1930s hoaxes

Merit-Ptah ("Beloved of Ptah") was thought to be a female chief physician of the king's court during the Second Dynasty of Egypt, . She was purportedly referred as such on an inscription left on her grave at Saqqara by her son.

thumb|George Scott's sketch of Gef the talking mongoose, from 1936 thumb|A 1932 article that suggested trickery and ventriloquism from Voirrey Irving was the cause of the Gef phenomena Gef ( ), also referred to as the Talking Mongoose or the Dalby Spook, was an allegedly talking mongoose which inhabited a farmhouse owned by the Irving family, located at Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man. The story was given extensive coverage by the tabloid press in Britain in the early 1930s. The Irvings' claims gained the attention of parapsychologists and ghost hunters, such as Harry

Ingagi is a 1930 pre-Code pseudo-documentary exploitation film directed by William S. Campbell. It purports to be a documentary about "Sir Hubert Winstead" of London on an expedition to the Belgian Congo and depicts a tribe of gorilla-worshipping women encountered by the explorer.

forged plaque allegedly placed by Francis Drake when landing in California in 1579

Antimsemitic canard falsely attributed to Benjamin Franklin