Hoaxes and Cons
The fakes that fooled millions and the swindlers who pulled off the impossible, and how they were caught.
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Hoaxes That Fooled America
Bat-men on the moon, a stone giant, a runaway balloon, and other national fakes.
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Legendary Con Artists
A fake country, a fake heiress, a fake surgeon, and one fake legend.
More departments
- Unsolved MysteriesDisappearances, uncracked codes and vanished ships: cases that are still open, with what investigators actually know.
- Conspiracy Theories, Fact-CheckedThe ones that turned out to be true, the ones that didn't, and the documents that settle it.
- Strange HistoryRidiculous wars, accidental inventions and odd laws, with the myths separated from the record.
- Lost and FoundMissing treasure, lost cities and long-lost wrecks: what's still out there and what finally turned up.
- Folklore and LegendsCryptids, ghost towns and the stories Americans keep telling, checked against the evidence.
- Relics and ArtifactsSacred relics, out-of-place artifacts and ancient finds: what the objects are, how old they really are, and what the evidence says.
- Weird ScienceReal phenomena that sound invented, strange sounds from the deep, and which mysteries science has cracked.
- Disasters and Close CallsNear-misses that almost changed history, and the disasters someone saw coming.