Hill initially believed the call was a hoax and referred the matter to the Brandeis University campus police who alerted the FBI.

Later, it was revealed to be a collaborative hoax that Capp and his longtime pal Saunders had cooked up together.

The wife of Scoop Beal, the editor of the Humboldt Standard, which later combined with the Humboldt Times, in which Genzoli's story had appeared, has stated that her husband was in on the hoax with Wallace.

Author Jerome Clark argues that the Jacko Affair, involving an 1884 newspaper report of an apelike creature captured in British Columbia, was a hoax.

Dyer and Whitton subsequently admitted it was a hoax after being confronted by Steve Kulls, executive director of Squatchdetective. com.

In August 2012 a man in Montana was killed by a car while perpetrating a Bigfoot hoax using a ghillie suit.

This was subsequently exposed as a hoax and has been replaced on the source web site with more accurate information.

Porpora said the claim that the tradition began in 1949 was a hoax in order to raise money and enhance the profile of the church.

A bronze plaque inscribed with Drake's claim to the new lands – Drake's Plate of Brass – fitting the description in his account, was discovered in Marin County, California but was later declared a hoax.

The Goodtimes Virus was a computer virus hoax that spread during the early years of the Internet's popularity.

No formal clarification of the hoax film was provided by the subsequent release, The Hollywood Hall of Shame.

Since then, and even in recent years, public spokesmen in Haiti as well as international academics and statesmen have denounced this event as the payment of an illegitimate debt, in several cases calling on the French government to repay it ( the French government has never been willing to repay it, though there was a hoax following the 2010 Haiti Earthquake involving a fake website purporting to offer reparation payment on behalf of the French Government ).

" " Hengist and Horsus " appear as antagonists in William Henry Ireland's play Vortigern and Rowena, which was touted as a newly-discovered work by William Shakespeare in 1796, but was soon revealed as a hoax.

He claims that he studied the photograph so often and from many different angles that he was able to discern objects that prove the photograph is not a hoax.

Alastair Boyd, one of the researchers who uncovered the hoax, argues that the Loch Ness Monster is real, and that although the famous photo was hoaxed, that does not mean that all the photos, eyewitness reports, and footage of the monster were as well.

Scottish politician Nicholas Fairbairn pointed out that the name was an anagram for " Monster hoax by Sir Peter S ".

In what is known as the Taxil hoax, he claimed that supposedly leading Freemason Albert Pike had addressed " The 23 Supreme Confederated Councils of the world " ( an invention of Taxil ), instructing them that Lucifer was God, and was in opposition to the evil god Adonai.

Some inconsistencies in Downey's account ( e. g., the swastika was painted in reverse, suggesting that Downey had drawn it himself in a mirror ), and the failure of the police to find supportive evidence, led many to suspect that the incident was a hoax and a plea for attention.

Milgram's unpublished analysis indicated that many subjects suspected that the experiment was a hoax, a finding that casts doubt on the veracity of his results.

He therefore concludes, contrary to Freeman, that Mead was never the victim of a hoax.

The book was later revealed to be based on a hoax originating with Pierre Plantard in the mid-20th century.

The Bogdanovs ' background in entertainment lent some plausibility to the idea that they were attempting a deliberate hoax, but Igor Bogdanov quickly denied the accusation.

Life lost credibility with many readers when it supported Clifford Irving, whose fraudulent autobiography of Howard Hughes was revealed as a hoax in January 1972.

Later, it was discovered that this was a hoax ; the program was suspended for a week, its audience never recovered and Gugu Liberato ( its host, once seen as Santos ' successor ) never regained his credibility.

It parodied The Sydney Morning Herald ( and was even printed on The Herald < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s own presses, adding to its credibility ) and led with a front-page hoax about the collapse of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Lane's credibility was questioned after a column published on 30 July 2006 in The Sunday Age wherein Lane fell for the Jesse Macbeth hoax.

Scientists discount the existence of Bigfoot and consider it to be a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax, rather than a living animal, because of the lack of physical evidence and the large numbers of creatures that would be necessary to maintain a breeding population

Scientists discount the existence of Bigfoot and consider it to be a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax, rather than a living animal, because of the lack of physical evidence and the large numbers of creatures that would be necessary to maintain a breeding population.

Heironimus says he did not publicly discuss his role in the hoax because he hoped to be repaid eventually and was afraid of being convicted of fraud had he confessed.

In the May 1996 issue of Lingua Franca, in the article " A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies ", Sokal revealed that his " Transgressing the Boundaries " was a hoax and concluded that Social Text " felt comfortable publishing an article on quantum physics without bothering to consult anyone knowledgeable in the subject " because of its ideological proclivities and editorial bias.

In Jacques Derrida's response, " Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious ," first published in Le Monde, Derrida writes that the Sokal hoax is rather " sad ," not only because Alan Sokal's name is now linked primarily to a hoax, not to science, but also because the chance to reflect seriously on these issues has been ruined for a broad public forum that deserves better.

Then, of course, her belief that her husband is having an affair wouldn't be based on that evidence, because she did not know it was there at all ; or, if she thought that the evidence were a hoax, then surely her belief couldn't be based on that evidence.

Alex Boese, the creator of the Museum of Hoaxes, states that the only distinction between them is the reaction of the public, because a fraud can be classified as a hoax when its method of acquiring financial gain creates a broad public impact or captures the imagination of the masses.

* August 22 Watkins meets with Lay, giving him a seven-page letter stating that Enron may be an " elaborate accounting hoax ," and advises him not to involve Vinson & Elkins, Enron's law firm, because of potential conflicts of interest.

The Piltdown man hoax succeeded so well because, at the time of its discovery, the scientific establishment believed that the large modern brain preceded the modern omnivorous diet, and the forgery provided exactly that evidence.

Bergen and McCarthy are sometimes credited with " saving the world " because, on the night of October 30, 1938, when Orson Welles performed his War of the Worlds radio play hoax that panicked many listeners, most of the American public had instead tuned in to Bergen and McCarthy on another station and never heard Welles ' play.

The captive astronauts quickly realize that something has gone badly wrong with the re-entry process, and that officials can never release them because doing so would automatically expose the hoax.

Barkun writes that " Alternative 3 was clearly a hoax — and not only because it was intended for broadcast on April Fools Day.

She was later asked to leave the group because of the hoax.

ABC did not retract the story ( the WABC TV producer insisted that Skaggs had said it was a hoax to avoid prosecution ), possibly because the piece had been nominated for an Emmy Award.

Inhofe often repeats his claim that human influenced climate change is a hoax and impossible because “ God ’ s still up there .” and that it is “ outrageous ” and arrogant for people to believe human beings are “ able to change what He is doing in the climate .”

When the hoax was debunked, it appeared to be a personal attack on Bush because of its timing and its listing Bush's IQ as exactly half that of Clinton's.

Perhaps because the perception of George W. Bush having low intelligence is common and had been cited by the media as well as by politicians, including a spokesperson for Tony Blair, the hoax report was widely taken to be true.

Some Norwegians claimed the stone was a Swedish hoax and there were similar Swedish accusations because the stone references a joint expedition of Norwegians and Swedes at a time when they were both ruled by the same king, after the Union of Kalmar.

Later, it was proved to be a hoax ( becoming suspect because Māori does not use the letters J, X or Z ).

In Jacques Derrida's response, " Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious ," first published in Le Monde, Derrida writes that the Sokal hoax is rather " sad ," not only because Alan Sokal's name is now linked primarily to a hoax, not to science, but also because the chance to reflect seriously on this issue has been ruined for a broad public forum that deserves better.