Museum of Hoaxes

Museum of Hoaxes
Owner	Alex Boese
URL	hoaxes.org
Launched	1997

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.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

In 2004, PC Magazine included the site as one of the "Top 100 Sites You Didn't Know You Couldn't Live Without",^[5]^[6] and Sci Fi Weekly named it "site of the week" for the week beginning 7 February 2007.^[7]

Boese has published two books on hoaxes: Museum of Hoaxes^[8] and Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S.^[9] A third book by Boese, Elephants on Acid,^[10] focuses on unusual scientific experiments, with the follow-up Electrified Sheep published in 2011.^[11] His latest book Psychedelic Apes is about the weirdest theories in science and history was published in 2019.^[12]

Notable hoaxes covered

90 Day Jane^[13]

References

^ 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).
^ Berman, A. S., "Museum-of-Hoaxes highlights online gullibility", USA Today, August 16, 2001 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006).
^ Terdiman, Daniel, "Wry Hoaxes Enliven the World of Web Diarists", The New York Times, July 29, 2004 (URL last accessed May 23, 2008).
^ Shafer, Jack (29 March 2007). "The April Fools' Day Defense Kit". Slate. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
^ "Museum of Hoaxes" (advertiser profile), Federated Media Publishing, URL last accessed November 1, 2006.
^ "The Museum of Hoaxes" Archived 2009-03-18 at the Wayback Machine, PC Magazine, April 20, 2004 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006).
^ 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).
^ E.P. Dutton, 2002, ISBN 0-525-94678-0
^ Harvest Books, 2006, ISBN 0-15-603083-7
^ Harvest Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-15-603135-6
^ Boxtree, 2011, ISBN 9781250031709
^ Macmillan, 2019, ISBN 978-1509860524
^ "90 Day Jane". Museum of Hoaxes. Retrieved 2022-11-11.

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[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).

[ShaferKit-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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