Hoaxes

The man who sold the Eiffel Tower. Lustig started out his career as a conman by convincing people to buy a machine that would produce $100 bills – the only

Chess playing turk! The Turk The Turk was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in 1770. The elaborate machine was designed to look like a Turkish-dressed robot that could defeat even the

A Scotsman with an unlikely name, MacGregor made his fortune not by selling real things that didn’t belong to him, but imaginary things that didn’t belong to anyone. In the

10. Mysterious Deafening Sound over Jodhpur In December of 2012, a deafening sound was heard by the residents of Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Initial the rumors corresponded to “sonic boom” from a military aircraft,

"Piltdown Man" might be the most famous scientific hoax of all time. This skull, which was originally "found" by collector Charles Dawson, fooled most of the world's paleontologists into believing

one smart horse! The horse that could add and read!   Clever Hans was a remarkable horse capable of complex intellectual tasks such as arithmetic, reading, spelling, telling time and even understanding

One of the biggest hoaxes, It was posted in a blogger site in 2009 and created a huge sensation: wedding of Rajiv Gandhi and Miss Antonia Albina Maino. Part 1 :

The Giant Egg Hoax of 1986? On April 13, 1986, at 5:15 AM, Douglas Arling of Warwick, Rhode Island went out to the chicken coop in his yard and checked

This lie re­sulted from a classic case of wanting to please the critics. Han van Meegeren was an artist who felt underappreciated and thought he could trick art experts into