Book 01
The Cottingley Fairies
The Photographs That Fooled the World for 66 Years
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Vol. 1
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
Book 02
The Cardiff Giant
America's Most Famous Stone Man — and Its Greatest Hoax
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Book 03
The Piltdown Men
The Painted Skull That Fooled Science for 41 Years
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Book 04
The Horned Helmet
How One Opera Costume Changed What the World Believed About Vikings
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Book 05
The Martian Invasion
The Radio Broadcast That Made America Believe Aliens Had Landed
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Book 06
The Crop Circle Makers
Scientists Were Baffled for Years — Until Two Men Confessed
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Book 07
Barnum's Mermaid
The World's Most Famous Mermaid Was a Monkey Sewn to a Fish
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Book 08
Nessie
The Most Famous Monster Photograph Ever Taken Was a Toy Submarine
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Book 09
One Minute of Bigfoot
The Patterson-Gimlin Film and the Ape That May Never Have Existed
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Book 10
Life on the Moon
The 1835 Newspaper That Reported Bat-Men Living on the Moon
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Book 11
The Bermuda Triangle
The World's Most Dangerous Stretch of Ocean — Or the World's Biggest Myth?
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