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Lake Monster Tweets For Tourists

Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Loch Ness Monster, Minneapolis Parks Foundation, Weird Creatures, Cameron Gainer, Video, Weird Minnesota, Lake Monsters, Minnesota, Hoax, Minneapolis, Minne the Monster, Lake Monster, Animals in the News, Slidepollajax, Weird News News

This is one lake monster that knows a thing or two about self-promotion -- it uses Twitter and Facebook to let people know where it's going to show up...

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Cruel Hoax Costs Family Of Missing Woman Life Savings, Home (EXCLUSIVE)

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Goldia Coldon, Video, Cruelty, Hoaxes, Hoax, Crime, Crime News, Phoenix Coldon Missing, Slidewide, Missing Persons, Slidepollajax, Stacey English, Phoenix Coldon, Crime News

A promising lead about the whereabouts of Phoenix Coldon turned out to be a cruel hoax, causing the missing Missouri woman's family additional pain, t...

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Levitating Woman On 'Fact Or Faked: Paranormal Files'

Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Paranormal, Reality TV, Canada Tv, Video, Hoax, Levitation, Paranormal Activity, Fact or Faked, Syfy, Tv Replay, TV News

On "Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files" (Tue., 9 p.m. ET on Syfy), the team examined footage of a woman seemingly experiencing a paranormal levitation. ...

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Is The Bear Saved Man From Mountain Lion Story A Hoax?

HuffingtonPost.com | Andy Campbell | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Animal Attack, Bob Biggs, California Department of Fish and Game, Robert Biggs Mountain Lion, Hoax, Bear Saves Man From Mountain Lion Hoax, Man Saved by Bear, Robert Biggs, Mountain Lion Attack, Poll, Animals in the News, Bear Saves Man From Mountain Lion, Man Saved From Mountain Lion, Bear vs Mountain Lion, Attacked While Hiking, California Weird, Bears Saves Man, Bear Attack, Weird News News

California wildlife officials produced some scathing lab results while investigating a man's incredible story that a black bear saved him from a mount...

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VIDEO: Why Does Everyone Hate The TSA?

Christopher Elliott | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Pat-Down, Video, Military, Hoax, Kids, Tsa, Airport Security, TSA Security, Travel News

Before 9/11, American airport screeners had a reputation for being poorly-educated and incompetent, but otherwise harmless. Now they have a reputation for being poorly-educated and incompetent, but they wear badges and call themselves "officers" and they aren't so harmless anymore.

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Dutch 'Birdman' Comes Clean About Controversial Video

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Birdman Video, Wings, Video, Human Flying, Human Wings, Wii, Human Flying Hoax, Hoax, Jarno Smeets, Man Flying Video, Man Flying Hoax, Birdman, Science News

By: Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer Published: 03/22/2012 04:42 PM EDT on Lifes Little Mysteries A Dutch man named Jarno ...

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Elvis Impersonator Blames Bomb And Ricin Scare On Diabetes

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Standoff, Wmd, Video, Michael Conley, Dumb Crime, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Hoax, Swat, Florida Crime, America's Best Value Inn, Michael Hughes, Ricin, Crime News

You ain't nothin' but a diabetic bomb hoaxer, cryin' to the cops. Michael Conley, a 64-year-old Elvis impersonator, allegedly locked himself inside...

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Two Cry Weapon Of Mass Destruction At Motel

Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Standoff, Michael Conley, Video, Wmd, Dumb Crime, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Hoax, Swat, America's Best Value Inn, Florida Crime, Michael Hughes, Ricin, Crime News

Two Florida men were charged with serious felonies after they threatened cops with a weapon of mass destruction -- all because they didn't want to get...

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Ky School Officials Say Bedbugs At School A Hoax

AP | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Weird Kentucky, Video, Animals in the News, Weird Photos & Videos, Bedbugs at School, Hoax, Bedbugs Hoax, Weird News News

AUGUSTA, Ky. -- Augusta Independent School Principal Robin Kelsch had enough to worry about with the flu. Kelsch didn't need a student's report of bed...

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Are the "Strange Sounds" Videos a Hoax?

Jason Boyett | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Internet Memes, Amarillo, Hoax, Aliens, Youtube, Strange Sounds, Parenting, 2012 Apocalypse, Kiev, Strange-Sounds-Video, Alien Videos, Ufo Videos, Video, Weird News News

The enormous online apocalypse/conspiracy community has been all a-flutter lately due to the glut of "strange sounds" or "weird noises" videos being uploaded in recent weeks.

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Mom Who Faked Kidnapping, Took Daughter To Disney, Faces Sentencing

AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Video, Bonnie Sweeten Sentenced, Kidnapping, Hoax, Pennsylvania Crime, Bonnie Sweeten, Disney World Kidnapping Hoax, Bonnie Sweeten Kidnapping Hoax, Crime News

PHILADELPHIA — A suburban Philadelphia mother should expect significant prison time for swindling her boss and a relative of as much as $1 milli...

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Fake Artist's Painting Sells For Big Bucks

Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Fake Artist, Hoax, David Bowie, Nat Tate, Gore Vidal, William Boyd, Sotheby's, An American Artist, Fake Art, Arts News

It's not easy to make a name for yourself as an artist these days, and doubly so if you're not a real person. But there seems to have been no trouble ...

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WATCH: Brazil ET Video Claims To Be The Real Deal (Don't Bet Your Spaceship On It)

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Et, Fx Models, Weird Brazil, Video, All News Web, Hoax, Marc Dantonio, Unexplained Phenomena, Mufon, Mike Cohen, Extraterrestrial, Alien, Mutual Ufo Network, Weird News News

An extraterrestrial is seen in a Brazilian rainforest and arches its back conveniently right in front of a group of children being filmed. Well, we...

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Watch: Report Linking IQ To Browser Choice Likely A Hoax

Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Internet, Video, Browser, Hoax, Computers, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Technology News, Web Browsing, Media, Internet Explorer Low Iq Hoax, Studies, Web Browsers, Technology News

A recent study that claimed that people who used the Internet Explorer web browser had lower IQs has been exposed as a hoax. ...

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Let us not allow 'a Gay Girl in Damascus' to discredit all blogging

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Syria, A Gay Girl in Damascus, Tom MacMaster, Twitter, Macmaster, Hoax, Bloggers, Media, Media Ethics, Facebook, Journalism, Social Media, Damascus, Amina Arraf, Youtube, Citizen Journalism, New Media, Arab Revolutions, Media News

It was clearly the moment traditionalists and new-media sceptics were eagerly anticipating; for as soon as it emerged that the blog known as 'A Gay Gi...

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Scottish Terrier Wins 2011 World Cold Nose Contest

Robert Weller | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Ingman Bergman, Amina, Dog Cold Nose, Hoax, Judge Crater, Comedy News

For the first time in the history of the world contest for coldest dog nose, a Scottish terrier has won. The dog, Gruff, recorded a nasal temperatu...

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Why Was the Week-Long Amina Hoax Possible?

Robert Weller | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Amina, Internet, Twitter, Hoax, Media News

It was predictable that hoaxes would proliferate in the new electronic journalism. Almost everyday some celebrity dies a Twitter death. The Amina story may set a record, as coverage seems to have increased as it became more widely known it was untrue.

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Lesbian Syrian Blogger A Hoax

AP | Posted 08.12.2011

Read More: Tom MacMaster, Damascus, A-Gay-Girl-in-Damascus, Kidnapping, Hoax, Internet Hoaxes, A Gay Girl in Damascus, Syria, Syrian Blogger, World News

CAIRO — A new entry Sunday in a blog purportedly by a lesbian Syrian-American living in Damascus asserted that the entire saga was a hoax, suppo...

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Will Texas Psychic Meet Balloon Boy Fate?

Turnstyle | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Texas, Law, Richard Heene, Mass Grave, Houston, Hoax, Psychic, Angel, Balloon Boy, Fbi, U.S., Media News

Originally published on Turnstylenews.com, a digital information service surfacing emerging stories in news, entertainment, art and culture; powered ...

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VIDEO: Photo Of Chopin On His Deathbed Discovered?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exhibition, Louis-Auguste Bisson, Frédéric Chopin, Video, Hoax, Poland, Photograph, Pianist, Photographer, Scotland, Wladyslaw Zuchowski, Negative, Composer, Paris, Arts News

Photographer and collector, Wladyslaw Zuchowski, claims he is in possession of a daguerreotype image of Frédéric François Chopin in his death bed i...

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Andrew Wakefield's Vaccination and Autism Study: Allegations of Fraud With Financial Motivations

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Investigations, False, Fixed, Hoax, Children, Cedars Sinai, Health, Los Angeles, Andrew Wakefield, Autism Study, British Medical Journal, Vaccinations, Vaccines, Dr. Braunstein, Los Angeles News

I don't know how many different ways the medical community can say this: Childhood vaccinations do not cause autism. As any competent researcher will tell you, the facts speak for themselves.

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Alien Vaporware

Seth Shostak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aliens, Ufo, Invasion, Hoax, Seti, Alien Hoax, SETI Institute, Technology News

According to a story posted at Examiner, scientists have found three objects the size of Delaware entering the solar system. This is clearly a hoax. But these tales are more than a nuisance -- there's a certain amount of damage done by crying wolf.

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On the Hoax of the Climate Change Hoax

Jake Whitney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scientific Consensus, Ipcc, James Inhofe, Hoax, Climate Change, Joseph Romm, Climate Change Skeptics, Climategate, Global Warming, Green News

Americans are now about evenly split on whether the threat of global warming is exaggerated and whether scientists agree on its causes and dangers. This in the face of clear scientific consensus.

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6 Year Old Got Book Deal?

publishingperspectives.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Six Year Old, The Sun, Vanity-Press, Hoax, Fake Book Deal, Leo Hunter, Daily Telegraph, Strategic Book Publishing, Daily Mirror, Kid Writes Book, Me and My Best Friend, Books News

• A late August news story about a six-year-old boy who was allegedly given a 23-book deal caught the attention of numerous global news outlets and ...

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'Apple's Legal Guy Came To My House To Pick Up the New iPhone': Jason Chen

The Adam Carolla Show | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teresa Strasser, Iphone, Adam Carolla, Hoax, Gizmodo.com, Apple, Jason Chen, Apple-Leak, Technology News

Gizmodo.com editor Jason Chen, swears this whole iPhone thing isn't just an elaborate publicity stunt orchestrated by Apple, but we're asking the hard questions today.

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