Hoaxes & Deceptions

Piltdown. Even today the name sends a shiver down the collective spine of the scientific community, for this was the most dramatic and daring fraud...

The shocking history of the espionage and infiltration of American media during WWI and the man who exposed it. A man who was not who he claimed to...

On November 8, 1937, a tourist from California named L. E. Hammond walked onto the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, carrying a 21...

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Wild, heart-wrenching, and unexpectedly funny, Nowhere Girl is an inspiring coming-of-age memoir about running for freedom against the odds. To the...

In 1749, a newspaper advertisement appeared declaring that a man would climb inside a bottle on the stage of a London theatre. Although the crowds ...

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An enthralling exploration of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to f...

Why do serial killers gravitate towards certain kinds of occupation? Jobs with minimum oversight or ties, the opportunity to leave the radar and th...

2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Nonfiction Book WinnerA sinister plot by a young woman left her mother dead and her father riddled with bullets. Fro...

In the 1940s, the eminent British botanist John Heslop Harrison proposed a controversial theory: that vegetation on the islands off the west coast ...