Comments on: 4 of History’s Greatest Hoaxes

By: germ

germ — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:53:58 +0000

I agree with Jess. there’s no intention of tricking the listener when Orson Welles made the â€œWar of the Worldsâ€.

It’s like if some people came to “District 9″ screening late and thought there really was alien landing in South Africa. not the maker’s hoax, just some people’s stupidity.

By: KayTee

KayTee — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:32:42 +0000

why is everyone ragging on Jess?

S/he was just getting back at wiseass for putting down the writer of this article!

By: chris

chris — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:31:32 +0000

I got some ocean front property for sale in Arizona. A really great deal. If youâ€™re not interested in that my brother is currently selling the Eiffel Tower. All offers considered.

By: Sara in AL

Sara in AL — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:10:12 +0000

I remember reading about #3 in an Uncle
John’s Bathroom reader-the good thing

is- supposedly- you can cure a headache

with bannana peels. It does NOT involve

scraping the inside of the peel.

By: Ginny

Ginny — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:46:18 +0000

My mom lived in Queens and listened to the original War of the Worlds broadcast. When I asked her if it scared her, she said she knew very well that it was a radio show, that in fact it was part of a series that she listened to every week. I’m not sure if all the shows in the series were sci-fi or not, but she said that anybody who was a regular listener had no problem telling that it was just a radio play.

By: Ronald

Ronald — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:43:53 +0000

The “Constitutum Donatio Constantini” has to be one of the biggest and longest enduring. From Wikipedia:
“Purportedly issued by the fourth century Roman Emperor Constantine I, the Donation grants Pope Sylvester I and his successors, as inheritors of St. Peter, dominion over the city of Rome, Italy, and the entire Western Roman Empire, while Constantine would retain imperial authority in the Eastern Roman Empire from his new imperial capital of Constantinople. The text claims that the Donation was Constantine’s gift to Sylvester for instructing him in the Christian faith, baptizing him and miraculously curing him of leprosy.”

“In 754, Pope Stephen II crossed the Alps to anoint Pepin king, thereby enabling the Carolingian family to supplant the old Merovingian royal line. In return for Stephen’s support, Pepin apparently gave the Pope the lands in Italy which the Lombards had taken from the Byzantine Empire. These lands would become the Papal States and would be the basis of the Papacy’s secular power for the next eleven centuries.”

“nserted among the twelfth-century compilation known as the Decretum Gratiani, this document continued to be used by medieval popes to bolster their territorial and secular power in Italy. It was widely accepted as authentic, although the Emperor Otto III did denounce the document as a forgery. The poet Dante Alighieri lamented it as the root of papal worldliness in his Divine Comedy. It was not until the mid 15th-century, with the revival of Classical scholarship and textual critique, the Church had begun to realize that the document could not possibly be genuine.”

By: steamboat

steamboat — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:26:53 +0000

What about Vista ?

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:32:08 +0000

Try again:

google.com/search?q=Transgressing+the+Boundaries%3A+Toward+a+Transformative+Hermeneutics+of+Quantum+Physics&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

By: Deadguy

Deadguy — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:22:11 +0000

Google has nothing on â€œTransgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Physics,â€. You sure this hoax isn’t a hoax?

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:28:19 +0000

I know its not as cheerful a hoax as these, but what about the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion?”

There are people out there today, hundreds of years later still believing it…I would think that would make this list.