In 1973, 15 college basketball players were honore...  ...1974, or any other year, because the award was a hoax , cooked up by four students at College of William...  ...won those awards only recently found out it was a hoax . Forty years on, most think it was a pretty good...

Photographic evidence has been an act of faith sin...  ...an act of faith since the 1830s! The first photo hoax was perpetrated by a competitor of Louis Daguerre...  ...and's ghostly arms around her. See ten such photo hoaxes at Flavorwire. Link

No chalupa for you, Bethel, Alas...  ...co Bell opening was just a cruel, cruel hoax : It was some unique form of tund...

Hoax master Alan Abel has been fooling reporters and h...  ...nder of Omar's School for Beggars, a long-running hoax that brough attention to unemployment and homeles...  ...ut of his prank's budgets. You might say he lives hoax to hoax ....

You can't fool all the people all of the time. But...  ...oday's pop culture blog. When Kelly announced the hoax at the end of the semester, some were amused, app...  ...w, larger class was likely to create two separate hoaxes . He told members of the public to "consider yours...  ...tch together these truthful...

You may have read the story about the Chinese re-release of the movie Titanic. The nude scene was cut from the 3D version because of fears that Chinese men would reach out and try to grab Kate Winslet's, um, assets. Jame...

by Marc Abrahams, Improbable Research staff Some psychoanalysts can find meaning in the most ordinary-seeming bits of your life. Some discern it even in your intestinal rumblings. There’s a technical name for those...

A talking weasel on the Isle of Man was an interna...  ...ded the voice of Gef, but she never admitted to a hoax . Link

The following is an article from Uncle John's Supr...  ...s back to the late 1840s. Here's the story of the hoax that started spirit-mania. BUMP IN THE NIGHT...  ...t-foot," the "murder," and everything else- was a hoax . "We wanted to terrify our dear mother," Margaret...  ...reat that the Fox sisters were a...

Someone got hold of an Arizona Department of Transportation electronic sign on Fort Valley Road in Flagstaff this week, and changed the message about left turns to "Rogue Panda on Rampage." Authorities said there is no...