Bibliography of Hoaxes
Bibliography of books about hoaxes. |
CSICOP:Strange Hoaxes That Endure
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. |
History Buff : "Hoaxes in Journalism" Articles
Part of Discovery.com. Offers six articles on hoaxes, including petrification hoaxes and the day they sawed off manhattan. |
James Randi Educational Foundation
Magician and skeptic James Randi debunks psychics, medical frauds, televangelists, and others. Offers a million dollar reward for proof of occult, psychic or supernatural powers. |
Joey Skaggs
Homepage of Joey Skaggs: hoaxer, socio-political satirist, media activist, culture jammer, etc. Includes an interesting retrospective of his many hoaxes. |
MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery
The MIT Gallery of Hacks (Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People). Hoaxes and pranks perpetrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
Net Hoax Hall of Fame
C|Net lampoons net pranksters and gullible netizens. |
Piltdown Plot
Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history. |
Pseudoscience
Scientific hoaxes, such as radionics, laundry balls, mesmerism, cold fusion, and flat earth theories. |
Spud Server
The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC. |
The American Association of Hoaxed Anomalies
Dedicated to purging the paranormal industrial complex of hoaxes and frauds. |
The Hoax Files
Assorted collection of hoaxes, including sports hoaxes and art forgeries |
Tracking the White Salamander
Online Book telling the story of Mark Hoffman who forged Mormon documents and was convicted of murder |
