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...oological hoax invented in 1934 as an echo of the 1904 Lake George Monster hoax. It was reported as "a strange creature with the head of a dragon and eyes ...p://www.csicop.org/sb/2004-12/i-files.html CSICOP: The Lake George Monster hoax]

...ter revealed that he and his friend Allistair Mitchell had perpetrated the hoax in order to promote a novel written by Mitchell. ...olleagues, but the Natural History Museum rejected it, suspecting it was a hoax.

==Hoax==

...the creature was a [[bigfoot]] or [[yeti]], while others contend it was a hoax. ...to how he obtained it. These statements led to criticism and charges of a hoax. Hansen reportedly claimed he had a real frozen creature and a replica, but

...for the Row. However, Bernard Heuvelmans and others felt this story was a hoax.

...thinks that the animal of 1954 was an otter, the monster of August 1957 a hoax, the beast of September 1957 possibly a pike and the 2003 eel actually a gr

...t the creature, and it took the bag in its mouth and ran off. Considered a hoax by the police force upon first inspection, officers later changed their min

== Email hoax ==

...e of incidents, many locals believed the 'ghost' to be nothing more than a hoax perpetrated by the family, but the Society of Psychical Research, and leadi

...authenticity of the animal, with critics contending the de Loys' Ape is a hoax and that the photograph shows only a posed spider monkey carcass, though cr ...der monkey. He says of the mystery surrounding the ape, "it is an outright hoax, and an obnoxious one at that, being a deliberate deception." [http://www.t

...f the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden. He deemed the tracks to be a hoax.[1] Prior to the Momo sightings, reports of similar creatures went back as

...ter was accepted there was little limit to the stories that developed. The hoax continued into the 1870s. The fact that government surveyors declared half ...etter written to President Brigham Young was printed which reactivated the hoax again. Wm. Budge, author of the letter, reported he and two brethren, Willi

...at his house, even though Sheperd eventually admitted that the Hodag was a hoax.

The hoax can be unequivocally documented to go back to at least the 1930s. For examp

...all abnormal for a primate, and therefore the sightings had to have been a hoax.

...ightings into the mid-1990s, before concluding that the Beast was either a hoax or myth and that the alleged sightings had been mistaken identifications of

...he name given to a reportedly captured alien in 1958 that appeared to be a hoax.

....st/artiklar_zuiyo_maru.html The Zuiyo Maru explanation is a basking shark hoax]

...r and "get bigger and bigger". Monstrous.com experts team believes it is a hoax.

...o reported that the image of the two lights was not caused by any paste-on hoax.[18] Later, the ropen was the subject of an episode of Destination Truth. H

...yptozoo-news/nahuelito-pix/ Cryptomundo: Nahuelito Photographed] (Possible Hoax)

...le of Man. Whether Gef was a poltergeist, a strange animal or cryptid or a hoax remains an open debate.

...1979 issue of People Magazine, William Weber wrote: "I know this book is a hoax. We created this horror story over many bottles of wine." This refers to a ...it is true. It's certainly not a hoax. It's real easy to call something a hoax. I wish it was. It's not." George Lutz registered the phrase The Amityville

...monster.jpg|thumb|250px|The famous "Surgeon's photo" (1934) of [[Nessie]] (hoax).]]

...daughters as causing the banging noises herself, creating a hoax within a hoax. However this later occurs when both girls are accounted for. Near the end

...empting to pervert the course of justice in response to the sending of the hoax letters and tape, and remanded in custody. On March 21, 2006 he was sentenc

...General Jim Mattox for sloppy police work and taking part in an extended "hoax". ...f murders, those with custody of Lucas did nothing to bring an end to this hoax," and "We have found information that would lead us to believe that some of

...que printed a letter from M. De La Condamine arguing that the report was a hoax spread by the English in order to camouflage their real motive in sending a

...k” – all the others are humps or disturbances. The image was revealed as a hoax in 1994. ...he original uncropped image have fostered further doubt. A year before the hoax was revealed, the makers of Discovery Communications's documentary Loch Nes

...noted that many unfamiliar animals, when first reported, were considered [[hoax]]es, delusions or misidentifications. The platypus, [[giant squid]] (and [[

...the stories of Bigfoot to be a combination of unsubstantiated folklore and hoax. This is due to current scientific knowledge plus the lack of bones or a bo ...suit for Roger Patterson's film, and obtained a complete confession of the hoax.)

...gions including Christianity. This theory originates with the famous Taxil hoax perpetrated by Léo Taxil, who had himself been expelled from Freemasonry w ...ealed for over a century, Pike's spurious address and other details of the hoax continue to be quoted by anti-masonic groups.

In the 19th century, P. T. Barnum displayed in his museum a taxidermal hoax called the ''Feejee (''sic'') Mermaid.'' Others have perpetrated similar ho

A blatant hoax version of the ''Necronomicon'', edited by George Hay, appeared in 1978 and

...ced the claims were true and that he was either the victim of an elaborate hoax, or the Spear of Destiny really did reside for a while in Antarctica and ma

...just before midnight, but there was no one to answer it. The next night, a hoax call sent Ronald Whittle on a wild goose chase to a false rendezvous.

There is a famous Yeti hoax, known as the snow walker film, created by Fox television network, in an at

...orshipped by Freemasons, a claim that apparently originated with the Taxil hoax. Lévi's Baphomet is clearly derived from the Tarot image of the [[Devil]].

...tor in Suffolk. For many years this incident was considered to have been a hoax, particularly by the hunting community, But in March 2006 a police report c

...e girls too young and too inexperienced to have been able to create such a hoax.

...And now that the phenomenon has a number of devoted followers [...] some [[hoax]]ers have probably entered the fray."

...sy to fool when they think that many occurrences are real and discount the hoax hypothesis from the outset. Even after witnessing first hand an agent throw

...s one. After the murders, police officials contended the letter had been a hoax by a local journalist. Eddowes' ear appears to have been nicked by the kill

...tter of April 24, 1978, was initially deemed authentic, but was declared a hoax less than three months later by three experts. In recent years, however, th

...ickert), later retracted the story and admitted to the press that it was a hoax. Variations of the theory involve the physician Sir William Gull, the artis