HOAXES

OSA-006THE MAX HEADROOM INCIDENTOPEN CASEAmerica's most famous broadcast hijacking OSA-026THE MOON LANDING HOAXDEBUNKED382 kg of moon rock, and a Soviet audience that never cried fake OSA-030THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENTDEBUNKEDThe destroyer escort that vanished, from a port it never visited OSA-032CROP CIRCLESDEBUNKEDMessages in the wheat, signed, eventually, by the authors OSA-033THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZIONDEBUNKEDThe most consequential proven forgery in history OSA-034MAJESTIC 12DEBUNKEDThe secret UFO committee that existed only on film OSA-074PIZZAGATEDEBUNKEDA misread email, a nonexistent basement, an armed man OSA-075QANONDEBUNKEDThousands of predictions, zero hits OSA-077PAUL IS DEADDEBUNKEDThe lookalike theory that outlived its author's confession OSA-078THE AMITYVILLE HORRORDEBUNKEDA real massacre, then a haunting invented over wine OSA-080THE TITANIC SWITCHDEBUNKEDThe insurance scam undone by a hull number OSA-109PILTDOWN MANDEBUNKEDA human skull, an orangutan jaw, and forty years of citations OSA-110THE BEALE CIPHERSOPEN CASETwo unsolved ciphers said to locate a vault of gold in Virginia OSA-120THE McMARTIN PRESCHOOL TRIALDEBUNKEDSecret tunnels, satanic rituals, 321 counts, zero convictions OSA-146THE BELGIAN UFO WAVECONTESTEDAn air force that investigated openly, and a triangle nobody identified OSA-148THE BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITEDEBUNKEDA 13,000-year-old alien satellite assembled from five separate incidents OSA-194THE TRAVIS WALTON CASECONTESTEDA logging crew fled, a man was missing for five days, and he returned OSA-199SLENDER MANDEBUNKEDA fictional creature with a documented author, and a real attempted murder