The American Association of Hoaxed Anomalies
Dedicated to purging the paranormal industrial complex of hoaxes and frauds.

Piltdown Plot
Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history.

1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast
Wavs of the famous Orson Welles & The Mercury Theatre On-The-Air radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds

Spud Server
The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC.

Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of Hoaxes
Discusses a number of scientific and medical hoaxes, including Mary Toft and the Rabbit Babies (about which he authored a book). Includes links and images.

Net Hoax Hall of Fame
C|Net lampoons net pranksters and gullible netizens.

Museum of Hoaxes
Extensive collection of history's most famous hoaxes and April Fool's pranks. Listed by date and category. Includes bibliographic references.

James Randi Educational Foundation
Magician and skeptic James Randi debunks psychics, medical frauds, televangelists, and others. Offers a million dollar reward for proof of occult, psychic or supernatural powers.

Tracking the White Salamander
Online Book telling the story of Mark Hoffman who forged Mormon documents and was convicted of murder

Joey Skaggs
Homepage of Joey Skaggs: hoaxer, socio-political satirist, media activist, and culture jammer. Includes an interesting retrospective of his many hoaxes.

The Hoax Files
Assorted collection of hoaxes, including sports hoaxes and art forgeries

Skeptic's Dictionary: Frauds and Hoaxes
Discussion of 22 hoaxes, including Cardiff Giant, crop circles, and the Philadelphia Experiment

MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery
The MIT Gallery of Hacks (Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People). Hoaxes and pranks perpetrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

CSICOP:Strange Hoaxes That Endure
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: article that discusses 10 hoaxes, including the Roswell Incident, Cottingley Fairies, Amityville Horror, and psychic surgery.

History Buff : "Hoaxes in Journalism" Articles
Offers six articles on hoaxes, including petrification hoaxes and the day they sawed off manhattan.

Art and UFO
A study about the alleged UFOs in renaissance paintings. The "strange flying objects" someone find in ancient art are only sacred art symbols, not UFOs.

Cassiopaea
Bogdanovs affaire: Or, Has Physics been bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? Discussion and correspondence.

Piltdown Man
Piltdown man was one of the most famous hoaxes in science. Covers the history of the hoax, its reception by the paleontological community, how the hoax was executed, its exposure, myths and misconceptions, and theories about the perpetrator.

The Mothman Investigation
Investigation reveals that the mothman was actually a Red-shouldered Hawk.

April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes
National Geographic News has compiled a listing of some of the greatest hoaxes in history.

Bibliography of Hoaxes
Bibliography of books about hoaxes.