The Museum of Hoaxes

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 circles, the impact of the War of the Worlds radio broadcast and Sydney’s bizarre iceberg…See the Cottingsley fairies, the Stone Age Tasaday tribe and Snowball the monster cat with your own eyes…Or learn from famous hoaxers such as Edgar Allan Poe, PT Barnun and Mark Twain. Would these hoaxes fool you? Take the Gullibility Test and find out.Formatted along the lines of the Darwin Awards books, The Museum of Hoaxes 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. It also includes short profiles of famous perpetrators and con artists, an examination of the development and evolution of April fool’s Day, and black and white illustrations throughout.