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In 1977, a voice claiming to be an alien took over British TV for four minutes
At 5:10 p.m. on Saturday 26 November 1977, viewers in parts of southern England watching an ITN...
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"allegedly appeared to make the graffiti seem like it was written by a white President Trump...
The blurry sonar blob tabloids turned into a sunken UFO
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The hoaxter who claimed he could fit a whole movie in one kilobyte
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The fan fiction that rewrote Harry Potter as an evangelical tract
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Dwile flonking, the ancient pub sport invented in 1966
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The ancient spark plug and other "out-of-place artifacts"
The Coso artifact, dug from a California hillside in 1961 and claimed to be prehistoric, was...
In 1872 a ship was found drifting, empty. The 1913 "solution" was absurd.
In 1913, the Strand Magazine invited contributors and readers to propose solutions to the mystery...
John Titor, the internet's most famous time traveler, vanished in 2001
Starting in November 2000, a poster using the handle TimeTravel_0 showed up on an internet forum...
Carlos Castaneda faked an anthropology classic, then built a cult
Carlos Castaneda's 1968 book The Teachings of Don Juan recounted his apprenticeship to a...
In 1916 a con man ran a car on water and fleeced Henry Ford
In 1916, a bearded Long Island showman named Louis Enricht gathered reporters on his lawn and...
An expedition spent years looking for an Arctic island that didn't exist
In 1913 a party set out to map Crocker Land, "a huge island supposedly sighted by the explorer...
In 1835 a New York paper put bat-men and unicorns on the moon
The "Great Moon Hoax" began on August 25, 1835, when The Sun, a New York newspaper, ran the first...
Trump-Hating Asian Student From U. Illinois Planted Burning Cross in Chicago Park
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Two Italian brothers claimed to have recorded dying Soviet cosmonauts that Moscow erased from history
The Lost Cosmonauts theory alleges that the Soviet Union launched humans into space before Yuri...