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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…