2007-10-08 19:14:54 · 18 answers · asked by The Doctor 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Christianity
2007-10-08 19:18:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 3⤋
Perhaps it would be one of Barnum's.
His conjoined twins, Chang and Eng were not from Thailand, yet his calling them Siamese twins is a name that has stuck with that particular condition ever since.
Piltdown man is a pretty good candidate too. This particular hoax was in textbooks until the mid twentieth century. When they discovered it, a young student who had worked with the original discoverers was still living, though a very old man. There were never any charges brought against him, but it reportedly shook him up, because of something he hadn't noticed, overlooked mostly because of his respect for the older men who brought it to him.
2007-10-08 22:14:22 · answer #2 · answered by william_byrnes2000 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
War of the Worlds, original radio broadcast. Was just a story being read on the radio, and people thought it was real. Wasn't meant as a hoax, but the reaction was the same.
Other than that, crop circles were good, the guy who did big foot foot prints and the shroud of turin.
2007-10-08 19:24:52 · answer #3 · answered by Noota Oolah 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if it's true that Neil Armstrong didn't really land on the moon and that it was all staged in a studio, (footage of the US flag fluttering on the moon was shown to be evidence of this) then that would have to be a cracker of a hoax. And if that wasn't a hoax, then the notion that it was a hoax and all the evidence gathered to prove it was, certainly makes a great hoax!!
2007-10-08 19:42:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Orson Wells radio broadcast of " War of the Worlds" on Halloween.
2007-10-09 00:50:26 · answer #5 · answered by ladyhawk8141 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is a funny military hoax happened during the Napoleonic war, int he campaign that drove to Austerlitz.
French had to occupy the only remained bridge on Danube b near Wien. But Austrian had put many cannons to protect it. It was impossible taking it without seeing it destroyed.
General Murat and another General arrived to the bridge, and , without any soldier, they passed it and went sitting on Austrian cannons, taking sun on them ... Austrian Soldiers were astonished.. Arrived a Austrian Colonel and asked them what was happening. They answered there have been a truce, that he should have been already informed, and that bridge have to pass under French control. Austrian Colonel was speechless... what could he do ? Meanwhile, with whole calm, Murat started to rest on a Austrian cannon , almost sleeping... Austrian colonel ordered troops and cannons, to retreat. The road to occupying Wien was opened..
2007-10-08 20:18:03 · answer #6 · answered by lugfabio 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There are just too many to choose from, but the "millennium bug" hoax in/re computer failure may have been the most expensive one.
2007-10-08 19:36:32 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 8⤊ 0⤋
the martian invasion broadcasted by Orson Welles in the 1930s.
2007-10-08 19:22:22 · answer #8 · answered by chemo38 2 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Ben Affleck pretending to be an actor.
2007-10-08 20:15:49 · answer #9 · answered by rohak1212 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Religion.
2007-10-08 19:21:53 · answer #10 · answered by Montag 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋