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Arm the Homeless
Type: College Prank. Summary: A phony organization urged people to help provide the homeless with guns and ammunition. HOAX HAIKUThe charity says, “Homeless are Americans, too, so give them guns!” (by Krista)Submit a haiku In the first week of December, 1993, a press release was distributed to the Columbus, Ohio…
Case of the Miraculous Bullet
Type: Scientific Hoax. Summary: A journal article published in 1874 described the case of a woman impregnated by a bullet that had first passed through the testicles of a soldier. In November 1874 an unusual article appeared in the introductory volume of The American Medical Weekly, a Louisville medical journal.…
Death in the Air
Type: Photo Hoax. Summary: Photographs of World War One aerial dogfights were, decades later, discovered to have been faked. A book called Death in the Air: The War Diary and Photographs of a Flying Corps Pilot was published in 1933. It contained numerous pages of spectacular aerial photographs of World…
Dreadnought Hoax
Type: Prank. Summary: A group of upper-class youths fooled the British navy into believing they were a visiting group of Abyssinian dignitaries. “The Emperor of Abyssinia” and his suiteFrom left to right: Virginia Stephen (Virginia Woolf), Duncan Grant, Horace Cole, Anthony Buxton (seated), Adrian Stephen, Guy Ridley. On February 7,…
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…
Nazi Air Marker Hoax
Type: Overzealous press-agentry. Summary: Random patterns in fields were mistaken for Nazi “air markers.” On August 10, 1942, the U.S. Army’s public-relations office released a statement informing the press that fliers for the First Ground Air Support Command had discovered “secret markers” in rural areas of the east coast. These…
Report From Iron Mountain
Type: Conspiracy hoax. Summary: A book alleged to provide evidence of the American government’s plan to maintain a perpetual state of war. Front cover of Report From Iron Mountain. In 1967 the war in Vietnam was escalating and race riots were breaking out in many major U.S. cities. Popular distrust…
Supplement to the Boston Independent Chronicle
Type: Media Hoax. Summary: A false tale of brutal British military tactics circulated during the American Revolution. In 1782 a shocking letter was printed in the Supplement to the Boston Independent Chronicle. It alleged that Indian warriors were sending hundreds of American scalps as war trophies to British royalty and…
Veterans of Future Wars
Type: College Prank/Satirical Campaign. Summary: Young men satirically demanded to be paid their war bonuses before they went off to fight. Future veterans march to demand their bonuses. 1936. In 1935 veterans of World War One lobbied Congress to pay them their war bonuses ten years early in order to…
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Arm the Homeless
Type: College Prank. Summary: A phony organization urged people to help provide the homeless with guns and ammunition. HOAX HAIKUThe charity says, “Homeless are Americans, too, so give them guns!” (by Krista)Submit a haiku In the first week of December, 1993, a press release was distributed to the Columbus, Ohio…
Case of the Miraculous Bullet
Type: Scientific Hoax. Summary: A journal article published in 1874 described the case of a woman impregnated by a bullet that had first passed through the testicles of a soldier. In November 1874 an unusual article appeared in the introductory volume of The American Medical Weekly, a Louisville medical journal.…
Death in the Air
Type: Photo Hoax. Summary: Photographs of World War One aerial dogfights were, decades later, discovered to have been faked. A book called Death in the Air: The War Diary and Photographs of a Flying Corps Pilot was published in 1933. It contained numerous pages of spectacular aerial photographs of World…
Dreadnought Hoax
Type: Prank. Summary: A group of upper-class youths fooled the British navy into believing they were a visiting group of Abyssinian dignitaries. “The Emperor of Abyssinia” and his suiteFrom left to right: Virginia Stephen (Virginia Woolf), Duncan Grant, Horace Cole, Anthony Buxton (seated), Adrian Stephen, Guy Ridley. On February 7,…
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…
Nazi Air Marker Hoax
Type: Overzealous press-agentry. Summary: Random patterns in fields were mistaken for Nazi “air markers.” On August 10, 1942, the U.S. Army’s public-relations office released a statement informing the press that fliers for the First Ground Air Support Command had discovered “secret markers” in rural areas of the east coast. These…
Report From Iron Mountain
Type: Conspiracy hoax. Summary: A book alleged to provide evidence of the American government’s plan to maintain a perpetual state of war. Front cover of Report From Iron Mountain. In 1967 the war in Vietnam was escalating and race riots were breaking out in many major U.S. cities. Popular distrust…
Supplement to the Boston Independent Chronicle
Type: Media Hoax. Summary: A false tale of brutal British military tactics circulated during the American Revolution. In 1782 a shocking letter was printed in the Supplement to the Boston Independent Chronicle. It alleged that Indian warriors were sending hundreds of American scalps as war trophies to British royalty and…
Veterans of Future Wars
Type: College Prank/Satirical Campaign. Summary: Young men satirically demanded to be paid their war bonuses before they went off to fight. Future veterans march to demand their bonuses. 1936. In 1935 veterans of World War One lobbied Congress to pay them their war bonuses ten years early in order to…