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• Museum of Hoaxes Organisation · 6 stories

  A sceptical voice turns up again and again in the archive's monster stories.

• Center for UFO Studies Organisation · 60 stories

  J.

• Karl Shuker Person · 60 stories

  A zoologist and cryptozoologist, Karl Shuker turns up again and again in this archive.

• Brian Dunning Person · 54 stories

  Brian Dunning, host of Skeptoid, turns up again and again in these archives, usually once the witnesses have spoken.

• Skeptoid Programme · 47 stories

  Brian Dunning's Skeptoid often gives the sceptical reading in this archive.

• Fortean Times Organisation · 39 stories

  Fortean Times is a magazine.

• Kevin Randle Person · 39 stories

  A researcher, and a former Army helicopter pilot.

• Philip J. Klass Person · 32 stories

  A sceptic.

• Richard Hall Person · 28 stories

  Richard Hall worked for NICAP.

• FBI Organisation · 21 stories

  The FBI turns up again and again in the archive's case files.

• Naish Person · 18 stories

  Darren Naish appears across the archive as the zoologist who looks hard at the pictures.

• Jenny Randles Person · 17 stories

  A British ufologist, Jenny Randles turns up across the archive's home-grown cases as an author, an investigator and a sceptical voice.

Documents176 · see all

• Blue Book cases, June to December 1947 Document
  NICAP· 3 pages· 3 pages mention it
  • p. 1 …PLANE UNIDENTIFIED Insufficient Data Insufficient Date Balloon Cluster Other (UNRELIABLE Balloon Astro (SUN DOG) Astro (METEOR) Other (HOAX) (INFO ONLY)
  • p. 2 …Other (Fireworks) )Insufficient Data )Other (Hoax) Insufficient Data Other (Psychological Balloon Balloon Other (Hoax) Insufficient Data Astro (Meteor) B) Other…
• California Committee for Saucer Investigation FOIA release
  Central Intelligence Agency· 1953-01-01· 3 pages· 2 pages mention it
  • p. 1 …Riedel indicated that they are going to execute a planned "hoax" over the Los Angeles area, in order to test…
  • p. 2 …Riedel indicated that they are going to execute a planned "hoax" over the Los Angeles area, in order to test…
• UFO Hypothesis and Survival Questions FOIA release
  National Security Agency· 7 pages· 2 pages mention it
  • p. 1 …ALL UFO's ARE HOAXES: From the time when hoaxes were first noted in history, they were characterized by infrequency…
  • p. 2 # SECRET indications and expectations, are indeed hoaxes - hoaxes of a world wide dimension - hoaxes of increasing frequency, then a human…
• Govt.'s Super-Secret Security Agency Warns: Take UFOs Seriously or Be Prepared for Sneak Invasion by Space Aliens FOIA release
  National Security Agency· 2 pages· 1 page mentions it
  • p. 1 …now indicates rather strongly that UFOs are not all hoaxes." declares the dramatic report. "And if anything, rather than diminishing…
• Untitled (Contact with Leon Davidson Was Person-To-Person, He Is Doing an Article for a Space Magazine and Wants Translation of the Message and the Emitting Station Proving the Space Message to Be a Hoax) FOIA release
  Central Intelligence Agency· 1957-12-20· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
  • p. 1 …HE WANTS THE TRANSLATION OF THE MESSAGE AND THE EMITTING STATION PROVING THE SPACE MESSAGE TO BE A HOAX, OR…
• MAXW-PBB2-244 Document
  Project Blue Book (hosted by NICAP)· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
  • p. 1 …Other (Hoax) Mil and Civ Insufficient Data Griffin (MODEL) Other (Psychological) Wise Balloon Saito Balloon Rhodes (PHOTO) Other (Hoax) Civilian…

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Videos92 · see all

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Video1662

The Tedworth Drummer: Haunting or Hoax?

From The Drummer of Tedworth: the Mompesson House Poltergeist (1662)

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Video1762

The Cock Lane Ghost: A Haunting Hoax in 18th Century London

From The Cock Lane Ghost ("Scratching Fanny") and the Johnson Committee

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Video1762

18th century London's most famous hoax: The Cock Lane Poltergeist

From The Cock Lane Ghost ("Scratching Fanny") and the Johnson Committee

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Video1917

De Loys' Ape: A Eugenics Inspired Hoax?

From De Loys's Ape (Ameranthropoides loysi), Tarra River, Venezuela

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Video1921

Today in History, Sept. 16: 'Monster of Walgren Lake' hoax hits Nebraska newspaper

From The Walgren Lake Monster: Alkali Lake, Hay Springs, Nebraska

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Video1933

Is This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?

From Cadborosaurus: The Langley and Kemp Sightings off Victoria, 1932 and 1933

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Video1934

Monstrum: Is This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?

From Jorda: the 25-foot 'infant' Cadborosaurus of Jordan River

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Video1934

From Myth to Hoax | Episode 38: The Surgeon's Photo, Robert Wilson

From Loch Ness Monster: the Surgeon's Photograph

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