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The Hoax Archive
A collection of the most notorious deceptions throughout history
A collection of the most notorious deceptions throughout history
1914-1949: List of Titles
The Angel of Mons (August 23, 1914)
Spectric Poetry (1916)
The History of the Bathtub (December 28, 1917)
WWI Armistice Announced Early (November 1918)
Stotham: The Town That Didn’t Exist (April 1920)
Charles Ponzi and the Ponzi Scheme (Exposed in Summer 1920)
The Cottingley Fairies (1917-1920)
King Tut’s Curse (Began in April 1923)
The Mysterious Glozel Finds (1924)
Lafayette Mulligan (1924)
The Cornell Rhinoceros (circa 1925)
The Case of the Midwife Toad (1926)
The BBC Radio Panic (January 16, 1926)
Hugh Troy (1906-1964)
The Killer Hawk of Chicago (January 1927)
The Channel Swim Hoax (October 10, 1927)
The Brazilian Invisible Fish (circa 1928)
The Cradle of the Deep (1929)
Hugo N. Frye (May 1930)
The Loch Ness Monster (1933-Present)
Death in the Air (1933)
Baby Adolf (1933)
The Surgeon’s Photo (April 1934)
The Chesterfield Leper (1934)
Fritz Kreisler’s Lost Classics (Exposed in 1935)
The Veterans of Future Wars (1935-1937)
Van Gogh’s Ear Exhibited (November 1935)
Jim Moran (1907-1999)
The Milton Mule (September 13, 1938)
The War of the Worlds (October 30, 1938)
Hitler’s Silly Dance (1940)
The Nazi Air Marker Hoax (August 1942)
Operation Mincemeat (1943)
The Flypaper Report (circa 1943)
Ern Malley (1944)
Robert Archer, aka Tanis Chandler (Exposed in January 1944)
The Rip-Off Recipe Legend (First appeared circa 1945)
Naromji (November 1946)
Han van Meegeren (Exposed in 1947)
A Homemade UFO (July 11, 1947)
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