This book is a collection of some of the most engaging and remarkable pranks and hoaxes of the last 300 years. The book contains nearly 100 stories of trickery, gullibility and idiocy, described in detail, and a further 150 short anecdotes of strange-but-not-true incidents, phenomena and events. Step right up and enter The Museum of Hoaxes where you can: Marvel at such curiosities as Bigfoot, the Cardiff Giant and the Jackalope…Wonder at the mystery of crop ...