This article covers various hoaxletterwriters. Henry Root is the creation of writer William Donaldson who wrote to numerous public figures with unusual...
were created in one day in 1943 by conservative writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart in order to hoax the Angry Penguins, a modernist art and literary...
Hartigan wrote a letter to advice columnist Ann Landers asking for her help in publicizing the film's nonexistence. Entities to fall for the hoax in subsequent...
They say I'm a doctor now. ha ha Initially, the letter was considered to be just one of many hoax letters purporting to be from the murderer. However...
A hoax is a widely publicised falsehood so fashioned as to invite reflexive, unthinking acceptance by the greatest number of people of the most varied...
The "Great Moon Hoax", also known as the "Great Moon Hoax of 1835" was a series of six articles published in The Sun (a New York newspaper), beginning...
students and sent with the letter as part of a hoax. Lusk himself believed that this was the case and did not report the letter until he was urged to do...
The following is a list of hoaxes: These types of hoaxes are semi-comical or private "sting operations" intended to expose people. They usually encourage...
conservative and right-wing politicians and media personalities promoted the hoax in response to several school districts enacting protections for transgender...
The Dreadnought hoax was a practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole in 1910. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the battleship...
Detective Inspector that the Wearside Jack evidence was a hoax (as the writer of the letter made no reference to this crime) and submitted a report to...
result". In an open but anonymous letter, eleven of Boghossian's colleagues at Portland State University wrote that the hoaxes "violat[ed] acceptable norms...
paper." Ten Portland State University professors signed an open letter saying the hoax was not comparable to the Sokal affair, the latter taking place...
discovered to contain a hoaxletter, purportedly by Betjeman, but actually containing an acrostic insulting Wilson. The letter had been sent to Wilson...
This is a list of hoaxes related to religion. Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ – 1908 book by American preacher Levi H. Dowling who claimed to have...
The 1971 Qantas bomb hoax was an extortion and robbery committed by Peter Macari and Raymond Poynting on 26 May 1971, where Macari, under the alias of...
Archaeologists has condemned the so-called "Bosnian pyramids" as a "cruel hoax"; along with various other scholars they are also concerned about damage...
congratulate him for "imaginative effort". Solway convinced him to join the hoax. The fame of Karavis spread. There were reports of international conferences...
totaling $130,105.15, of overtime authorities expended investigating the hoax. In November 2019, Smollett filed a countersuit against the city of Chicago...
Cutler, a signer of the letter blasting the author of the miscegenation hoax. He apologized for not responding sooner to the letter as it "came at a moment...
1949), Australian politician H. Rochester Sneath (c. 1900–?), British hoaxletterwriter Peter Sneath (1923–2011), British microbiologist Samuel B. Sneath...
that Allingham himself never existed. Three decades later the elaborate hoax was revealed to have been perpetrated by British astronomer Patrick Moore...
contaminate dog food and put it in public. On 5 December 1988, after a number of hoax calls were made to police, Essex Police were told that contaminated Pedigree...
2019). "John Banville believes 'man with a grudge' behind Nobel prize hoax – Writer is sanguine about the incident, saying: 'for 40 minutes I was a Nobel...
forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work, which is either deliberately...