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Death of Titan Leeds
Type: Hoax. Summary: A (fake) astrologer predicted the death of his rival. Poor Richard’s Almanac. Poor Richard’s Almanac was a yearly almanac written by a hen-pecked, poverty-stricken scholar named Richard Saunders. It first appeared in 1733, offering a collection of wit, poetry, as well as some prophecies. In its first…
Enigmatical Prophecies
Type: Hoax. Summary: A (fake) astrologer made ambiguous prophecies that inevitably came true. Poor, henpecked Richard Saunders was the apparent author of an annual American almanac, Poor Richard’s Almanac. But the real author was Benjamin Franklin. In 1736 Franklin put the credibility of his pseudonym on the line by making…
Nostradamus Predicted 9-11
Nostradamus may have lived in the sixteenth century, but if you believe what his followers say (and I would encourage you not to), his gaze extended far into the future. He’s been credited with predicting numerous major world events such as the great London fire of 1666, the rise of…
Predictions of Isaac Bickerstaff
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: An astrologer learns that he has died. Insists it isn’t so. April Fool’s Day Content in the Museum of HoaxesTop 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes—The Origin of April Fool’s Day—April Fool’s Hoaxes by Year1698 | 1708 | 1844 | 1860 | 1866 | 1878…
Rudolph Fentz
The widely circulated story of Rudolph Fentz is told as follows: In June 1950 a man suddenly appeared in the center of New York City’s Times Square, as if from out of the blue. He was wearing old-fashioned clothes and sported the kind of mutton-chop sideburns that had gone out…
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Death of Titan Leeds
Type: Hoax. Summary: A (fake) astrologer predicted the death of his rival. Poor Richard’s Almanac. Poor Richard’s Almanac was a yearly almanac written by a hen-pecked, poverty-stricken scholar named Richard Saunders. It first appeared in 1733, offering a collection of wit, poetry, as well as some prophecies. In its first…
Enigmatical Prophecies
Type: Hoax. Summary: A (fake) astrologer made ambiguous prophecies that inevitably came true. Poor, henpecked Richard Saunders was the apparent author of an annual American almanac, Poor Richard’s Almanac. But the real author was Benjamin Franklin. In 1736 Franklin put the credibility of his pseudonym on the line by making…
Nostradamus Predicted 9-11
Nostradamus may have lived in the sixteenth century, but if you believe what his followers say (and I would encourage you not to), his gaze extended far into the future. He’s been credited with predicting numerous major world events such as the great London fire of 1666, the rise of…
Predictions of Isaac Bickerstaff
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: An astrologer learns that he has died. Insists it isn’t so. April Fool’s Day Content in the Museum of HoaxesTop 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes—The Origin of April Fool’s Day—April Fool’s Hoaxes by Year1698 | 1708 | 1844 | 1860 | 1866 | 1878…
Rudolph Fentz
The widely circulated story of Rudolph Fentz is told as follows: In June 1950 a man suddenly appeared in the center of New York City’s Times Square, as if from out of the blue. He was wearing old-fashioned clothes and sported the kind of mutton-chop sideburns that had gone out…