Time Traveler John Titor
From 1998 to 2001, a man claiming to be visiting our "world-line" on a mission from the year 2036 enthralled a corner of the nascent internet with his explanations of time travel, the world of the fut...
25 Touko 55min
Fake Anastasias
Anastasia Romanov inspired a play, an Academy Award-winning movie, and a Dana-and-Lizzie-loving animated feature. But the legend of the missing princess is stranger and more involved than a movie with...
11 Touko 1h 15min
The Gulf Breeze UFOtos
In one of the most famous and widely-reported UFO sightings of all time, a Florida man witnessed, photographed and even interacted with alien beings from another planet several times over the course o...
27 Huhti 59min
The Bristol Princess
A girl showed up at a town near Bristol in 1817 wearing a turban, and everyone went nuts. SOURCES:"The Caraboo Hoax," Margaret RussellJohn Matthew Gutch's narrativeEnglish Eccentrics, by Edith Sitwel...
13 Huhti 39min
April Fool's Day: Google, Spaghetti Trees and Sidd Finch
This episode of Hoax is no fun at all. April Fool's! For our (almost) April 1 episode, we explore the holiday's origins and some of the best pranks of the 20th and 21st centuries: Google's various exp...
30 Maalis 37min
Napoleon is Dead
Stockmarkets are now battlefields. An aide-de-camp arrived in Dover with the startling, thrilling news that Napoleon had been killed, and the British stock market behaved accordingly. The problem was,...
16 Maalis 1h 16min
Crop Circles
Messages from extraterrestrial visitors? Evidence of strange atmospheric conditions? No one knows where crop circles come from or what they mean. Except, we do know, but for believers, that's the star...
2 Maalis 1h 26min
Joice Heth
P.T. Barnum is famous to movie-going audiences as the charming 'Greatest Showman,' but the reality was far more complicated, and much darker. P.T. Barnum's very first foray into showbusiness was purch...
16 Helmi 48min
