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The Hoax Archive
A collection of the most notorious deceptions throughout history
1869-1913: List of Titles
“The Locals”—Humorous Media Hoaxes of the Late 19th Century
Dan De Quille (1829-1898)
The Cardiff Giant (1869)
Vrain Lucas (1851-1870)
Petrification Hoaxes of the Late 19th Century
The Popularization of Fake Photography
Forgery (1869-1913)
Lord Gordon-Gordon (1871-1872)
The Bigamist of San Bernardino (December 1873)
The Man-Eating Tree of Madagascar (April 28, 1874)
The Global Warming Hoax of 1874 (February 1874)
Solar Armor (July 2, 1874)
The Case of the Miraculous Bullet (November 1874)
The Central Park Zoo Escape (November 9, 1874)
The Materialization of John Newbegin (December 19, 1874)
The Chicago Theater Fire (February 13, 1875)
The Keely Motor Company (1875-1898)
The Pine River Petrified Baby (October 1875)
Professor Wingard’s Nameless Force (1876)
George Washington Petrified (January 1877)
Leonainie (August 1877)
Joseph Mulhattan (1853-1914)
The Taughannock Giant (July 1879)
Imposters (1869-1913)
The Diaphote Hoax (February 1880)
Dr. Egerton Yorrick Davis (Active in the late nineteenth century)
Jacko (July 4, 1884)
Media Hoaxes in the Era of Yellow Journalism
Literary Hoaxes (1869-1913)
Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography (1887 (exposed in 1919))
Milton Rejected (1887)
Show Business Hoaxes (1869-1913)
The Holly Oak Pendant (1889)
Freund’s Electric Sugar Fraud (1884-1889)
The Beheading of Baron Rothschild (circa 1890)
Business Scams (1869-1913)
Rogue Archaeology (1866-1913)
Science and Technology Hoaxes (1869-1913)
Forest City Man (circa 1893)
The Great Duck Egg Fake (mid 1890s)
Medical Hoaxes (1869-1913)
Legends & Rumors (1869-1913)
The Winsted Wild Man (August 1895)
The Mammoth Potato Hoax of Loveland, Colorado (1895)
Lou Stone, the Winsted Liar (1875-1933)
Hearst: I’ll Furnish the War (Supposedly said January 1897)
The Gold Accumulator (1898)
The Great Wall of China Hoax (June 25, 1899)
Monkeys Pick Cotton (late nineteenth century)
The Great Mammoth Hoax (October 1899)
Exploration Hoaxes (1869-1913)
The Strange Bequest of Francis Douce (Revealed in January 1900)
Collective Delusions (1869-1913)
The Ghosts of Versailles (1901)
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (First published 1903)
Hate & Libel Hoaxes (1869-1913)
Cassie Chadwick (Exposed in 1904)
Pranks (1869-1913)
The Captain of Köpenick (October 16, 1906)
Sober Sue (Summer of 1907)
The Worcester Aeroplane Hoax (December 1909)
The Dreadnought Hoax (February 7, 1910)
The Piltdown Man (1912)
The Damp Spot That Hoaxed D.C. (May 7, 1912)
The September Morn Hoax (1913)
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