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Entertainment | 10/29/2009 1:00 am

We Fell For That? 9 of History's Greatest Hoaxes

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Admit it: Sometimes you fall for it – a joke, a white lie, a prank. And sometimes we all fall, collectively, for something big. In a recent conversation with the wOw women, we recount some of those grand-scale hoaxes, the incidents that had us all in awe at the start … and smacking our foreheads when all was said and done.

Read more about: Balloon Boy, Entertainment, Heene, Hitler Diaries, Hoax, Milli Vanilli, Paul McCartney, Pulitzer Prize, War of the Worlds

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Bonnie Schuster

It’s unbelievable how far these hoaxes went. It would be much harder to putll them off today with all the news channels we have access too. People question events much more.

By Bonnie Schuster on 10/29/2009 10:19 am

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In the past I do remember the Milli Vanilli one. And reading about the others.

By Beth Cornell on 10/29/2009 1:37 pm

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