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The Hoax Archive
A collection of the most notorious deceptions throughout history
1800-1868: List of Titles
The Berners Street Hoax (November 26, 1810)
Pranks (1800-1868)
Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1812)
Redheffer’s Perpetual Motion Machine (1812)
The Great Stock Exchange Hoax of 1814 (1814)
Imposters (1800-1868)
Princess Caraboo (1817)
Anthropological Hoaxes, 1800-1868
New York Sawed in Half (Supposedly occurred in 1824)
Charles Waterton’s Nondescript (1824)
John Howe, British Spy (1827)
The Rise of Newspaper Hoaxes
Literary Hoaxes (1800-1868)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall (June 1835)
Joice Heth (1835)
The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 (August 1835)
The Walam Olum of Constantine Rafinesque (1836)
The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk (1836)
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1837)
The Hoaxes of P.T. Barnum
The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840)
The Fortsas Bibliohoax (August 1840)
The Feejee Mermaid (July 1842)
The Kinderhook Plates (April 1843)
The Free Grand Buffalo Hunt (August 31, 1843)
The Great Balloon Hoax (April 13, 1844)
The Roorback Hoax (August 1844)
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845)
Antebellum & Civil War Political Hoaxes
Von Kempelen and His Discovery (1849)
The Southern Conspiracy to Confederate with Mexico (August 1850)
Railways and Revolvers in Georgia (October 1856)
The Paulding County Hyena (February 6, 1858)
The Pictographs of Emmanuel Domenech (1860)
William Mumler’s Spirit Photography (1861-1879)
The Petrified Man (October 1862)
The Hopkins Hoax (March 1862)
The Empire City Massacre (October 1863)
The Miscegenation Hoax (December 1863)
The Civil War Gold Hoax (May 18, 1864)
The Orgueil Meteorite (May 1864)
Tom Thumb’s Baby (circa 1865)
The Tichborne Claimant (1866)
The Calaveras Skull (February 1866)
The Traveling Stones of Pahranagat Valley (October 26, 1867)
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