WILD, WEIRD
HISTORICAL HOAXES
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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING SUGGESTIONS
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Lagerfeld, Natalie. “How an Alien Autopsy Hoax Captured the World’s Imagination for a Decade”. TIME. 24 June 2016. Accessed 12 January 2023.
https://time.com/4376871/alien-autopsy-hoax-history/
Nickell, Joe. “The Story Behind the ‘Alien Autopsy’ Hoax”. LIVESCIENCE. Updated 27 May, 2021. Accessed 23 January 2023. https://www.livescience.com/742-story-alien-autopsy-hoax.html
“Alien Autopsy NFT Drop: Authenticated by the CIA, Reserve $1 Million on Rarible UPDATED”. GLOBE NEWS WIRE. 26 May 2021. Accessed 23 January 2023. https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2021/05/27/2236970/0/en/Alien-Autopsy-NFT-Drop-Authenticated-by-the-CIA-Reserve-1-Million-on-Rarible-UPDATED.html
Ciaccia, Chris “Single frame from ‘alien autopsy film recorded in aftermath of 1947 UFO crash in Roswell is being sold as an NFT – with an opening bid of $1 MILLION”. Daily Mail Updated 31 May 2021. Accessed 12 January 2023. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9636873/Controversial-1947-alien-autopsy-film-sold-NFT.html
“The Cardiff Giant”. Farmers Museum. Accessed 12 January 2023. https://www.farmersmuseum.org/cardiff-giant/
Eschner, Kat “The Cardiff Giant Was Just a Big Hoax”. Smithsonian 16 October 2017. Accessed 12 January 2023. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cardiff-giant-was-just-big-hoax-180965274/
Alexander, Dave “The Cardiff Giant – ‘A Sucker Born Every Minute’”. Legends Of America. Updated February 2020. Accessed 12 January 2023. https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ny-cardiffgiant/
“A Fossil Giant – Singular Discovery Near Syracuse”. National Republican Newspaper, 20 October 1869. Accessed via Newspapers.com 12 January 2023. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68876844/a-fossil-giantsingular-discovery/
“The Great Moon Hoax” is published in the “New York Sun”. HISTORY.com. Updated 24 August 2020. Accessed 12 January 2023. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-moon-hoax
Zielinski, Sarah. “The Great Moon Hoax Was Simply a Sign of Its Time” Smithsonian Magazine 2 July 2015. Accessed 12 January 2023. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/great-moon-hoax-was-simply-sign-its-time-180955761/
Young, Kevin “Moon Shot: Race, A Hoax, And The Birth of Fake News”. The New Yorker. 21 October 2017. Accessed 12 January 2023. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/moon-shot-race-a-hoax-and-the-birth-of-fake-news
Brownfield, Troy. “The Great Moon Hoax of 1835”. Saturday Evening Post August 26, 2020. Accessed 12 January 2023. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/08/the-great-moon-hoax-of-1835/
Ruskin, Steven W. “Newly Discovered Letter of J.F.W. Herschel concerning the “Great Moon Hoax” July 22 2016 Journal for the History of Astronomy 33(1):71-74. Accessed 12 January 2023. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002182860203300108?journalCode=jhaa
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