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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/
Piltdown Plot
Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history.
http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/pp_map.html
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
Spud Server
The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC.
http://totl.net/Spud
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
Net Hoax Hall of Fame
C|Net lampoons net pranksters and gullible netizens.
http://www.cnet.com/specialreports/0-6014-7-1427917.html
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
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/
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
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
The Hoax Files
Assorted collection of hoaxes, including sports hoaxes and art forgeries
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hoax1.html
Skeptic's Dictionary: Frauds and Hoaxes
Discussion of 22 hoaxes, including Cardiff Giant, crop circles, and the Philadelphia Experiment
http://skepdic.com/tifraud.html
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
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/
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
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
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
Cassiopaea
Bogdanovs affaire: Or, Has Physics been bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? Discussion and correspondence.
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/bogdanovs.htm
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
The Mothman Investigation
Investigation reveals that the mothman was actually a Red-shouldered Hawk.
http://www.webspawner.com/users/mothmaninvestigation/index.html
April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes
National Geographic News has compiled a listing of some of the greatest hoaxes in history.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0331_030401_aprilfool.html
Bibliography of Hoaxes
Bibliography of books about hoaxes.
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hoaxbib.htm
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