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1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast

http://www.earthstation1.com/wotw.html

Wavs of the famous Orson Welles & The Mercury Theatre On-The-Air radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds

April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0331_030401_aprilfool.html

National Geographic News has compiled a listing of some of the greatest hoaxes in history.

Art and UFO

http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Arte_UFO.htm

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.

Bibliography of Hoaxes

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hoaxbib.htm

Bibliography of books about hoaxes.

Camel Spiders Myth

http://www.camelspiders.net/

Pictures and information provide facts to debunk wild internet rumors about this spider.

Cassiopaea

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/bogdanovs.htm

Bogdanovs affaire: Or, Has Physics been bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? Discussion and correspondence.

Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of Hoa

http://www.pickover.com/hoax.html

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.

Cottingley Fairies Hoax

http://www.cottingleyconnect.org.uk/fairies.htm

The story and photos of the nonexistent Cottingley fairies.

CSICOP:Strange Hoaxes That Endure

http://www.csicop.org/articles/april_fools_1998/

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.

History Buff : "Hoaxes in Journalism" Ar

http://www.historybuff.com/library/refhoaxes.html

Offers six articles on hoaxes, including petrification hoaxes and the day they sawed off manhattan.

MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery

http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks

The MIT Gallery of Hacks (Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People). Hoaxes and pranks perpetrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Museum of Hoaxes

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com

Extensive collection of history's most famous hoaxes and April Fool's pranks. Listed by date and category. Includes bibliographic references.

Net Hoax Hall of Fame

http://www.cnet.com/specialreports/0-6014-7-1427917.html

C;Net lampoons net pranksters and gullible netizens.

Piltdown Man

http://home.tiac.net/~cri_a/piltdown/piltdown.html

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.

Piltdown Plot

http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/pp_map.html

Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history.

Skeptic's Dictionary: Frauds and Hoaxes

http://skepdic.com/tifraud.html

Discussion of 22 hoaxes, including Cardiff Giant, crop circles, and the Philadelphia Experiment

Spud Server

http://totl.net/Spud

The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC.

The American Association of Hoaxed Anomalies

http://www.bighoax.com/

Dedicated to purging the paranormal industrial complex of hoaxes and frauds.