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      The Mothman Investigation

      Investigation reveals that the mothman was actually a Red-shouldered Hawk.
      http://www.webspawner.com/users/mothmaninvestigation/index.html

      The American Association of Hoaxed Anomalies

      Dedicated to purging the paranormal industrial complex of hoaxes and frauds.
      http://www.bighoax.com/

      Piltdown Plot

      Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history.
      http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/pp_map.html

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

      Spud Server

      The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC.
      http://totl.net/Spud

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

      Net Hoax Hall of Fame

      C|Net lampoons net pranksters and gullible netizens.
      http://www.cnet.com/specialreports/0-6014-7-1427917.html

      Museum of Hoaxes

      Extensive collection of history's most famous hoaxes and April Fool's pranks. Listed by date and category. Includes bibliographic references.
      http://www.museumofhoaxes.com

      Tracking the White Salamander

      Online Book telling the story of Mark Hoffman who forged Mormon documents and was convicted of murder
      http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/trackingcontents.htm

      The Hoax Files

      Assorted collection of hoaxes, including sports hoaxes and art forgeries
      http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hoax1.html

      Skeptic's Dictionary: Frauds and Hoaxes

      Discussion of 22 hoaxes, including Cardiff Giant, crop circles, and the Philadelphia Experiment
      http://skepdic.com/tifraud.html
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      MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery

      The MIT Gallery of Hacks (Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People). Hoaxes and pranks perpetrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
      http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks

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

      History Buff : "Hoaxes in Journalism" Articles

      Offers six articles on hoaxes, including petrification hoaxes and the day they sawed off manhattan.
      http://www.historybuff.com/library/refhoaxes.html

      Art and UFO

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

      Cassiopaea

      Bogdanovs affaire: Or, Has Physics been bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? Discussion and correspondence.
      http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/bogdanovs.htm

      Piltdown Man

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

      April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes

      National Geographic News has compiled a listing of some of the greatest hoaxes in history.
      http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0331_030401_aprilfool.html

      Bibliography of Hoaxes

      Bibliography of books about hoaxes.
      http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hoaxbib.htm

      Cottingley Fairies Hoax

      The story and photos of the nonexistent Cottingley fairies.
      http://www.cottingleyconnect.org.uk/fairies.htm

      Camel Spiders Myth

      Pictures and information provide facts to debunk wild internet rumors about this spider.
      http://www.camelspiders.net/

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