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The Cardiff Giant, a hoax of a hoax; P. T. Barnum had a replica made because he could not obtain the "genuine" hoax item. The CERN ritual , a supposed occult sacrifice on the grounds of CERN . China Under the Empress Dowager , co-authored by Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet using a forged diary as a major source, with a manuscript of Backhouse ...
Allah as a lunar deity; Surah of Wilaya and Nurayn – two surahs that are seen as forgeries by both Sunni and Shi'a Muslims.While the source of these texts is not clear, they have been used to accuse Shi'ites of corrupting the Qur'an by adding them to the official text, an accusation that is widely rejected by the Shi'a community.
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.
Philip Aegidius Walshe (actually Montgomery Carmichael), The Life of John William Walshe, F.S.A., London, Burns & Oates, (1901); New York, E. P. Dutton (1902). This book was presented as a son’s story of his father’s life in Italy as “a profound mystic and student of everything relating to St. Francis of Assisi,” but the son, the father and the memoir were all invented by Montgomery ...
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 hoax; The Greek Psalter ...
From premature obituaries to hoaxes, rumors and conspiracy theories, these stars turned out to be alive and well Celebrity Death Hoaxes: 51 Famous People Who Were Reported Dead… but Weren’t ...
Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work, which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author, or is a purported memoir or other presumably nonfictional writing deceptively presented as true when, in fact, it presents ...
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