Hoaxes

A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth. It is distinguishable from errors in observation or judgment, rumors, urban legends, pseudosciences, and April Fools' Day events that are passed along in good faith by believers or as jokes. ...more

Hoaxes Books

A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes, and Frauds

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade

Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan

The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor

The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York

Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth

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Surviving With Wolves by Misha Defonseca

The Hand That Signed the Paper by Helen Dale

Fake Autobiographies

39 books — 23 voters

Look Out, It's April Fools' Day by Frank Modell

April Fool's Day

57 books — 1 voter

Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl Wiggins

Forbidden Archeology by Michael A. Cremo

The Wine Dark Sea, Homer's Epic of the North Atlantic by Henriette Mertz

Technology of the Gods by David Hatcher Childress

Snarfeology

181 books — 5 voters

Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal

Real life hoaxes, frauds, schemes, and imposters

47 books — 16 voters

Love to Last a Lifetime by Susan Meachen

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

One Soldier's War in Chechnya by Arkady Babchenko

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley by Aleister Crowley

Authors Who Faked Their Own Death

10 books — 6 voters

The Life and Death of Rochester Sneath by Humphry Berkeley

Joke Letters

9 books — 7 voters

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Philosophy
Deception
Lies
Conspiracy Theories
Cryptozoology

Pseudoscience
Déception
Pseudohistory
Pseudomedicine
Phílosophy

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Quotes Tagged “Hoaxes”

“ If you think that climate change and global warming are hoaxes, then you are easily fooled. ”
― Steven Magee

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“ Maggie and Katy found themselves trapped. 'Soon it went so far and so many persons had heard the 'rappings' that we could not confess the wrong without exciting very great anger on the part of the those we had deceived So we went right on," Maggie would explain forty years later. ...more ”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox

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