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Hoax
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Hoax
Balloon Hoax, The
news story in 1844, reporting the transatlantic crossing of a balloon with eight passengers. [Am. Lit.: The Balloon Hoax in Poe]
Piltdown man
missing link turned out to be orangutan. [Br. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 46; Time, October 13, 1978, 82]


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But, reading about the inventions of hoaxers did leave one with a certain wonderment that colors a subsequent immersion in Showtime's Sightings.
It has its share of vandals, criminals, hucksters and hoaxers who prey on the unsuspecting or ill-informed.
How these crop circles were created in the dead of night at the height of the summer growing season remains a puzzle, though hoaxers have claimed responsibility for some of them.
 
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