19th-century hoaxes

Prussian telegram and press release that incited the French Empire to start the Franco-Prussian War

human skull stone carvings made of clear quartz, claimed to be pre-Columbian Mesoamerican

fake newspaper article series

Rune-covered stone slab unearthed in 1898 in Kensington, Minnesota

science fiction short story by Edgar Allan Poe

nineteenth century US hoax

possibly hoax manuscript

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fake mummified body of a half-mammal half-fish

political forgery

1810 practical joke by Theodore Hook in London

newspaper article written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844, originally presented as a true story, about Monck Mason's trip across the Atlantic Ocean in 3 days in a gas balloon; later revealed as a hoax

1890s hoax of exposure by Léo Taxil

chess-playing "pseudo-automaton" built in 1876

American photographer (1832–1884)

ghost town in Eureka County, Nevada,, United States

African American enslaved person and sideshow performer

Legal case that captivated Victorian England in the 1860s and 1870s

human skull found in Calaveras County

inscribed stone tablet

1840 hoax in Binche, Belgium

poem

purported Lenape historical narrative

1899 faked newspaper story

purported 19th century hoax

manuscript carrying Biblical verses written in Paleo-Hebrew script

antiquities dealer (1830–1884)

19th-century hoax manuscript

fish species hoax