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.

* 1912 – The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is announced by Charles Dawson.

The phony college's equally nonexistent football team had its scores carried by major newspapers including The New York Times before the hoax was discovered.

It is discovered eventually in the episode, however, that Bart's abduction was merely a hoax, distressing Wiggum greatly as he finally had done some great good but at merely the wrong time.

Another reference to a classified group called " MJ-12 " was discovered in 1980, but was later claimed to be a hoax.

When the platypus was first discovered by Europeans in 1798, and a pelt and sketch were sent to the United Kingdom, some thought the animal to be a hoax.

In a series of articles in the Japanese magazine Shukan Bunshun published on January 25, February 1 and March 15, 2001, the magazine alleged that the stone tools discovered at the Hijiridaki cave site ( 聖嶽洞窟遺跡 ) in Ōita Prefecture had also been forgeries, and indicated that Mitsuo Kagawa, a professor at Beppu University, had been involved in that hoax.

A report of the phenomenon, in an 1884 article by the fictitious Egerton Yorrick Davis in The Philadelphia Medical News, was later discovered to be a hoax perpetrated by Sir William Osler.

Most historians regard the map and accompanying narrative as a hoax, perpetrated by the younger Zeno to make a retroactive claim for Venice as having discovered the New World before Christopher Columbus.

During the 1960s, as part of a hoax claiming the existence of a medieval secret society, a set of documents of dubious authenticity, the Dossiers Secrets, was discovered in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France ( BNF ).

It was the site of the William C. " Stub " Newell farm where the " Cardiff Giant ", a famous hoax, was " discovered " on October 16, 1869.

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 was not discovered to be a hoax for several weeks after its publication and, even then, the newspaper did not issue a retraction.

It was later discovered that the site was a hoax originated by Nick Woomer, then a 16-year-old from the Michigan suburbs whose knowledge of gangs came from movies, gangsta rap, and Alex Alonso's website on Los Angeles street gangs.

It was later discovered that Wilson had been the victim of a hoax.

The Kinderhook plates, " discovered " in 1843, were another hoax, consisting of material planted by a contemporary in Native American mounds.

After the ' hoax ' was discovered, several journals rejected previously accepted poems.

It was not until after the 1986 overthrow of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos that it was discovered that the 26 Tasaday " cavemen " had been ordinary people going along with a hoax.

A clue that indicated that the Ice Borer story was a hoax can be found in the name of the biologist who discovered the animal, " Aprile Pazzo " (" April Fool " in Italian ).

When the press discovered Gurie's birth in Flatbush, Goldwyn then claimed " the greatest hoax in movie mystery.

Even after the hoax was discovered, the government did little to address the problem.

Lusk is also mentioned in a letter dated 17 September 1888, reportedly discovered among archive materials in the late 20th century ; however, most experts dismiss this as a modern hoax.

It was later discovered to contain a hoax letter, purportedly by Betjeman, but actually containing an acrostic insulting Wilson.