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The American Association of Hoaxed Anomalies  - http://www.bighoax.com/  Dedicated to purging the paranormal industrial complex of hoaxes and frauds.  Piltdown Plot  - http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/pp_map.html  Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history.  1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast  - 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  Spud Server  - http://totl.net/Spud  The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC.  Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of Hoaxes  - 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.  Net Hoax Hall of Fame  - http://www.cnet.com/specialreports/0-6014-7-1427917.html  C|Net lampoons net pranksters and gullible netizens.  Museum of Hoaxes  - 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.  Tracking the White Salamander  - http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/trackingcontents.htm  Online Book telling the story of Mark Hoffman who forged Mormon documents and was convicted of murder  The Hoax Files  - http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hoax1.html  Assorted collection of hoaxes, including sports hoaxes and art forgeries  Skeptic's Dictionary: Frauds and Hoaxes  - http://skepdic.com/tifraud.html  Discussion of 22 hoaxes, including Cardiff Giant, crop circles, and the Philadelphia Experiment  MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery  - 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.  CSICOP:Strange Hoaxes That Endure  - http://www.csicop.org/articles/april_fools_1998/  Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: article that discusses 10 hoaxes, including the Roswell Incident, Cottingley Fairies, Amityville Horror, and psychic surgery.  History Buff : "Hoaxes in Journalism" Articles  - http://www.historybuff.com/library/refhoaxes.html  Offers six articles on hoaxes, including petrification hoaxes and the day they sawed off manhattan.  Art and UFO  - 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.  Cassiopaea  - http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/bogdanovs.htm  Bogdanovs affaire: Or, Has Physics been bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? Discussion and correspondence.  Piltdown Man  - http://home.tiac.net/~cri_a/piltdown/piltdown.html  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.  The Mothman Investigation  - http://www.webspawner.com/users/mothmaninvestigation/index.html  Investigation reveals that the mothman was actually a Red-shouldered Hawk.  April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes  - 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.  Bibliography of Hoaxes  - http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hoaxbib.htm  Bibliography of books about hoaxes.  Camel Spiders Myth  - http://www.camelspiders.net/  Pictures and information provide facts to debunk wild internet rumors about this spider.  Cottingley Fairies Hoax  - http://www.cottingleyconnect.org.uk/fairies.htm  The story and photos of the nonexistent Cottingley fairies.