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List of religious hoaxes; List of scholarly publishing hoaxes; Literary forgery; Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine, alleged location of hidden treasure; Mummy forgeries; Oak Island, alleged location of hidden treasure; Trap street, a common hoax of exposure consisting of a fictitious street deliberately included on a copyrighted map to expose plagiarists
Joice Heth (c. 1756 [citation needed] – February 19, 1836) [1] was an African-American woman who was exhibited by P.T. Barnum with the false claim that she was the 161-year-old nursing mammy of George Washington. Her exhibition under these claims, and her public autopsy, gained considerable notoriety.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...