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About the Museum
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.
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.Prankplace.com
THE TOILET MONSTERYour wife will never yell at you about leaving the seat up again! The Toilet Monster attaches to the inside of the toilet bowl by suction cups. As the unsuspecting person goes to use the bathroom, they'll scream as they lift the lid and are greeted by the Toilet Monster! Not recommended for the elderly or those with a weak heart.
COVERT CLICKERSecretly control the TV, anywhere, any time! This device is so small it is easily concealed in your pocket. It can control volume, change the channel or turn the TV on & off. It works on 90% of all TV's.
#53: Thomas Edison Invents Food Machine
After Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, Americans firmly believed that there were no limits to his genius. Therefore, when the New York Graphic announced in 1878 that Edison had invented a machine that could transform soil directly into cereal and water directly into wine, thereby ending the problem of world hunger, it found no shortage of willing believers. Newspapers throughout America copied the article, heaping lavish praise on Edison. The conservative Buffalo Commercial Advertiser was particularly effusive in its praise, waxing eloquent about Edison's brilliance in a long editorial. The Graphic took the liberty of reprinting the Advertiser's editorial in full, placing above it a simple, two-word headline: "They Bite!"
Comments
Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
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...and the journalist responsible for the prank was fired?
Posted by paul in prague on Tue Nov 09, 2004 at 06:46 AM
Paul,
I laughed hardest at your response, because I remembered your statement on another hoax talking about the shame of everyone getting fired.
Posted by Bryan in Leavenworth, Kansas on Tue Apr 05, 2005 at 12:44 PM
Why fire someone for public ignorance and gullibility?
...is it because they're encrouching on the realms of politicians?
Posted by J. Lam in Canada on Wed Jun 01, 2005 at 08:24 PM
Reprinting the lavish praise with the title "They Bite!"..man that's just brilliant.
Posted by Ronald Vos on Mon Aug 14, 2006 at 07:30 AM
This must be where Star Trek got the idea.
Posted by Teresa in WA on Sun Apr 01, 2007 at 02:25 PM
Soil into Cereal...Oh my. Full of vitamins I'm sure.. Shouldnt they have been tipped off by the biblical "water into wine"?
Posted by Emelia on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 02:51 AM
emilia, perhaps that's what made it more believable to them...
Posted by me in wa on Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 06:57 PM
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