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2012

January

• From the Hoax Archive: The Sandpaper Test (1960)

• Beyonce had her baby. Satan is on Earth.

• The Case of the Spray-Painted Bird

• Sounds of the Apocalypse, aka Strange Sounds Heard Around the World

• Clay iPads

• Carlingford University

• Texas Roof Tiger

• Car lands on roof of house—real or fake?

• A real-life Museum of Hoaxes

• Mitt Romney gets a shoeshine

• Turning Yankee dirt into gold

• The Navalny Affair

• Fake Modigliani For Sale

• Virgin Mary seen in condom

• Fotoshop by Adobé

• Are there more doctors from Malawi in Manchester than in Malawi?

• Manhattan School Employees Behaving Badly

• Good reason why the world won’t end this year

• Swearing Allegiance to the Southern Cross - A Possible Fake?

• The Continuing Troubles of Stephen Glass

• Quantum Levitation Car Racing

• Evidence of Extraterrestrials in North Korea?

• Two new hoax-themed novels

• The Ingushetia Yeti

• The Chinese Octomom

• The Fake Death of Cheetah the Chimp

2011

December

• From the Hoax Archive: The Unraveled Weaving Hoax (1974)

• Old Fulton NY Post Cards

• Cardiff Giant in Perth

• My Great Moon Hoax Data Dump

November

• From the Archive: The Man-Eating Tree of Madagascar

• From the Archive: Wingard’s Nameless Force - a 19th Century Death Ray

• Project Black Mirror

• From the Archive: The Electric Sugar Fraud (1889)

• The Markham Plagiarism Case

• Social Psychologist Fabricates Data

October

• Smith College Goes Vegetarian

• The Fraser Island Crocodile

• Cows In The Library

• Cyclops Shark

• Sons of Clovis

• The Case of the Monster Slipper

• Beyonce Baby Bump Controversy

• From the Archives: The damp spot that hoaxed DC (1912)

• Cardiff Giants Invade Pasadena

• Dobrica Cosic Doesn’t Win the Nobel Prize

• Imaginary Girlfriends

• $16 Muffins

• Disney World Urban Legends

• Live Forever Juice

September

• Recreating the Cardiff Giant

• Disappearing Political Cleavage

• The Case of the Honest Trader

• The Egg-Laying Dog of Vienna

• Coning: A Strange New Prank

• Sussex Zebras

• The Script Kiddies Strike Again

• A Fake Pregnancy Experiment

• The Secret Meaning of Hanging Shoes and Hats

• CLOO: The Socially Networked Toilet

• UST Development Phony Invoice Scam

• Plastic Caps for Cancer

• Pareidolia Round: September 2011

• Krispy Kreme sponsors creation science?

• MOH chosen as one of America’s Kitschiest Roadside Attractions

• Did Dempsey load his gloves?

August

• Gravity-Defying Message in a Bottle

• Is Nessie a Phantimal?

• MOH as one of America’s Great Roadside Attractions

• Obama vs. Perry: “Boys Will Be Boys”

• The Fake Photos of Hurricane Irene

• New Site Design

• Updates to the Site

• Checking In (again)

2010

November

• Birth or Not

• Bunga Bunga

• RIP Geoffrey Crawley

• The Return of the Curator

April

• Help me add to the April Fool’s Day Archive!

• Happy April Fool’s Day, 2010!

January

• Checking In…

2009

December

• Crop Circles and Ostension

• Parents of Balloon Boy receive their sentence

• Ancient shroud casts doubt on Shroud of Turin

• Margaret Mead Redeemed?

• Fake Salvation Army Bell Ringers

• The Christian Side Hug: Real or Hoax?

• Jacob Hadcock: the new Craig Shergold

• Boy suspended from school for drawing Jesus

• Fake Gospel of St. Mark

• Twiggy ad ruled misleading

• Steorn: perpetually in the news

• The Yes Men Strike Again

• GOP URL Shortener put to unintended use

• Wanted: Lap Dance Researcher

November

• Misdiagnosed coma patient—is he really that coherent?

• Beware Fake Eggs From China!

• The Snail in the Ginger Beer

• Shroud of Turin back in the news

• Mass: We Pray

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