The Fiji mermaid (also Feejee mermaid) was an object comprising the torso and head of a juvenile monkey sewn to the back half of a fish. It was a common feature of sideshows, where it…
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Crop circle
A crop circle or crop formation is a pattern created by flattening a crop, usually a cereal. The term was first coined in the early 1980s by Colin Andrews. Crop circles have been described as…
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The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901–1988) and Frances Griffiths (1907–1986), two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. In 1917, when the first…
Read More Cottingley FairiesCalaveras Skull
The Calaveras Skull was a human skull found by miners in Calaveras County, California, which was purported to prove that humans, mastodons, and elephants had coexisted in California. It was later revealed to be a…
Read More Calaveras SkullAlien autopsy
The alien autopsy is a 17-minute black and white film depicting a medical examination or autopsy. It was released in 1995 by London-based entrepreneur Ray Santilli. He presented it as an authentic autopsy on the…
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The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological hoax in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilized remains of a previously unknown early human. In 2016, the results of an extensive scientific review established that amateur…
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The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous hoaxes in American history. It was a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m) purported “petrified man” uncovered on October 16, 1869, by workers digging a well behind the barn…
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Min Min light
Min Min is an unexplained light phenomenon that has often been reported in outback Australia. Stories about the lights can be found in Aboriginal myths predating European settlement and have since become part of wider…
Read More Min Min light10 Bizarre Means Of Conception Found In Mythology And Folklore
Mythology and folklore have long been a means of vicarious wish fulfillment. A woman who struggled to conceive long ago might have taken comfort in these stories of miraculous pregnancies, no matter how strange or…
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10 Crazy Conspiracy Theories About Celebrity Deaths
Modern celebrities can’t go anywhere without the tabloid press publishing all sorts of crazy rumors. Should they be photographed with an unknown person, they must be having an affair. Should they look a little disheveled,…
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