Category:Historical
Era. The claim predates mass internet adoption (pre-1995 as a working cutoff) and spread through print, broadcast or word of mouth.
Pages in category "Historical"
The following 151 pages are in this category, out of 151 total.
A
- A six-year-old floated away in a homemade balloon
- Accused witches were burned at the stake in Salem
- Acid rain was an exaggerated threat
- An alien autopsy film showed a body recovered at Roswell
- Arson evidence proved Cameron Todd Willingham set the fire that killed his children
- Astrology predicts personality and destiny
B
C
- Catherine the Great died while having sex with a horse
- CFCs do not destroy the ozone layer
- Charles Ponzi's postal reply coupon scheme
- Chastity belts were common in the Middle Ages
- Climate science is too uncertain to act on
- Cold fusion
- Communists set the Reichstag fire
- Crack babies were permanently damaged by their mothers' drug use
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- Facilitated communication lets nonspeaking people communicate
- Fat, not sugar, is the main dietary cause of heart disease
- Feminists burned bras at the 1968 Miss America protest
- FIFA's leadership was free of corruption
- Football does not cause long-term brain damage
- Forwarding an email will earn you money from Bill Gates
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J
L
M
- Manti Te'o's girlfriend Lennay Kekua
- Marie Antoinette said "Let them eat cake"
- Mark Hofmann's Salamander Letter rewrote Mormon history
- Medieval people believed the Earth was flat
- Microscopic hair analysis can match a hair to a specific person
- Milli Vanilli sang their own songs
- Misha Defonseca lived with wolves during the Holocaust
- Most abducted children are taken by strangers
- Mrs. O'Leary's cow started the Great Chicago Fire
- Mussolini made the trains run on time
N
P
- Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced by a look-alike
- Paul Revere shouted "The British are coming!"
- People are left-brained or right-brained learners
- People learn better in their preferred learning style
- People remember 10 percent of what they read and 90 percent of what they do
- Pete Rose never bet on baseball
- Phrenology reveals character from the shape of the skull
- Plastic with the recycling symbol gets recycled
- Pocahontas saved John Smith from execution
- Poland attacked the Gleiwitz radio station
- Polygraphs can detect lies
- Potemkin villages were built to fool Catherine the Great
- Procter & Gamble's logo is a satanic symbol
R
S
- Satanic ritual abuse at the McMartin Preschool
- Snake oil cures pain and disease
- Spain sank the USS Maine
- Speed reading lets you read thousands of words a minute
- Statues of Ganesha drank milk in 1995
- Stephen Glass's stories in The New Republic were true
- Strangers poison children's Halloween candy
- Stratton Oakmont stock recommendations
- Subliminal ads made moviegoers buy more popcorn and Coca-Cola
- Sugar makes children hyperactive
- Super Bowl Sunday is the worst day of the year for domestic violence
- Superpredators would cause a juvenile crime wave
T
- The 1919 World Series was played honestly
- The 2002 Olympic pairs skating result was judged fairly
- The Apollo Moon landings were faked
- The Bible Code predicts world events
- The Central Park Five were guilty because they confessed
- The Civil War was fought over states' rights, not slavery
- The Cottingley Fairies photographs
- The Diary of Anne Frank is a forgery
- The Donation of Constantine
- The Emancipation Proclamation freed all enslaved people
- The Great Moon Hoax
- The Great Salad Oil Swindle
- The Great Wall of China is visible from space
- The Hitler Diaries
- The Houston Astros won the 2017 World Series fairly
- The iron maiden was a medieval torture device
- The Lusitania carried no munitions
- The marshmallow test shows willpower determines life success
- The Patriots deliberately deflated footballs
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
- The pyramids of Giza were built by slaves
- The second Gulf of Tonkin attack
- The Shroud of Turin is the burial cloth of Jesus
- The South Sea Company would make investors rich
- The Spanish flu came from Spain
- The Sports Illustrated cover jinx
- The Surgeon's Photograph of the Loch Ness Monster
- The Titanic was advertised as unsinkable
- The US military created AIDS
- The War of the Worlds broadcast caused nationwide panic
- The Wehrmacht fought a clean war
- The welfare queen was a common figure
- The White House had no involvement in Watergate
- The Y2K bug would bring civilization to a halt
- The Zimmermann Telegram was a British forgery
- The Zinoviev letter
- There is no proof that smoking causes cancer
- Thirty-eight witnesses watched Kitty Genovese's murder and did nothing
- Thomas Edison invented the light bulb
- Three-cueing teaches children to read
- Tulip mania ruined the Dutch economy