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January 16, 2019 Hoaxes / Virginia

The Mad Gasser of Botetourt County, part 1

The fear of being the gasser’s next victim had reached such proportions that families living in remote areas of the county were sleeping with neighbors.

It’s the Snallygaster

Maryland’s own winged beast? The Snallygaster for several years in the late 1920s and early 1930s caused a sensation in Frederick County.

December 16, 2015 Hoaxes / Newspaper

How a newspaper hoax became ‘The History of the Bathtub’

Thousands of journalists across America were taken in by the most astonishingly successful journalistic hoax of the early 20th century.

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