Vol 1 · 11 books

Hoaxes

Someone lied — but who, and why?

From fake fossils to trick photographs, we investigate the greatest hoaxes in history — and ask how clever people were fooled for so long.

Books in This Volume

11 books

The Photographs That Fooled the World for 66 Years

America's Most Famous Stone Man — and Its Greatest Hoax

The Painted Skull That Fooled Science for 41 Years

How One Opera Costume Changed What the World Believed About Vikings

The Radio Broadcast That Made America Believe Aliens Had Landed

Scientists Were Baffled for Years — Until Two Men Confessed

The World's Most Famous Mermaid Was a Monkey Sewn to a Fish

The Most Famous Monster Photograph Ever Taken Was a Toy Submarine

The Patterson-Gimlin Film and the Ape That May Never Have Existed

The 1835 Newspaper That Reported Bat-Men Living on the Moon

The World's Most Dangerous Stretch of Ocean — Or the World's Biggest Myth?

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