Clifford Irving

Clifford Irving

male, 79 years old
Literary hoaxes, Cornell University, Weltschmerz, Hoaxes, Pottsy, The Losers
Clifford Michael Irving (born November 5, 1930) is an American writer, best known for an "authorized autobiography" of Howard Hughes that turned...

Charles Stuart

male, deceased (1990)
Charles "Chuck" Stuart, Murdered pregnant women, convicted of murder, mission hill, Furrier, Brigham and Women's Hospital…Hoaxes
Charles "Chuck" Stuart (ca. 1960-January 4, 1990) was a Boston man who murdered his pregnant wife and inflamed racial tension by blaming a...
Stephen Glass

Stephen Glass

male, 37 years old
Jewish person, University of Pennsylvania, Hoaxes, The Daily Pennsylvanian, Journalists accused of fabrication or plagiarism, Georgetown University Law Center
Stephen Glass (born 1972) was an American reporter for "The New Republic", who was fired for basing his articles on fake quotes, sources, and...

Brian Atene

male, 46 years old
Performance hoaxes, Internet memes, Juilliard School alumni, American Internet personality, Internet personality, Hoaxes
Brian Atene (b?. August 16, 1963) is a part-fictional former student at the Juilliard School of performing arts. His spoof video became an Internet...
Joice Heth

Joice Heth

female, deceased (1836)
African American, slave, slavery, American, p.t. barnum, Victim of human rights abuses…Hoaxes
Joice Heth was an African American slave. Toward the end of her life, in 1835, blind and almost completely paralyzed (she could talk, and had some...
Peter Popoff

Peter Popoff

male, 63 years old
miracle, religious scandal, Religious scandals, laying on of hands, miracles, Hoaxes
Peter Popoff (born 1946) is a German-born U.S. televangelist who has spent most of his adult life claiming to treat physical ailments through the...
Rosie Ruiz

Rosie Ruiz

female, 56 years old
long-distance runner, 26.2-mile course, Cuban American, Hoaxes, Havana, Cuba, Cuban-American
Rosie Ruiz Vivas (born 1953, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban American runner who on April 21, 1980 ostensibly came in as the first place female competitor...
Bridey Murphy

Bridey Murphy

female
from Wisconsin, Popular psychology, Hoaxes, Virginia Tighe
Bridey Murphy is the name of a woman that U.S. housewife Virginia Tighe (April 27, 1923 - July 12, 1995) claimed to have been in her previous life.

Janet Cooke

female, 55 years old
Washington DC, Journalistic hoaxes, Hoaxes, From Kalamazoo, Michigan, From Toledo, Ohio, Journalists accused of fabrication or plagiarism
Janet Cooke (born July 23 1954) was an American journalist who became infamous when she won a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated story that she wrote...
Mike Warnke

Mike Warnke

male, 63 years old
American military, religious scandal, hoax, vietnam war, Christian, From Tennessee…Hoaxes
Michael Alfred "Mike" Warnke (born November 19, 1946, in Evansville, Indiana) is a Christian evangelist and comedian who became one of evangelical...