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- 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
www.earthstation1.com/wotw.html
- Bibliography of Hoaxes - Bibliography of books about hoaxes.
www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hoaxbib.htm
- 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.
www.pickover.com/hoax.html
- 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.
www.csicop.org/articles/april_fools_1998
- Eric's history of Perpetual Motion and Free Energy Machines - In-depth historical timeline of people who have promised free energy or perpetual motion. Includes links.
www.voicenet.com/~eric/dennis4.html
- History Buff : "Hoaxes in Journalism" Articles - Part of Discovery.com. Offers six articles on hoaxes, including petrification hoaxes and the day they sawed off manhattan.
www.discovery.com/guides/history/historybuff/library/refhoaxes.html
- Idiosyntactix Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia - Extensive list of hoaxes, with links.
www.syntac.net/hoax/index.php
- James Randi Educational Foundation - Magician and skeptic James Randi debunks psychics, medical frauds, televangelists, and others. Offers a million dollar reward for proof of occult, psychic or supernatural powers.
www.randi.org
- Joey Skaggs - Homepage of Joey Skaggs: hoaxer, socio-political satirist, media activist, culture jammer, etc. Includes an interesting retrospective of his many hoaxes.
www.hoaxes.com
- Meet Mark Hoffman - A document forger-turned-assassin, Mark Hoffman's knack for "finding" Mormon historical documents and then selling them to the church resulted in scandal and murder.
www.connect-a.net/users/drshades/hofmann.htm
- MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery - The MIT Gallery of Hacks (Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People). Hoaxes and pranks perpetrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
hacks.mit.edu/Hacks
- Museum of Hoaxes - Extensive collection of history's most famous hoaxes and April Fool's pranks. Listed by date and category. Includes bibliographic references.
www.museumofhoaxes.com
- Net Hoax Hall of Fame - C|Net lampoons net pranksters and gullible netizens.
www.cnet.com/specialreports/0-6014-7-1427917.html
- Piltdown Plot - Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history.
www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/pp_map.html
- Pseudoscience - Scientific hoaxes, such as radionics, laundry balls, mesmerism, cold fusion, and flat earth theories.
www.syntac.net/hoax/science.php
- Skeptic's Dictionary: Frauds and Hoaxes - Discussion of 22 hoaxes, including Cardiff Giant, crop circles, and the Philadelphia Experiment
skepdic.com/tifraud.html
- Spud Server - The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC.
totl.net/Spud
- The American Association of Hoaxed Anomalies - Dedicated to purging the paranormal industrial complex of hoaxes and frauds.
www.bighoax.com
- The Hoax Files - Assorted collection of hoaxes, including sports hoaxes and art forgeries
www.infoplease.com/spot/hoax1.html
- Tracking the White Salamander - Online Book telling the story of Mark Hoffman who forged Mormon documents and was convicted of murder
www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/trackingcontents.htm
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