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Cassie Chadwick
Type: Con Artist. Summary: A woman financed a lavish lifestyle by claiming to be the daughter of Andrew Carnegie. Cassie Chadwick claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie. She said that Carnegie was paying her huge sums of money in order to keep their relationship a secret. Based…
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…
J.S.G. Boggs
Type: Art. Summary: Boggs draws money that’s almost convincing enough to pass for the real thing. J.S.G. Boggs is a contemporary artist whose work deals with the tension between money’s aesthetic value and its economic function. He draws currency: Dollars, euros, or whatever the currency is where he happens to…
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…
Joice Heth
Type: Show-business hoax. Summary: An elderly black woman claimed to be the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington. A pamphlet advertising the exhibition of Joice HethJoice Heth was an elderly black woman whom a young P.T. Barnum put on display in 1835, advertising that she was the 161 year…
Joseph Mulhattan
Type: Media Hoaxer. Summary: During the late nineteenth century, Mulhattan was widely known for his love of hoaxing newspapers. Joseph MulhattanDuring the 1870s and 1880s Joseph Mulhattan was perhaps the most famous hoaxer in America. He was a traveling salesman, not a reporter, but he was notorious for repeatedly succeeding…
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…
Paris Hilton Hoaxes
Type: Heiress-themed Hoaxes. Summary: Paris Hilton has played a starring role in numerous hoaxes. Paris Hilton. Mugshot taken June, 2007 when she was booked into a Los Angeles jail. Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton is not known for perpetrating hoaxes. However, much like the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and Adolf Hitler,…
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…
Princess Caraboo
Type: Impostor Summary: A nineteenth-century British maid pretended to be a princess from the exotic land of Javasu. Princess Caraboo, by Edward BirdOn Thursday April 3, 1817, a strange woman appeared in Almondsbury, a small town near Bristol in Gloucestershire, England. She was five foot two, extremely attractive, and wore…
Silence Dogood
Type: False Identity. Summary: Sixteen-year-old Benjamin Franklin pretended to be a middle-aged widow named Silence Dogood. View the Discussion Page for this topic. In 1722 a series of letters appeared in the New-England Courant written by a middle-aged widow named Silence Dogood. The letters poked fun at various aspects of…
Thomas Chatterton
Type: Literary forgery. Summary: A young man in eighteenth-century England claimed to have found poetry by a fifteenth-century priest. The Death of Chatterton, Oil Painting by Henry Wallis, 1856As a young boy growing up in Bristol, Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) spent a great deal of time with his uncle, the sexton…
Vrain Lucas
Type: Forgery. Summary: The counterfeits of a successful forger strained credulity. Few accounts of forgery are as strange as the case of Vrain Lucas. Lucas’s career as a forger began in 1851 when he met the esteemed French mathematician Michel Chasles. Lucas showed the mathematician a few letters he claimed…
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Cassie Chadwick
Type: Con Artist. Summary: A woman financed a lavish lifestyle by claiming to be the daughter of Andrew Carnegie. Cassie Chadwick claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie. She said that Carnegie was paying her huge sums of money in order to keep their relationship a secret. Based…
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…
J.S.G. Boggs
Type: Art. Summary: Boggs draws money that’s almost convincing enough to pass for the real thing. J.S.G. Boggs is a contemporary artist whose work deals with the tension between money’s aesthetic value and its economic function. He draws currency: Dollars, euros, or whatever the currency is where he happens to…
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…
Joice Heth
Type: Show-business hoax. Summary: An elderly black woman claimed to be the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington. A pamphlet advertising the exhibition of Joice HethJoice Heth was an elderly black woman whom a young P.T. Barnum put on display in 1835, advertising that she was the 161 year…
Joseph Mulhattan
Type: Media Hoaxer. Summary: During the late nineteenth century, Mulhattan was widely known for his love of hoaxing newspapers. Joseph MulhattanDuring the 1870s and 1880s Joseph Mulhattan was perhaps the most famous hoaxer in America. He was a traveling salesman, not a reporter, but he was notorious for repeatedly succeeding…
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…
Paris Hilton Hoaxes
Type: Heiress-themed Hoaxes. Summary: Paris Hilton has played a starring role in numerous hoaxes. Paris Hilton. Mugshot taken June, 2007 when she was booked into a Los Angeles jail. Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton is not known for perpetrating hoaxes. However, much like the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and Adolf Hitler,…
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…
Princess Caraboo
Type: Impostor Summary: A nineteenth-century British maid pretended to be a princess from the exotic land of Javasu. Princess Caraboo, by Edward BirdOn Thursday April 3, 1817, a strange woman appeared in Almondsbury, a small town near Bristol in Gloucestershire, England. She was five foot two, extremely attractive, and wore…
Silence Dogood
Type: False Identity. Summary: Sixteen-year-old Benjamin Franklin pretended to be a middle-aged widow named Silence Dogood. View the Discussion Page for this topic. In 1722 a series of letters appeared in the New-England Courant written by a middle-aged widow named Silence Dogood. The letters poked fun at various aspects of…
Thomas Chatterton
Type: Literary forgery. Summary: A young man in eighteenth-century England claimed to have found poetry by a fifteenth-century priest. The Death of Chatterton, Oil Painting by Henry Wallis, 1856As a young boy growing up in Bristol, Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) spent a great deal of time with his uncle, the sexton…
Vrain Lucas
Type: Forgery. Summary: The counterfeits of a successful forger strained credulity. Few accounts of forgery are as strange as the case of Vrain Lucas. Lucas’s career as a forger began in 1851 when he met the esteemed French mathematician Michel Chasles. Lucas showed the mathematician a few letters he claimed…
