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Bigfoot Hoaxes
Type: Legend. Summary: The legend of the existence of a giant ape native to North America has inspired numerous hoaxes. BIGFOOT HAIKUIf a tree branch falls in the woods and hits Bigfoot, does he make a sound? (by AB) Bigfoot, he saw me. Grabbed me and ran far away. I’ll…
Calaveras Skull
Type: Hoax. Summary: A practical joke by miners confused scientists for decades. Front view of the Calaveras SkullOn February 25, 1866 workers found a human skull buried deep inside a mine on Bald Mountain in Calaveras County, California. The skull was located 130 feet below the surface, beneath a layer…
Case of the Midwife Toad
Type: Scientific Fraud. Summary: Scaly bumps that suddenly appeared on a species of toad were offered as proof of Lamarckian inheritance. But the bumps turned out to be injected inkspots. Paul KammererCan acquired characteristics be passed on to one’s offspring? For instance, if a person acquires a limp during their…
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.…
Duckbilled Platypus
Type: Real creature suspected of being fake. Summary: When western naturalists first discovered the duckbilled platypus, they suspected it was a hoax. HOAX HAIKUThe bizarre creaureIn the river must be miffed,‘Cause he isn’t real(by J) Egg-laying mammal With duck-bill that doesn’t quack (Man that is so wack!) (by SP)Submit a…
Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer
Type: April Fool’s Day hoax. Summary: An article in Discover described the discovery of a bizarre new Antarctic species. Image that accompanied the article in Discover. The caption read: “Proud and Free, a fierce ice borer bellows a challenge.” The April 1995 issue of Discover Magazine contained a brief article…
Patagonian Giants
Type: Rumor. Summary: A rumor that circulated in England in the eighteenth century suggested that Commodore Byron had discovered a race of giants in South America. “A sailor giving a Patagonian woman a piece of bread for her baby.”—Detail from the frontispiece to A Voyage round the World, in his…
Piltdown Chicken
The Piltdown Chicken (artist’s reconstruction) On October 15, 1999 the National Geographic Society cranked its publicity machine into high gear to announce the amazing discovery in northeastern China of a 125-million-year-old fossil that appeared to be the long-sought missing link between dinosaurs and birds. For over twenty years paleontologists had…
Stone Age Tasaday
Type: Anthropological Hoax. Summary: A primitive, stone-age tribe found living in a rain forest in the Philippines was later alleged to be an elaborate fake. Table of Contents The Tasaday As A Real Tribe The Tasaday As A Fake Tribe The Revenge of the Tasaday Making Sense of the Tasaday…
Sympsychography
Type: Hoax. Summary: A scientific article describes a new photographic process that is able to capture thoughts on film. A sympsychographic image of a cat. From Popular Science Monthly (Sep., 1896): 601.An article by the famous scientist David Starr Jordan (president of Indiana University and Stanford University) appeared in the…
Traveling Stones of Pahranagat Valley
Type: Media Hoax. Summary: In 1867 Nevada journalist Dan De Quille described some stones with a curious property—whenever separated from each other they spontaneously moved back together. On October 26, 1867 a story appeared in Nevada’s Territorial Enterprise newspaper describing some unusual stones recently found in the Pahranagat Valley of…
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Bigfoot Hoaxes
Type: Legend. Summary: The legend of the existence of a giant ape native to North America has inspired numerous hoaxes. BIGFOOT HAIKUIf a tree branch falls in the woods and hits Bigfoot, does he make a sound? (by AB) Bigfoot, he saw me. Grabbed me and ran far away. I’ll…
Calaveras Skull
Type: Hoax. Summary: A practical joke by miners confused scientists for decades. Front view of the Calaveras SkullOn February 25, 1866 workers found a human skull buried deep inside a mine on Bald Mountain in Calaveras County, California. The skull was located 130 feet below the surface, beneath a layer…
Case of the Midwife Toad
Type: Scientific Fraud. Summary: Scaly bumps that suddenly appeared on a species of toad were offered as proof of Lamarckian inheritance. But the bumps turned out to be injected inkspots. Paul KammererCan acquired characteristics be passed on to one’s offspring? For instance, if a person acquires a limp during their…
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.…
Duckbilled Platypus
Type: Real creature suspected of being fake. Summary: When western naturalists first discovered the duckbilled platypus, they suspected it was a hoax. HOAX HAIKUThe bizarre creaureIn the river must be miffed,‘Cause he isn’t real(by J) Egg-laying mammal With duck-bill that doesn’t quack (Man that is so wack!) (by SP)Submit a…
Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer
Type: April Fool’s Day hoax. Summary: An article in Discover described the discovery of a bizarre new Antarctic species. Image that accompanied the article in Discover. The caption read: “Proud and Free, a fierce ice borer bellows a challenge.” The April 1995 issue of Discover Magazine contained a brief article…
Patagonian Giants
Type: Rumor. Summary: A rumor that circulated in England in the eighteenth century suggested that Commodore Byron had discovered a race of giants in South America. “A sailor giving a Patagonian woman a piece of bread for her baby.”—Detail from the frontispiece to A Voyage round the World, in his…
Piltdown Chicken
The Piltdown Chicken (artist’s reconstruction) On October 15, 1999 the National Geographic Society cranked its publicity machine into high gear to announce the amazing discovery in northeastern China of a 125-million-year-old fossil that appeared to be the long-sought missing link between dinosaurs and birds. For over twenty years paleontologists had…
Stone Age Tasaday
Type: Anthropological Hoax. Summary: A primitive, stone-age tribe found living in a rain forest in the Philippines was later alleged to be an elaborate fake. Table of Contents The Tasaday As A Real Tribe The Tasaday As A Fake Tribe The Revenge of the Tasaday Making Sense of the Tasaday…
Sympsychography
Type: Hoax. Summary: A scientific article describes a new photographic process that is able to capture thoughts on film. A sympsychographic image of a cat. From Popular Science Monthly (Sep., 1896): 601.An article by the famous scientist David Starr Jordan (president of Indiana University and Stanford University) appeared in the…
Traveling Stones of Pahranagat Valley
Type: Media Hoax. Summary: In 1867 Nevada journalist Dan De Quille described some stones with a curious property—whenever separated from each other they spontaneously moved back together. On October 26, 1867 a story appeared in Nevada’s Territorial Enterprise newspaper describing some unusual stones recently found in the Pahranagat Valley of…
