1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast 
Wavs of the famous Orson Welles & The Mercury Theatre On-The-Air radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds
http://www.earthstation1.com/wotw.html
April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes 
National Geographic News has compiled a listing of some of the greatest hoaxes in history.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0331_030401_aprilfool.html
Art and UFO 
A study about the alleged UFOs in renaissance paintings. The "strange flying objects" someone find in ancient art are only sacred art symbols, not UFOs.
http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Arte_UFO.htm
Camel Spiders Myth 
Pictures and information provide facts to debunk wild internet rumors about this spider.
http://www.camelspiders.net/
Cassiopaea 
Bogdanovs affaire: Or, Has Physics been bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? Discussion and correspondence.
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/bogdanovs.htm
Cottingley Fairies Hoax 
The story and photos of the nonexistent Cottingley fairies.
http://www.cottingleyconnect.org.uk/fairies.htm
Don't Be Fooled: Strange Hoaxes That Endure 
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal article that discusses ten hoaxes, including the Roswell Incident, Cottingley Fairies, Amityville Horror, and psychic surgery.
http://www.csicop.org/articles/april_fools_1998/
MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery 
The MIT Gallery of Hacks (Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People). Hoaxes and pranks perpetrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks
Museum of Hoaxes 
Extensive collection of history's most famous hoaxes and April Fool's pranks. Listed by date and category. Includes bibliographic references.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com
Piltdown Man 
Piltdown man was one of the most famous hoaxes in science. Covers the history of the hoax, its reception by the paleontological community, how the hoax was executed, its exposure, myths and misconceptions, and theories about the perpetrator.
http://home.tiac.net/~cri_a/piltdown/piltdown.html
Piltdown Plot 
Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history.
http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/pp_map.html
SCIgen - An Automatic Computer Science Paper Generator 
SCIgen is a program that generates random computer science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Generated papers are meant for amusement.
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
Spud Server 
The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC.
http://totl.net/Spud
The Hoax Files 
Assorted collection of hoaxes, including sports hoaxes and art forgeries
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hoax1.html
Tracking the White Salamander 
Online Book telling the story of Mark Hoffman who forged Mormon documents and was convicted of murder
http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/trackingcontents.htm
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