Six-toed footprints imprinted in the ordinary dust of Meadow Cottage, an 18th-century brick cottage in Dodleston, England, seemed to walk up the …
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The Dodleston Messages: Hoax or Ghost From 1546?
We head to the tiny English town of Dodleston to explore a very strange sequence of events. Plus, the hoax of Edward Mordake, 10 famous paranormal hoaxes and more.
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Edward Mordake was a handsome English aristocrat born into wealth and privilege, but also with a terrible curse, according to an 1895 newspaper …
In the immortal words of Homer Simpson, "Marge, it takes two to lie; one to lie and one to listen." Some of the greatest hoaxes in the history of the …
Here's the story as laid out in the 1855 pamphlet, which was written by an anonymous author and published by a local newspaperman named J.B. Ward. In …
According to legend, a young George Washington confessed to cutting down a cherry tree by proclaiming to his father, "I cannot tell a lie." His …
Which famous horror story claimed to be true, but actually was not? What did two British men do to make people think that aliens were visiting? What …
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