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Bibliography of books about hoaxes.
http://www.lhup.edu/dsimanek/hoaxbib.htm
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The Mothman Investigation
Investigation reveals that the mothman was actually a Red-shouldered Hawk.
http://www.webspawner.com/users/mothmaninvestigation/index.html
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Piltdown Man
Piltdown man was one of the most famous hoaxes in science. Covers the history of the hoax, its
reception by the paleontological community, how the hoax was executed, its exposure, myths and
misconceptions, and theories about the perpetrator.
http://home.tiac.net/~cri_a/piltdown/piltdown.html
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Cassiopaea
Bogdanovs affaire: Or, Has Physics been bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? Discussion and
correspondence.
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/bogdanovs.htm
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Art and UFO
A study about the alleged UFOs in renaissance paintings. The "strange flying objects"
someone find in ancient art are only sacred art symbols, not UFOs.
http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Arte_UFO.htm
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History Buff : "Hoaxes in Journalism" Articles
Offers six articles on hoaxes, including petrification hoaxes and the day they sawed off manhattan.
http://www.historybuff.com/library/refhoaxes.html
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Eric's history of Perpetual Motion and Free Energy Machines
In-depth historical timeline of people who have promised free energy or perpetual motion. Includes
links.
http://www.voicenet.com/~eric/dennis4.html
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CSICOP:Strange Hoaxes That Endure
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: article that discusses 10
hoaxes, including the Roswell Incident, Cottingley Fairies, Amityville Horror, and psychic surgery.
http://www.csicop.org/articles/april_fools_1998/
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MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery
The MIT Gallery of Hacks (Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People). Hoaxes and pranks perpetrated at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks
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Skeptic's Dictionary: Frauds and Hoaxes
Discussion of 22 hoaxes, including Cardiff Giant, crop circles, and the Philadelphia Experiment
http://skepdic.com/tifraud.html
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The Hoax Files
Assorted collection of hoaxes, including sports hoaxes and art forgeries
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hoax1.html
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Meet Mark Hoffman
A document forger-turned-assassin, Mark Hoffman's knack for "finding" Mormon historical
documents and then selling them to the church resulted in scandal and murder.
http://www.connect-a.net/users/drshades/hofmann.htm
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Joey Skaggs
Homepage of Joey Skaggs: hoaxer, socio-political satirist, media activist, and culture jammer.
Includes an interesting retrospective of his many hoaxes.
http://www.hoaxes.com
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Tracking the White Salamander
Online Book telling the story of Mark Hoffman who forged Mormon documents and was convicted of
murder
http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/trackingcontents.htm
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James Randi Educational Foundation
Magician and skeptic James Randi debunks psychics, medical frauds, televangelists, and others.
Offers a million dollar reward for proof of occult, psychic or supernatural powers.
http://www.randi.org/
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Museum of Hoaxes
Extensive collection of history's most famous hoaxes and April Fool's pranks. Listed by date and
category. Includes bibliographic references.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com
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Net Hoax Hall of Fame
C|Net lampoons net pranksters and gullible netizens.
http://www.cnet.com/specialreports/0-6014-7-1427917.html
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Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of Hoaxes
Discusses a number of scientific and medical hoaxes, including Mary Toft and the Rabbit Babies
(about which he authored a book). Includes links and images.
http://www.pickover.com/hoax.html
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Spud Server
The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC.
http://totl.net/Spud
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Idiosyntactix Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia
Extensive list of hoaxes, with links.
http://www.syntac.net/hoax/index.php
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1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast
Wavs of the famous Orson Welles & The Mercury Theatre On-The-Air radio broadcast of H.G. Wells'
War of the Worlds
http://www.earthstation1.com/wotw.html
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Piltdown Plot
Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history.
http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/pp_map.html
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The American Association of Hoaxed Anomalies
Dedicated to purging the paranormal industrial complex of hoaxes and frauds.
http://www.bighoax.com/
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Pseudoscience
Scientific hoaxes, such as radionics, laundry balls, mesmerism, cold fusion, and flat earth
theories.
http://www.syntac.net/hoax/science.php
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