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Hoaxes Links

• 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
  
• Museum of Hoaxes Extensive collection of history's most famous hoaxes and April Fool's pranks. Listed by date and category. Includes bibliographic references.
  
• Piltdown Plot Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history.
  
• Idiosyntactix Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia Extensive list of hoaxes, with links.
  
• Skeptic's Dictionary: Frauds and Hoaxes Discussion of 22 hoaxes, including Cardiff Giant, crop circles, and the Philadelphia Experiment
  
• The Piltdown Man Scandal Story of the origins of the fake fossil and how its authenticity was disproved.
  
• 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.
  
• P.N.E.C. Nuke Plant Hoax Site Details the hoax pulled on the media in Portland, Oregon, claiming a nuclear plant was going to be built on a federal wetland in Astoria, Oregon. Newsprint stories are listed here as well as links to media outlets that got conned.
  
• The American Association of Hoaxed Anomalies Dedicated to purging the paranormal industrial complex of hoaxes and frauds.
  
• Pseudoscience Scientific hoaxes, such as radionics, laundry balls, mesmerism, cold fusion, and flat earth theories.
  
• History Buff : "Hoaxes in Journalism" Articles Part of Discovery.com. Offers six articles on hoaxes, including petrification hoaxes and the day they sawed off manhattan.
  
• Net Hoax Hall of Fame C|Net lampoons net pranksters and gullible netizens.
  
• Joey Skaggs Homepage of Joey Skaggs: hoaxer, socio-political satirist, media activist, culture jammer, etc. Includes an interesting retrospective of his many hoaxes.
  
• Great Hoaxes - Mysteries of History U.S. News article that discusses a number of hoaxes including: The Cardiff Giant, Piltdown Man, Tasadays, Newark Holy Stones, crop circles, fairy photos, Kirlian photos, etc.
  
• Tracking the White Salamander Online Book telling the story of Mark Hoffman who forged Mormon documents and was convicted of murder
  
• Spud Server The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC.
  
• The Hoax Files Assorted collection of hoaxes, including sports hoaxes and art forgeries
  
• Bibliography of Hoaxes Bibliography of books about hoaxes.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery The MIT Gallery of Hacks (Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People). Hoaxes and pranks perpetrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.