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• - Assorted collection of hoaxes, including sports hoaxes and art forgeries
  
• - The story and photos of the nonexistent Cottingley fairies.
  
• - Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history.
  
• - Discussion of 22 hoaxes, including Cardiff Giant, crop circles, and the Philadelphia Experiment
  
• - Online Book telling the story of Mark Hoffman who forged Mormon documents and was convicted of murder
  
• - Bogdanovs affaire: Or, Has Physics been bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? Discussion and correspondence.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Bibliography of books about hoaxes.
  
• - 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.
  
• - The MIT Gallery of Hacks (Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People). Hoaxes and pranks perpetrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  
• - Pictures and information provide facts to debunk wild internet rumors about this spider.
  
• - Wavs of the famous Orson Welles & The Mercury Theatre On-The-Air radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds
  
• - C|Net lampoons net pranksters and gullible netizens.
  
• - Dedicated to purging the paranormal industrial complex of hoaxes and frauds.
  
• - The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC.
  
• - Extensive collection of history's most famous hoaxes and April Fool's pranks. Listed by date and category. Includes bibliographic references.
  
• - National Geographic News has compiled a listing of some of the greatest hoaxes in history.
  
• - Investigation reveals that the mothman was actually a Red-shouldered Hawk.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Offers six articles on hoaxes, including petrification hoaxes and the day they sawed off manhattan.