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Art and UFO (Popularity: )
http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Arte_UFO.htm
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.

1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast (Popularity: )
http://www.earthstation1.com/wotw.html
Wavs of the famous Orson Welles & The Mercury Theatre On-The-Air radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds



Museum of Hoaxes (Popularity: )
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com
Extensive collection of history's most famous hoaxes and April Fool's pranks. Listed by date and category. Includes bibliographic references.

Spud Server (Popularity: )
http://totl.net/Spud
The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC.



MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery (Popularity: )
http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks
The MIT Gallery of Hacks (Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People). Hoaxes and pranks perpetrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

James Randi Educational Foundation (Popularity: )
http://www.randi.org/
Magician and skeptic James Randi debunks psychics, medical frauds, televangelists, and others. Offers a million dollar reward for proof of occult, psychic or supernatural powers.

Tracking the White Salamander (Popularity: )
http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/trackingcontents.htm
Online Book telling the story of Mark Hoffman who forged Mormon documents and was convicted of murder

Skeptic's Dictionary: Frauds and Hoaxes (Popularity: )
http://skepdic.com/tifraud.html
Discussion of 22 hoaxes, including Cardiff Giant, crop circles, and the Philadelphia Experiment

Piltdown Plot (Popularity: )
http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/pp_map.html
Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history.

Net Hoax Hall of Fame (Popularity: )
http://www.cnet.com/specialreports/0-6014-7-1427917.html
C|Net lampoons net pranksters and gullible netizens.

The Hoax Files (Popularity: )
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hoax1.html
Assorted collection of hoaxes, including sports hoaxes and art forgeries

Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of Hoaxes (Popularity: )
http://www.pickover.com/hoax.html
Discusses a number of scientific and medical hoaxes, including Mary Toft and the Rabbit Babies (about which he authored a book). Includes links and images.

World's Biggest Telescope to Prove Americans Really Walked on Moon (Popularity: )
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/24/nmoon24.xml
Daily Telegraph article by Robert Matthews.

April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes (Popularity: )
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0331_030401_aprilfool.html
National Geographic News has compiled a listing of some of the greatest hoaxes in history.

History Buff : "Hoaxes in Journalism" Articles (Popularity: )
http://www.historybuff.com/library/refhoaxes.html
Offers six articles on hoaxes, including petrification hoaxes and the day they sawed off manhattan.

MoodShadows Index (Popularity: )
http://www.futuresunltd.com/sudarshan/MoonShadows/moon_index.htm
Presented by a man who claims to have grown up next door to a space program worker.

Dark Side of the Moon Landings (Popularity: )
http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/094_moon.shtml
In-depth analysis of the usual photos, as well as some which are not usual.

The Great Moon Hoax (Popularity: )
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23feb_2.htm
Rebuttal from NASA in which they explain their assertion that both moon rocks and common sense prove that the astronauts landed on the moon.

The Straight Dope Mailbag: Was the Apollo Moon Landing a Hoax? (Popularity: )
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmoonhoax.html
Rebuttal of claims that the NASA moon landings were an elaborate hoax.

NASA Debunks Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy (Popularity: )
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/02/19/nasa.moon/
CNN's Sci-Tech article about the television show which re-popularized the issue. Includes message boards and related stories.

 
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