The Museum of Hoaxes is a website created by Alex Boese in 1997 in San Diego, California, as a resource for reporting and discussing hoaxes and urban legends, both past and present.Emery, David, "The Bunk Stops Here: An interview with Alex Boese, curator of the Museum of Hoaxes", San Francisco Chronicle, December 19, 2002 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006).Berman, A. S., "Museum-of-Hoaxes highlights online gullibility", USA Today, August 16, 2001 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006).Terdiman, Daniel, "Wry Hoaxes Enliven the World of Web Diarists", The New York Times, July 29, 2004 (URL last accessed May 23, 2008).
In 2004, PC Magazine included the site as one of the "Top 100 Sites You Didn't Know You Couldn't Live Without","Museum of Hoaxes" (advertiser profile), Federated Media Publishing, URL last accessed November 1, 2006."The Museum of Hoaxes" , PC Magazine, April 20, 2004 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006). and Sci Fi Weekly named it "site of the week" for the week beginning 7 February 2007.Dellamonica, A. M., "Museum of Hoaxes" , Sci Fi Weekly, February 7, 2007 (URL last accessed November 17, 2007).
Boese has published two books on hoaxes: Museum of HoaxesE.P. Dutton, 2002, and Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S.Harvest Books, 2006, A third book by Boese, Elephants on Acid,Harvest Books, 2007, focuses on unusual scientific experiments, with the follow-up Electrified Sheep published in 2011.Boxtree, 2011, His latest book Psychedelic Apes, about the weirdest theories in science and history, was published in 2019.Macmillan, 2019,
Notable hoaxes covered
90 Day Jane
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