Category
page 1Hoaxes in England
Mary Toft
English medical hoaxer
Cottingley Fairies
series of photographs
Dear Boss letter
message received in 1888, which claims to have been written by the serial killer now known as Jack the Ripper
From Hell letter
Letter sent by serial killer Jack the Ripper
Dreadnought hoax
1910 practical joke by Horace de Vere Cole
Enfield Poltergeist
claim of supernatural activity
Cock Lane ghost
a purported haunting that attracted mass public attention in 1762
Berners Street Hoax
1810 practical joke by Theodore Hook in London
Highgate Vampire
supposed supernatural activity at Highgate Cemetery in London in the 1970s.
The Shed at Dulwich
hoax by journalist Oobah Butler