Hoax

A hoax is an attempt to trick one or more people into believing something is real that is not.

The status of a given factoid as reliable or hoax is often the subject of considerable controversy.

Proven Hoaxes

• The Balloon-Hoax
• The Hitler Diaries
• "Piltdown Man"
• Protocols of the Elders of Zion
• Taxil hoax
• The 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast by Orson Welles
• The Report From Iron Mountain

Probable Hoaxes

• Crop circles
• Loch Ness Monster
• The alien autopsy film[?]

Possible Hoaxes

• The Vinland map

Fictitious people

• Udo of Aachen

See also:

• famous April Fool's Day jokes
• forgery
• internet humour

External links:

• Museum of Hoaxes (http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/)
• idiosyntactix's culture jamming page (http://www.sniggle.net/index.php/)