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Website
Museum of Hoaxes
OwnerAlex Boese
URLhoaxes.org
Launched1997

The Museum of Hoaxes is a website created by Alex Boese in 1997 in San Diego, California, as a resource for reporting and discussing hoaxes and urban legends, both past and present.

In 2004, PC Magazine included the site as one of the "Top 100 Sites You Didn't Know You Couldn't Live Without", and Sci Fi Weekly named it "site of the week" for the week beginning 7 February 2007.

Boese has published two books on hoaxes: Museum of Hoaxes and Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. A third book by Boese, Elephants on Acid, focuses on unusual scientific experiments, with the follow-up Electrified Sheep published in 2011. His latest book Psychedelic Apes is about the weirdest theories in science and history was published in 2019.

Notable hoaxes covered

References

  1. Emery, David, "The Bunk Stops Here: An interview with Alex Boese, curator of the Museum of Hoaxes", San Francisco Chronicle, December 19, 2002 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006).
  2. Berman, A. S., "Museum-of-Hoaxes highlights online gullibility", USA Today, August 16, 2001 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006).
  3. Terdiman, Daniel, "Wry Hoaxes Enliven the World of Web Diarists", The New York Times, July 29, 2004 (URL last accessed May 23, 2008).
  4. Shafer, Jack (29 March 2007). "The April Fools' Day Defense Kit". Slate. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
  5. "Museum of Hoaxes" (advertiser profile), Federated Media Publishing, URL last accessed November 1, 2006.
  6. "The Museum of Hoaxes" Archived 2009-03-18 at the Wayback Machine, PC Magazine, April 20, 2004 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006).
  7. Dellamonica, A. M., "Museum of Hoaxes" Archived 2009-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Sci Fi Weekly, February 7, 2007 (URL last accessed November 17, 2007).
  8. E.P. Dutton, 2002, ISBN 0-525-94678-0
  9. Harvest Books, 2006, ISBN 0-15-603083-7
  10. Harvest Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-15-603135-6
  11. Boxtree, 2011, ISBN 9781250031709
  12. Macmillan, 2019, ISBN 978-1509860524
  13. "90 Day Jane". Museum of Hoaxes. Retrieved 2022-11-11.

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