Museum of Hoaxes

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.[1][2][3][4]

Museum of Hoaxes
OwnerAlex Boese
URLhoaxes.org
Launched1997

In 2004, PC Magazine included the site as one of the "Top 100 Sites You Didn't Know You Couldn't Live Without,"[5][6] and Sci Fi Weekly named it "site of the week" for the week beginning 7 February 2007.[7]

Boese has published two books on hoaxes: Museum of Hoaxes (E.P. Dutton, 2002, ISBN 0-525-94678-0) and Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. (Harvest Books, 2006, ISBN 0-15-603083-7). A third book by Boese, Elephants on Acid (Harvest Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-15-603135-6), focuses on unusual scientific experiments. His latest book is Electrified Sheep, published by Boxtree 2011, is also about strange scientific experiments.

References
  1. 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).
  2. Berman, A. S., "Museum-of-Hoaxes highlights online gullibility", USA Today, August 16, 2001 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006).
  3. Terdiman, Daniel, "Wry Hoaxes Enliven the World of Web Diarists", The New York Times, July 29, 2004 (URL last accessed May 23, 2008).
  4. Shafer, Jack (29 March 2007). "The April Fools' Day Defense Kit". Slate. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
  5. "Museum of Hoaxes" (advertiser profile), Federated Media Publishing, URL last accessed November 1, 2006.
  6. "The Museum of Hoaxes", PC Magazine, April 20, 2004 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006).
  7. Dellamonica, A. M., "Museum of Hoaxes", Sci Fi Weekly, February 7, 2007 (URL last accessed November 17, 2007).


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