Science The blurry sonar blob tabloids turned into a sunken UFO Ellsworth Toohey

Technology The hoaxter who claimed he could fit a whole movie in one kilobyte Ellsworth Toohey

books The fan fiction that rewrote Harry Potter as an evangelical tract Ellsworth Toohey

Games Dwile flonking, the ancient pub sport invented in 1966 Ellsworth Toohey

Science The ancient spark plug and other "out-of-place artifacts" Ellsworth Toohey

History In 1872 a ship was found drifting, empty. The 1913 "solution" was absurd. Ellsworth Toohey

hoaxes John Titor, the internet's most famous time traveler, vanished in 2001 Ellsworth Toohey

books Carlos Castaneda faked an anthropology classic, then built a cult Ellsworth Toohey

History In 1916 a con man ran a car on water and fleeced Henry Ford Ellsworth Toohey

History An expedition spent years looking for an Arctic island that didn't exist Ellsworth Toohey

History In 1835 a New York paper put bat-men and unicorns on the moon Ellsworth Toohey

Space Two Italian brothers claimed to have recorded dying Soviet cosmonauts that Moscow erased from history Ellsworth Toohey

Science In 1997, a 14-year-old convinced 43 classmates to ban "dihydrogen monoxide" Ellsworth Toohey

hoaxes Epstein documents not a hoax, Leavitt says, but the "narrative" is Jason Weisberger

bad ideas Michigan man calls in bomb threat to delay his flight to LA (the plan backfires) Carla Sinclair

Nintendo Ben Drowned was the ultimate unauthorized Nintendo content Rob Beschizza

hoaxes Photos that fooled the world Rob Beschizza

law 5 charged in "Catch a Predator" hoax that lured innocent man to filmed assault Rob Beschizza

india Bomb hoaxes bring India's aviation industry to a halt Rob Beschizza

photos How a 1937 hoax captured the imagination with giant grasshoppers Popkin