten
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website that came online in late 2000 purported to offer instructions on how to raise kittens inside of glass jars. The Bonsai Kitten website. Bonsai describes the ancient Japanese art of growing miniature trees by rigorous pruning of their roots and branches. Because of their…
Final Curtain
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: The Final Curtain claimed to be a theme-park style cemetery, which allowed people to design their own graves. The Final Curtain Website. In March, 1999 an ad appeared in a variety of weekly magazines, such as the L.A. Weekly and the Village Voice. It read, “Death…
Freewheelz
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: An article described a company that gave away free cars. April Fool’s Day Content in the Museum of HoaxesTop 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes—The Origin of April Fool’s Day—April Fool’s Hoaxes by Year1698 | 1708 | 1844 | 1860 | 1866 | 1878 |…
Gorgeous Guy
Type: Online Hoax. Summary: A man was accused of using numerous fake aliases in order to create a buzz about himself online. Dan Baca, aka ‘Gorgeous Guy’ Dan Baca, a 29-year-old network engineer, was going about his life, minding his own business, when suddenly people began staring at him. He…
I Buy Strays
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website pretends to represent a business that buys pets and resells them to research labs. IBuyStrays.com appeared on the internet in late December, 2007 and has quickly achieved notoriety. The site purports to represent a business that buys unwanted pets and stray animals and resells…
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…
Lovenstein Institute IQ Report
In July 2001 an e-mail began to circulate claiming that the Lovenstein Institute, a think-tank based in Scranton, Pennsylvania, had conducted research into the IQ of all the Presidents of the past 50 years and concluded that George W. Bush ranked at the bottom, with an IQ of only 91.…
MalePregnancy.com
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website that claims to document the first human male pregnancy. Mr. Lee Mingwei, supposedly the first pregnant man. MalePregnancy.com is a website that alleges to document the case of Mr. Lee Mingwei, supposedly the first human male to become pregnant. Visitors to the site can…
Manbeef.com
Type: Hoax Website. Summary: A website offered to sell human flesh. Manbeef.com appeared online in early 2001 and immediately caused a sensation. The site claimed to sell human flesh for the “sophisticated human meat consumer.” Visitors to the site could read the ‘recipe of the day’ as they viewed pictures…
Microsoft Buys the Catholic Church
Type: Internet hoax. Summary: Fake press release claimed that Microsoft was purchasing the Roman Catholic Church. In 1994 a press release (see below) began circulating around the internet, primarily via email. It claimed that Microsoft had bought the Catholic church. The press release, which bore a Vatican City dateline, noted…
Microsoft iLoo
Type: Hoax that was not a hoax. Summary: Microsoft announced that it intended to create the world’s first internet-enabled toilet. On April 30, 2003, MSN UK, a division of Microsoft, issued a press release announcing the imminent introduction of the iLoo, the world’s first internet-enabled port-a-potty. The introduction of this…
Modest Proposals
Type: Genre of satirical hoax. Summary: A form of satire that makes its point by shocking people with a socially taboo proposal. In 1729 Jonathan Swift published a short work titled A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to their Parents…
Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe
Type: Anti-corporate rumor. Summary: Despite a persistent rumor to the contrary, Neiman Marcus has never sold a cookie recipe for $250. URBAN LEGEND HAIKU Recipe was good, But it cost me too much dough. And now I am broke. (by AB) That’s a good cookie. I’ll get that Neiman Marcus.…
Paris Hilton Death Hoax
Mike Burke’s fake CNN page alleging the death of Paris HiltonIn June 2007 several websites separately posted stories claiming that celebrity heiress Paris Hilton had died while in jail. These stories soon began to circulate by email as well. It was true that Hilton was in jail. She was doing…
Satellite Medical Exam
Type: Scam. Summary: Victims are convinced to pose outside so that a satellite camera can diagnose their medical condition. During the past three decades the resolution of satellite-based cameras has greatly increased, and satellite imagery has grown in importance for the work of both businesses and governments. Nevertheless, satellites remain…
Spud Server
Potatoes: the secret power source that fuels the internet Getting a potato to power a clock is the stuff of high school chemistry. Spud Server purported to take the concept a step further by using potatoes to power an internet server. Visitors to the site (which loaded agonizingly slowly) could…
Tourist Guy
Type: Hoax Photo. Summary: A photograph purported to show a tourist standing on the observation deck of the World Trade Center, seconds before it was struck by a plane. Soon after September 11, 2001, a sensational photo began circulating via email. It showed a tourist posing for a snapshot on…