In an astounding breakthrough, scientists at the International University of West Carolina discovered a longstanding case of mistaken identity: The female skeleton known throughout the world as “Lucy” really belonged to “Suzie”! Three paleontologists, George Kratos, Chiamaka Achieng Afolayan, and Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, were digging around in Ethiopia. One Tuesday, while listening to “Wake […]
Hoaxes
Millions Shocked, Disillusioned, To Discover Real Name of “Trader Joe”
It has only been a few hours since the news was revealed to the world, but already deep chaotic currents of shocked disbelief and tumultuous waves of horror and despair are shattering stock markets, breaking up homes, and dividing communities. It was, in fact, our own intrepid (though, in this case, perhaps somewhat imprudent) Ryan […]
Susanna Shakespeare’s Diary a Hoax
In 2006, Michael J. Ortiz published Swan Town: The Secret Journal of Susanna Shakespeare, which supposedly was found within the walls of a house in Stratford, England. Like many good works of art, Swan Town, purported to be a 16th-century diary of Shakespeare’s eldest daughter, has since been exposed as a sham, an entirely fictitious […]