Anyone know some famous hoaxes (that were debunked)?

Answer 1

Kennedy-Lincoln coincidences

Answer 2

In Britain in early 1900s there were these two young girls who had made fake pictures of themselves playing with fairies. They had people believing them for decades until one of the women confessed later in her life.

The Hilter Diaries were a series of diaries that were published in a German magazine after the Holocaust. They were later exposed as forgeries

In 1925 , Victor Lustig , a professinal con artist , sent out a letter to several metal collectors in France , and was bale to convince them that he was sell ling the Eiffel Tower for scrap metal.He actually convinced a man to pay him , and fled the country before the man realized he's been tricked. Th poor man was too embarrassed to go to the police so Victor dodged arrest.

Bonzai Kittens was an Internet hoax that claimed to sell kittens stuck inside glass jars. This outraged PETA , but it turned out to be just a joke played by MIT graduates.

Banadine- a drug that was said to be made of bananas. The sells of bananas grew rapidly during this hoax's popularity.

Those are just some i find amusing.

Answer 3

In 1977, the April 1 edition of the UK newspaper "The Guardian" famously included a seven-page supplement to mark the tenth anniversary of independence of the island nation of San Serriffe. The islands did not exist, and the entire supplement was a hoax. Its text was rich with wordplay on various typographical terms.

Answer 4

The Piltdown man, Lockness monster photographs, Orson Well's War of the World's radio hoax. Check out this website:
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/

Answer 5

Lots of stuff --

crop circles, peking man, cardiff giant, piltdown man, Pope John VIII/Joan, "paul is dead", Y2K, Drakes plate of brass.... bigfoot, jackalopes, all sorts of stuff

Once in Banff as a kid, I as in a curiousity shop, and there was the top half skeleton of a child sewn to the bottom half of a large fish skeleton. It was completely creepy, and obviously fake.

People LOVE making things up. One of the biggest pranksters in American history was P.T. Barnum.

Here is one source: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax

Answer 6

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Answer 7

the most famous of all: the piltdown man of england. but it did fool people for quite some time.

Answer 8

WMD in Iraq