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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…
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…
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…
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 old…
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…
Lafayette Mulligan
Type: Prank. Summary: A man calling himself Lafayette Mulligan presented the Prince of Wales with the key to the City of Boston. However, the Mayor of Boston had no idea who Lafayette Mulligan was. James Curley, former Mayor of Boston. In the Fall of 1924 the Prince of Wales visited…
Native of Formosa
Type: Impostor. Summary: During the early eighteenth-century a white-skinned, blond-haired man showed up in northern Europe claiming to be from Taiwan. Luckily for him, no one knew what a Taiwanese person should look like. George Psalmanazar, The Native of FormosaThose who travelled on European roads at the start of the…
Paul Is Dead
Type: Part rumor, part hoax. Summary: In 1969 the possibility that Paul McCartney had died years ago in a car crash and been replaced by a double became one of the most hotly debated questions around the world. HOAX HAIKUSo many fake clues The three, the hand, the flowers Paul…
Pope Joan
Type: Legend. (Possible case of gender concealment.) Summary: According to legend, a woman disguised as a man briefly served as Pope sometime in the ninth century. HOAX HAIKUMy girlfriend thinks she’s always right — infallible — just because she’s Pope. (by AB) Oh what a surprise! Pope is different to…
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…
The Third Eye
Type: Phony Tibetan monk. Summary: The son of a British plumber claimed to be a lama from a wealthy Tibetan family. Tuesday Lobsang Rampa The Third Eye, published in 1956 and authored by Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, purported to be Rampa’s autobiographical tale of his study and mastery of Tibetan Buddhism.…
Tichborne Claimant
In 1854 a wealthy young aristocrat named Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne disappeared at sea and was presumed dead. His distraught mother, refusing to believe he was actually dead, placed ads in newspapers around the world, seeking information about his whereabouts. In 1866 she received a response from an Australian man…
Whatever Happened to Buckwheat
Type: Hoax. Summary: Man falsely claims to be the actor who played Buckwheat in the Our Gang film series. Buckwheat, as soon on Our GangMany child stars achieve success and stability as adults, but occasionally they go from stardom to the opposite extreme of anonymity and failure, as if dragged…
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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…
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…
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…
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 old…
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…
Lafayette Mulligan
Type: Prank. Summary: A man calling himself Lafayette Mulligan presented the Prince of Wales with the key to the City of Boston. However, the Mayor of Boston had no idea who Lafayette Mulligan was. James Curley, former Mayor of Boston. In the Fall of 1924 the Prince of Wales visited…
Native of Formosa
Type: Impostor. Summary: During the early eighteenth-century a white-skinned, blond-haired man showed up in northern Europe claiming to be from Taiwan. Luckily for him, no one knew what a Taiwanese person should look like. George Psalmanazar, The Native of FormosaThose who travelled on European roads at the start of the…
Paul Is Dead
Type: Part rumor, part hoax. Summary: In 1969 the possibility that Paul McCartney had died years ago in a car crash and been replaced by a double became one of the most hotly debated questions around the world. HOAX HAIKUSo many fake clues The three, the hand, the flowers Paul…
Pope Joan
Type: Legend. (Possible case of gender concealment.) Summary: According to legend, a woman disguised as a man briefly served as Pope sometime in the ninth century. HOAX HAIKUMy girlfriend thinks she’s always right — infallible — just because she’s Pope. (by AB) Oh what a surprise! Pope is different to…
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…
The Third Eye
Type: Phony Tibetan monk. Summary: The son of a British plumber claimed to be a lama from a wealthy Tibetan family. Tuesday Lobsang Rampa The Third Eye, published in 1956 and authored by Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, purported to be Rampa’s autobiographical tale of his study and mastery of Tibetan Buddhism.…
Tichborne Claimant
In 1854 a wealthy young aristocrat named Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne disappeared at sea and was presumed dead. His distraught mother, refusing to believe he was actually dead, placed ads in newspapers around the world, seeking information about his whereabouts. In 1866 she received a response from an Australian man…
Whatever Happened to Buckwheat
Type: Hoax. Summary: Man falsely claims to be the actor who played Buckwheat in the Our Gang film series. Buckwheat, as soon on Our GangMany child stars achieve success and stability as adults, but occasionally they go from stardom to the opposite extreme of anonymity and failure, as if dragged…