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Lucy Lightfoot, a supposed legend from the Isle of Wight about a girl who disappeared in 1831; she was later admitted to have been made up in the 1960s by the vicar of St Olave's Church, Gatcombe. Llandegley International Airport, a non-existent airport indicated by a real roadside sign in Wales since 2002. Ern Malley, a fictitious poet.
Public reaction was mixed; some accepted the images as genuine, others believed that they had been faked. Interest in the Cottingley Fairies gradually declined after 1921. Both girls married and lived abroad for a time after they grew up, and yet the photographs continued to hold the public imagination.
This category includes notable proven hoaxes and incidents determined to be hoaxes by reliable sources. An article's inclusion on this list is not intended to disparage the authenticity of the report, but to denote that it is in general considered, or evidenced, as having been created as a hoax, or was known to be false (or a joke) as created.
Unless you've lived under a rock for the last year, you've seen photos on social media that just don't look quite right because they were created by a computer. Artificial intelligence has taken ...
“Of Hoaxes and Homicide” (304 pages, hardcover) costs $28 from Minotaur. Anastasia Hastings is a pseudonym; the author writes under many other names, including Mimi Granger (the Love is Murder ...
A Gay Girl in Damascus; George Mason University's historical hoaxes; Giant penguin hoax; Giant human skeletons; Suicide of Joe Gliniewicz; Global Warming Hoax of 1874; Gorgeous Guy; Gospel of Jesus' Wife; Grave Creek Stone; Great Blue Hill eruption prank; Great Moon Hoax; Great Rose Bowl Hoax; Great Salt Lake whale hoax; Great Wall of China ...
Ashley Morgan Smithline has recanted sexual abuse allegations against Marilyn Manson, and now says she was “manipulated” by Manson’s ex-girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood to come forward with false ...
Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e] [s 1] The ...