2006-09-29 16:02:49 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Money, fame, notoriety, thrills. One or all of the above.
2006-09-29 16:07:33 · answer #1 · answered by papershadows 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd love to see you try to make the shroud of turin in the 21st century, much less the 14th. If it is a fake it was a phenomenally exceptional fake. The Hitler diaries were easy, along with the stuff that Brown talked about in a recent popular book. The crop circles are fun hoaxes, except to the farmers who won't get a full crop. It is a puzzle and sometimes the results are far more interesting than we would expect. Then again, sometimes there may be something real in there that is simply too good to be--wrong.
2006-09-29 23:14:03 · answer #2 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hoaxes by Category
The Shroud of Turin (1355) Maria Monk (1836) The Great Disappointment (1843) ... A Tale of a Tub (1917) The Hitler Diaries...
www.museumofhoaxes.com/category.html
Shroud of Turin, sacred relic or religious...
You are in: CRIMINAL MIND/SCAMS & HOAXES ... Hitler Diaries. Lincoln Forgers. Mormon Forgery Murders. Piltdown Man....
www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/sca...
Shroud Of Turin Egypt Description...
... freelance criminologist, Max Frei, who once pronounced the forged Hitler Diaries genuine. ... of academic fringe...
shroud-source.info/shroud-of-turin-egy...
2006-09-29 23:06:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never thought of the shroud as a fake as much as a mis interpretation. Someone wanted it to be what it is claimed to be.
2006-09-29 23:12:11 · answer #4 · answered by JFra472449 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One time, I signed some famous baseball player's name on an old beat up baseball and gave it to some jerk so he would go make a fool out of himself. (A bigger fool!)
That was just plain mean, but we all got a big kick out of it. That was a long time ago. I don't think I would do anything like that now.
and bless the little pygmies over in Africa.....
2006-09-29 23:48:22 · answer #5 · answered by NANCY K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You forgot to mention the Piltown man
2006-09-29 23:04:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's fun to mess with people.
2006-09-29 23:10:38 · answer #7 · answered by Hogan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with everyone.
2006-09-29 23:09:28 · answer #8 · answered by Doris D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋