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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
1950-1976: List of Titles
The Brassiere Brigade (1950)
The Kidnapping of Nicole Riche (March 29, 1950)
Hugh Stewart’s Sextuplet Hoax (August 1951)
Ghost Artists (February 1952)
Rudolph Fentz, the Accidental Time Traveler (circa 1953)
The Great Monkey Hoax (July 1953)
The Disappearance of David Lang (Circulated since the 1950s)
Douglas R. Stringfellow (Exposed in October 1954)
Elmyr de Hory (1950s & 60s)
I, Libertine (Conceived of in April 1955)
The Olympic Underwear Relay (November 1956)
The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest (April 1, 1957)
Emile Coudé (1957)
The Little Blue Man Hoax (April 1958)
How Bigfoot Got His Name (August 27, 1958)
The Virginia City Camel Race (1959)
Black Like Me (1959)
The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (1959-1962)
Cacareco the Rhinoceros (October 1959)
The Sandpaper Test (1960)
Subways Are For Sleeping (January 4, 1962)
Instant Color TV (April 1, 1962)
Kick A Puppy Today (1963)
Yetta Bronstein for President (1964-1968)
Pierre Brassau, Monkey Artist (February 1964)
Report From Iron Mountain (October 1967)
Chariots of the Gods? (1968)
Naked Came the Stranger (Revealed in August 1969)
Paul is Dead (Fall, 1969)
The Stone-Age Tasaday (First made headlines in 1971)
Robert Patterson’s Tour of China (June 1971)
Dan Rattiner, the Hoaxer of the Hamptons (Born 1940)
Body of Nessie Found (March 31, 1972)
Cap’n Crunch and the Phone Phreaks (early 1970s)
The Unraveled Weaving Hoax (October 1974)
The Steps Experiment (1975 & 1979)
The Caltech Sweepstakes Caper (March 1975)
Bride of Bigfoot (May 1976)
Nobody For President (1976)
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