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The Museum of Hoaxes is dedicated to promoting knowledge about hoaxes. (Click here for opening hours, etc.) On our blog we post about dubious- sounding claims, and whatever else strikes our fancy. The site is also home to the Hoaxipedia (the museum's online encyclopedia of hoaxes), and the Hoax Forum.

The museum was created in 1997 by Alex Boese. He's assisted by a staff of deputy curators and docents. Alex is the author of three books, most recently Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments (which has nothing to do with hoaxes). Check out the list of the Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time for a preview.



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#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
spaghetti harvest In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in. Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."
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Comments
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 My brother and I saw this on Jack Paar, I was 13 and he was 10. Our family was in bed so we went into the kitchen and boiled up some spaghetti and drapped it all over my Grandmother's house plants (and she had a lot of plants). The next morning with just sat at the breakfast table giggling and telling her that her plants grew spaghette. We all had a very good laugh. My Grandmother loved practical jokes and pulled many of them on us.
Posted by C Kessel  on  Tue Apr 01, 2008  at  08:30 AM
I dont think that the spaghetti grows from a tree. THE people were dumb if you believe them.
Posted by alejandro  in  spain  on  Tue Apr 01, 2008  at  08:45 AM
I remember seeing this on TV. I knew it was hoax, but was greatly amused by it. I think, in addition to the spaghetti farmers harvesting it from the trees, it also showed them gathering it from short bushes on the ground. David Moore
Posted by David Moore  in  Oklahoma City, OK 73118  on  Tue Apr 01, 2008  at  12:48 PM
I am not too surprised some people believed this story. I was in the fourth grade in Fort Smith, Ar in 1959 and saw this picture with the simple description "Harvesting spaghetti" in my world geography book. I was only eight and I believed that picture was for real for years till someone set me right. There was no further explaination in the text. John Whitehead
Posted by John Whitehead  in  Oklahoma City, Ok 73107  on  Thu Apr 03, 2008  at  05:05 PM
I remember seeing this or a similar picture in my world geography book when I was in the fourth grade in 1959, in Fort Smith,Ar,. I was only eight years old and the picture had the sub title, "Harvesting spaghetti". The picture was not referenced in the text, and the reason for the picture escapes me. however I believed spaghetti grew on trees for years until someone set me right. John Whitehead
Posted by John Whitehead  in  Oklahoma City, Ok 73107  on  Fri Apr 04, 2008  at  02:47 PM
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