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Paranormal hoaxes

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The Blair Witch Project
1999 film directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez
Jersey Devil
also known as the Leeds Devil, legendary creature said to inhabit southern New Jersey, USA
Ectoplasm
paranormal phenomenon
Lobsang Rampa
English writer (1910-1981)
Cottingley Fairies
series of photographs
pyrokinesis
thumb|The medium Daniel Dunglas Home was an alleged practitioner of pyrokinesis.
Borley Rectory
building in Borley, Essex, England
Albert von Schrenck-Notzing
German parapsychologist & psychotherapist (1862-1929)
spirit photography
practice of claiming to capture supernatural entities in photos
Die Glocke
fictional Nazi technological warfare device
Enfield Poltergeist
claim of supernatural activity
Book of Dzyan
book
psychic surgery
medical fraud in which the practitioner creates the illusion of performing surgery
Bélmez Faces
Alleged paranormal phenomenon
Sampford Peverell
village and civil parish in Devon, United Kingdom
Helen Duncan
Scottish medium (1897–1956)
Kuthumi
Indian religious leader
Cock Lane ghost
a purported haunting that attracted mass public attention in 1762
Angels of Mons
World War I legend
materialization
alleged creation or appearance of matter from unknown sources
Well to Hell hoax
urban legend
William H. Mumler
American photographer (1832–1884)
human magnetism
People claimed to have ability to attract metallic and non-metallic things to their body.
thoughtography
thumb|right|220x220px|An alleged "thought photograph" obtained by Tomokichi Fukurai. Thoughtography, also called projected thermography, psychic photography, nengraphy, and nensha , is the claimed ability to "burn" images from one's mind onto surfaces such as photographic film by parapsychic means. While the term "thoughtography" has been in the English lexicon since 1913, the more recent term "projected thermography" is a neologism popularized in the 2002 American film The Ring, a remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film Ring.
Rosenheim Poltergeist
poltergeist reported in 1967 in Rosenheim, Germany
apport
paranormal transference of an article from one place to another, or an appearance of an article from an unknown source
Morgawr
sea serpent hoax
The Third Eye
work by Lobsang Rampa
Project Alpha
parapsychology hoax
Highgate Vampire
supposed supernatural activity at Highgate Cemetery in London in the 1970s.
Ted Serios
American claiming psychokinetic ability (1918–2006)
Pangboche Hand
purposed hand of a yeti found in Nepal
Dybbuk box
Wine box claimed to be haunted; subject of film: The Possession..