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3D model Narrated

“Museum of Hoaxes”

Stories6

Pro early

The Gordon Holmes Loch Ness video

May 26, 2007 · Layby on the A82, near Drumnadrochit, Loch Ness, Scotland

United Kingdom

Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources

22Thinly documented

Peter MacNab's Loch Ness photograph at Urquhart Castle

July 29, 1955 · Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness, Inverness-shire, Scotland

United Kingdom

Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources · 4 photos

22Thinly documented

Pro early

The Moore's Beach Sea Monster Carcass, Santa Cruz (1925)

c. 1925 · Moore's Beach (now Natural Bridges State Beach), Santa Cruz, California

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources · 5 photos

49Partially documented

Pro early

The Winsted Wild Man

c. 1895 · Between Winsted and Colebrook, Litchfield County, Connecticut

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources

35Partially documented

Pro early

The Silver Lake Serpent

July 13, 1855 · Silver Lake, near Perry, Wyoming County, New York

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources

17Thinly documented

Pro early

The Brig Daphne Sea Serpent Hoax

September 20, 1848 · Gulf of Guinea, off Gabon and the Republic of Congo (lat. 4° 11′ S., long. 10° 15′ E.)

International waters

Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources

2Thinly documented

Names2

Museum of Hoaxes Organisation · 6 stories
A sceptical voice turns up again and again in the archive's monster stories.
Alex Boese Person · 4 stories
Alex Boese writes for the Museum of Hoaxes, and his name surfaces whenever a Loch Ness image is put to the test.

Documents13 · see all

Senate Resolution 8648 (PDF) Document

Washington State Legislature· 2017-04-18· 3 pages

…of Davidson and Brown,21 Harold Dahl publicly claimed his sighting at Maury Island was a hoax;22…
proj b1 FOIA release

Office of the Secretary of Defense· 12 pages

…Prepared in co- operation with the American Museum of Natural History. · JUNIOR SCIENCE BOOK OF STARS, by CROSBY…
Project Blue Book case file (combined PDF) Document

US Air Force, hosted by NICAP· 40 pages

…During the garden of the museum, by the greatest New Zealand artist, the 1913 original creative work of…
Unidentified flying objects: hearing before the Committee on Armed Forces of the House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session, April 5, 1966 ... Hearing transcript

U.S. House Committee on Armed Services· 1966-04-05· 88 pages

…Prepared in cooperation with the American Museum of NaturalHistory. "Junior Science Book of Stars," by Crosby, Phoebe. An…
Black Vault compilation, pp. 91-93 Document

The Black Vault· 134 pages

…Prepared in eo- opention witb the American Museum of Natural m.tory. · JUNIOR SCIENCE BOOK OF STARS, by…
Behavior Whatever Happened to UFO's? FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2001-03-12· 9 pages

…Mead is Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at…

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