A PARANORMAL WEB SITE WHERE REAL GHOSTS WILL COME AND HAUNT YOU!
Have you heard the new urban legend yet?
By Laine Duckworth
There is of late a new haunted placce and loctaion that everyone in the world can access. The only really haunted web site in the world where you can interact with a real ghost. Many say only a handfull of the best paranormal experts really know where it is.
You have probally read about or heard about from word of mouth. Or maybe you googled it in a real haunted world wide web site search.
"THE ONLY REALLY REAL HAUNTED WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET WITH REAL GHOSTS THAT WILL HAUNT YOU IF YOU VISIT THIS WEB SITE"
The actual most haunted web site ever is filled with great real ghost pictures that only the most well noted of indiviuals can enter. The site also has information that would blow your mind if you read it saw it or just happened on to the page by mistake.
The real ghost that haunt this site will actually come out through your screen and manifest itself. If you click on friendly ghost then you might just get a ghost that will tell you if your boyfirnd loves you forever or is cheating on you with your best friend.
All this really makes me wonder how gulible people who explore and research the paranomla really are. We all know this is a real paranormal inspired hoax!
But if you want to start your search for the worlds most haunted website start here now!
During certain paranormal events and at particular times of year such as Halloween, real hoaxes are too often actually perpetrated by many people and groups. The most famous of these is certainly April Fool's Day, which is open season for pranks and dubious paranomal related announcements.
A New Zealand tradition is the capping stunt, wherein university students perpetrate a hoax upon an unsuspecting population. The acts are traditionally executed near graduation (the "capping").
Many Spanish-speaking countries have Innocent's Day, on December 28, to make "innocent" a person with jokes and hoaxes. The origin for the pranking is derived from the Catholic feast day Day of the Holy Innocents for the infants slaughtered by King Herod at the time of Jesus' birth.
A paranormal inspired hoax is a deliberate attempt to deceive or trick the paranomral community or audience into believing, or accepting, that something is real, when the hoaxster knows it is not; or that something is true, when it is false. In an instance of a hoax, an object or event is not what it appears to be or what it is claimed to be; for example, "snake oil," which was sold by 19th century traveling salesmen in the United States as a cure-all. A hoax differs from a magic show in that the audience is unaware of being deceived - whereas in watching a magician perform a magical act, the audience expects to be tricked.
It is possible to perpetrate a hoax by making only true statements using unfamiliar wording or context. Unlike a fraud or con (which is usually aimed at a single victim and are made for illicit financial or material gain), a paranormal hoax is often perpetrated as a practical joke, to cause embarrassment, or to provoke social change by making people aware of something. Many hoaxes are motivated by a desire to satirize or educate by exposing the credulity of the public and the media or the absurdity of the target. For instance, the hoaxes of James Randi poke fun at believers in the paranormal and alternative medicine. The many hoaxes of Alan Abel and Joey Skaggs satirize people's willingness to believe the media. Political hoaxes are sometimes motivated by the desire to ridicule or besmirch opposing politicians or political institutions, often before elections. Journalistic scandals overlap with hoaxes to some extent.
Some governments have been known to perpetrate hoaxes to assist them with unpopular aims such as going to war (e.g., the Ems Telegram, or the Dodgy Dossier). In fact, there is often a mixture of outright hoax, and suppression and management of information to give the desired impression. In wartime, rumours abound; some may be deliberate hoaxes.
The word hoax is said to have come from the common magic incantation hocus pocus. "Hocus pocus", in turn, is commonly believed to be a distortion of "hoc est corpus" ("this is the body") from the Latin Mass.
Hoaxes vary widely in their processes of creation, propagation, and entrenchment over time. These processes frequently one or more of the following:
* Hoaxes perpetrated on occasions when their initiation is considered socially appropriate (e.g., April Fools' Day)
* Apocryphal claims that originate as a hoax, gain widespread belief among members of a culture or organization, become entrenched as persons who believe it repeat it in good faith to others, and (often) continue to command that belief after the hoax's originators have died or departed
* Hoaxes that are not affirmatively propagated but rather indirectly "invited," as when persons fabricate evidence consistent with a false claim but do not advocate that claim as a conclusion, instead hoping that observers desiring to draw their own conclusions will reach an erroneous one and spread it in the belief that it is true (e.g., the use of disinformation in war and counterintelligence)
* Hoaxes formed by making minor or gradually increasing changes to a warning or other claim widely circulated for legitimate purposes
* Hoaxes perpetrated by "scare tactics" appealing to the audience's subjectively rational belief that the expected cost of not believing the hoax (the cost if its assertions are true times the likelihood of their truth) outweighs the expected cost of believing the hoax (cost if false times likelihood of falsity) (e.g., claims that a non-malicious but unfamiliar program on one's computer is in fact a virus)
* Urban legends
* Humbugs
The essential characteristic of a hoax is that it convey information that is, although false, at least somewhat credible. The subjective intent of hoax perpetrators varies, with the intent determining the content the perpetrator chooses and/or the content affecting the perpetrator's intent regarding whom to deceive: A person seeking to deceive the public as a whole may propagate a hoax consisting entirely of objectively credible claims, often bolstering it by including claims that are true or have a basis in fact. A person seeking to deceive only a specific person or set of persons (as by means of a a practical joke) will likely select a premise that is subjectively plausible in the eyes of the victim(s), treating whether others will fall for the hoax as a secondary concern. Treated as such, the hoax's objective or intersubjective plausibility or implausibility can cut both ways: On one hand, a person may construct a hoax out of only credible information in order to prevent sympathetic outsiders from "catching on" and informing the victim in advance; on the other, he or she may include implausible information in order to heighten the victim's eventual embarrassment at having "fallen for" the hoax (along with the enjoyment observers feel when watching the victim being deceived).
Some sets of claims popularly labeled hoaxes are better categorized as allegory, fable, satire, or parody: If a person describes a situation or event with the intent to illustrate a principle but without the desire that his audience believe his assertions' literal meaning to be true, the assertions likely form an allegory or a fable. (Note that these claims may eventually develop into an apocryphal hoax or an urban legend if their literal meaning gains belief as they are passed from person to person.) If a person makes statements that have some basis in fact but are in some respects patently absurd, with the intent that the audience notice the similarity between the patent absurdities in the statements and absurdities latent in statements widely accepted in the real world, the person engages in satire. Parody does not require any basis in fact or the intent that any part of it be accepted; rather, its essence is the partial but not total imitation of the thing parodied, along with the elicitation of humor from the simultaneous occurrence of similarities and differences between the parody and its subject.
List of hoaxes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Proven hoaxes
These are some claims that have been revealed to be deliberate public hoaxes. This list does not include hoax articles published on or around April 1, a long list of which can be found in the "April Fool's Day" article.
A through D
- George Adamski's claims to have gone into space in UFOs. His book was based on his earlier book of fiction.
- Ray Santilli's Alien autopsy
- Avirginsplea.com, a website that was part of a viral marketing experiment (2006).
- The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, a book about purported sexual enslavement of a nun
- Bananadine, a fictional drug made from bananas
- Bathtub hoax, an imaginary history of the bathtub published by H.L. Mencken
- Johann Beringer's lying stones
- The Big Donor Show, a hoax reality television program in the Netherlands about a woman donating her kidneys to one of three people requiring a transplantation
- Biggest Drawing in the World, Erik Nordenankar's "drawing" of a self-portrait over the entire world using a GPS receiver
- Jayson Blair's plagiarized and fabricated articles for the New York Times
- Berners Street Hoax in 1810
- Steve Brodie, who did not jump from the Brooklyn Bridge
- The Cardiff Giant, of which P. T. Barnum made up a replica when he could not obtain the "genuine" hoax
- Andrew Carlssin, a nonexistent "time travelling" stock broker arrested for SEC violations.
- Thomas Chatterton's "medieval" poetry
- The Cottingley Fairies
- Crop circles. In 1991, two Englishmen (Doug Bower and Dave Chorley) claimed credit for the entire phenomenon, though it's widely accepted that other, "copycat", circles were manufactured by other hoaxers.
- David Weiss a non existing person that was used by the Jerusalem post as a source.
- Death in the Air: The War Diary and Photographs of a Flying Corps Pilot, a book containing World War I Aerial combat photos that were actually models superimposed on aerial backgrounds.
- Disappearing blonde gene
- Document 12-571-3570 supposedly establishing that sex had taken place during a space mission
- Drake's Plate of Brass, accepted for 40 years as the actual plate Francis Drake posted upon visiting California in 1579
- The Donation of Constantine
- Hanxin, industrious and scientific hoax of a forgery Digital signal processor
- George Dupre, who claimed to have worked for SO
E through K
- The Education of Little Tree, widely acclaimed autobiography by Asa Earl Carter, later revealed to be fictional.
- Albert Einstein quotation supporting Astrology (Hamel 2007)
- Emulex hoax, a stock manipulation scheme
- Ern Malley, a fictitious poet
- Essjay controversy, a false claim of academic credentials, starting on Wikipedia and continued into a New Yorker interview
- Fiji mermaid, the supposed remains of a half fish half human hybrid.
- The Flying Bigfoot of Florida
- Spiritualist Arthur Ford's claim of psychic contact with Harry Houdini.
- Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood 1939-1948, Binjamin Wilkomirski's memoirs, which were supposed to be a faithful account of his childhood in a Nazi death camp
- Furry trout
- The "Genesis" messenger of the Publius Enigma
- Stephen Glass's falsified articles for The New Republic
- The Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814
- The Hand that Signed the Paper, purportedly based on the experiences of "Helen Demidenko", actually Helen Darville
- Recordings allegedly made by the pianist Joyce Hatto
- Joice Heth, African-American slave exhibited by P. T. Barnum as George Washington's nurse.
- Histoire de l'Inquisition en France, the 1829 book by Etienne Leon de Lamonthe-Langan
- The Hitler Diaries
- Holocaust teaching controversy of 2007
- The Horn Papers
- The Hundredth Monkey, a supposed zoological behavioral phenomenon
- Idaho's name
- Il Bambino, a sculpture created by Michelangelo but sold as a classic Greek statue.
- Clifford Irving's biography of Howard Hughes
- The Jackalope, supposedly a form of rabbit with antlers.
- Jdbgmgr.exe virus hoax
- Anthony Godby Johnson, a nonexistent author of a hoax autobiography A Rock and A Hard Place.
- Judiel Nieva, A transexual who claimed to have begun seeing visions of the blessed Virgin Mary in 1987 when she was only 10 years old.
L through Q
- The Lady Hope Story, a claim of Charles Darwin's deathbed conversion to Christianity
- Lobsang Rampa
- Enric Marco, who presented himself as a victim of the extermination camp of Mauthausen until uncovered in 2005.
- Mars hoax, a yearly hoax, started in 2003, falsely claiming that at a certain date Mars will look as large as the full moon
- The Masked Marauders, a non-existent "super group" supposedly consisting of Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. Their supposed "bootleg album" was listed in a mock review in the 18 October 1969 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine. An album entitled The Masked Marauders was shortly released, but the sound-alike musicians were later exposed to be members of The Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band. [1]
- Memorial Heroes of Chernobyl - fake chess tournament
- Michelle Remembers, a memoir of Satanic child abuse
- The Moles' "We Are The Moles", a 1967 single promoted with not-so-subtle hints[who?] that it might be The Beatles recording under a pseudonym. It was actually recorded by Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - a 1960's UK pop group, members of whom later formed the progressive rock band Gentle Giant.
- Mon cher Mustapha letter, a letter supposedly written by a Muslim immigrant in France, designed to stir up anti-immigrant sentiment
- My 61 Memorable Games, a fake version of My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fisher
- The Necronomicon, a fictitious occult book quoted by writer H. P. Lovecraft in many of his stories.
- Ompax spatuloides Castelnau, a fish "discovered" in 1872 in Australia, made of a mullet, an eel and the head of a platypus.
- The Works of Ossian, "translated" by James MacPherson
- "Our First Time", an early popularized Internet hoax.
- Edward Owens (hoax), perpetrated on the English-language Wikipedia in 2008 by a class at George Mason University.
- The shoot-outs of Palisade, Nevada
- Paul Is Dead (Paul McCartney death hoax)
- The perpetual motion engines built by John Ernst Worrell Keely and Charles Redheffer
- Pickled dragon
- Piltdown Man, paraded as a missing link between humans and apes. It was unmasked as a hoax in 1953 after four decades of being accepted by the majority of scientists.
- Platinum Weird, deliberate hoax by David A. Stewart and Kara DioGuardi about a non-existing band from 1974 promoted using false advertising.
- Pope Joan - the one and only supposed female pope.
- Princess Caraboo, aka Mary Baker
- The Priory of Sion, a made-up secret society that plays a prominent role in the DaVinci Code
- Progesterex, a date rape drug.
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a book instrumental in the surge of antisemitism during the last hundred years.
- George Psalmanazar and his "Formosa"
- Psychic surgery
- Q33 NY, an Internet hoax based on the 9/11 event
R though Z
- A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century
- Rejecting Jane chronicles the rejection by publishing houses of the opening chapters of Jane Austen novels submitted to them under a pseudonym by British writer David Lassman.
- The Report From Iron Mountain, a literary hoax claiming that the government had concluded that peacetime was not in the economy's best interest.
- Rosie Ruiz, who cheated in the Boston Marathon
- The Skvader, a form of winged hare supposedly indigenous to Sweden.
- Songs of Bilitis, supposed ancient Greek poems "discovered" by Pierre Louÿs
- Space Cadets, a 2005 TV programme by Channel 4, in which contestants were fooled into thinking that they were training at a Russian space academy to become space tourists.
- The "R. E. Straith" letter sent to George Adamski by James W. Moseley (Moseley & Pflock 2002:124-27,331-32).
- The "Surgeon's Photo" of the Loch Ness Monster
- James Vicary's Subliminal advertising (Boese 2002:127-8)
- Tamara Rand prediction of the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, which was actually made after the fact (Randi 1982:329).
- Thatchergate Tapes, a fake conversation with which the punk rock band Crass fooled the governments of the USA and UK.
- Robert Tilton's "prayer cloths"
- Mary Toft, rabbit mother
- Kazuo Uzuki, April Fools Joke where Topps issued baseball card of non-existent person
- Toothing, an invented fad about people using Bluetooth phones to arrange sexual encounters
- Tourist guy, photo of a tourist at the top of the World Trade Center building on 9/11 with a plane about to crash in the background
- Trodmore Racecourse, a fictitious Cornish race meeting.
- The Turk, a chess-playing automaton that actually contained a person.
- Tuxissa computer virus hoax.
- Benjamin Vanderford's beheading video
- Vortigern and Rowena, a work allegedly by William Shakespeare that was actually by William Henry Ireland, collector of books and forger of Shakespeareana
- World Jump Day
- Laurel Rose Willson's claims to be a survivor of Satanic ritual abuse (as Lauren Stratford), and of the Holocaust (as Laura Grabowski)
- Yellowcake forgery, the false documents suggesting Iraq's Saddam Hussein was to purchase uranium from Niger
- Zzxjoanw, a fictitious word that fooled logologists for 70 years
- Frank Scully's 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers, which claimed that aliens from a crashed flying saucer were being held
Hoax accusations
Proven hoaxes of exposure
"Proven hoaxes of exposure" are semi-comical or private sting operations. They usually encourage people to act foolishly or credulously by falling for patent nonsense that the hoaxer deliberately presents as reality. See also culture jamming.
Possible hoaxes
Practical joke hoaxes
Known pranksters, scam artists and impostors
- Frank Abagnale, professional impostor and check forger
- Alan Abel, US professional hoaxer
- Jim Bakker, Evangelist
- P. T. Barnum, US showman known for his sensational hoaxes
- Sacha Baron Cohen, British comedian and media prankster - a.k.a. Ali G and Borat Sagdiyev
- Pablo Belmonte, Spanish video editor known for his Nintendo-related hoax videos (Nintendo On, Super Mario Galaxy DS, etc.)
- Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian writer who often included references to nonexistent books and authors in his works
- Horace de Vere Cole, British aristocrat
- Jeanne Dixon, a self-proclaimed psychic.
- Benjamin Franklin, American patriot, scientist and publisher
- Rémi Gaillard, modern French prankster with a wide internet presence
- William Randolph Hearst, a newspaper tycoon known as "the father of yellow journalism".
- Danny Hellman, NY cartoonist sued for impersonating Ted Rall in e-mails
- Benny Hinn, faith healer
- Elmyr de Hory, art forger
- Brian G. Hughes, US banker
- Reginald Jones, British professor
- Andy Kaufman, US comedian and inter-gender wrestling champion
- M. Lamar Keene, Self-exposed fraudulent medium
- J. Z. Knight, trance channeller who claims to contact an entity called Ramtha
- Victor Lustig, professional con artist
- Jim Moran, publicist, actor and TV panellist
- Chris Morris, British comedian and actor of Brass Eye, The Day Today
- Frederick Emerson Peters, professional impostor and check forger
- Charles Ponzi, originator of the Ponzi Scheme
- Peter Popoff, Faith healer
- George Psalmanazar, European writer
- James Randi, professional stage magician, hoaxer and hoax debunker
- James Reavis, professional forger and impostor
- Harry Reichenbach, Hollywood publicist
- Joey Skaggs, US media prankster
- Soapy Smith, Jefferson Randolph Smith, infamous 19th century confidence man
- Edward Askew Sothern, British actor
- Jonathan Swift, British humorist and writer
- Robert Tilton, Evangelist
- Hugh Troy, US painter
- Dick Tuck, US political prankster who harassed Richard Nixon.
- Wilhelm Voigt, the "Captain of Köpenick"
- Mike Warnke, Evangelist and supposed former Satanic High Priest
- Joseph Weil, professional scam artist
- Stanley Clifford Weyman, professional impostor
- Yes Men, culture-jamming pranksters
Journalistic hoaxes
Deliberate hoaxes, or journalistic fraud, that drew widespread attention include:
- Jayson Blair, reporter for The New York Times
- Janet Cooke, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her fictitious Washington Post story about an eight-year-old heroin addict named Jimmy
- Stephen Glass, reporter for The New Republic
- The Great Moon Hoax of 1835
- Great Wall of China hoax of 1899
- Jack Kelley, longtime USA Today correspondent
- David Lassman who wrote the 2007 'Rejecting Jane' article, which chronicled Jane Austen's rejection by modern day publishers.
- The New York Zoo hoax of 1874
- Nik Cohn's New York magazine article, "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", which was the source material for the movie Saturday Night Fever, and which Cohn admitted decades later had been fiction, not reportage.
- The Flemish Secession hoax of 2006[1]
- Dark Side of the Moon (documentary) - this French mockumentary "proving" that the Apollo moon landings were hoaxes is itself an admitted hoax
- Konspiration 58 about the soccer world cup of 1958.
- David Manning, a ficitious film critic created by Sony in order to place good quotes on Columbia Pictures' film advertising.
- Fuckart & Pimp a hoax art exhibition at London's Decima gallery, which purported to be the show of a female artist having sex with clients to consummate the sale of her paintings, created a world-wide media scandal but was later revealed to be a hoax
See also
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