Hoaxes are meant to fool the world and some people fall for them. Would you? Crop circles. Aliens on earth. Fairies caught on film. Giant cats. What do these phenomena have in common? They are all hoaxes. Elaine Pascoe presents well-researched chapters on nearly a dozen infamous hoaxes from the 1800s to the present exploring the stories behind them (how they came to be as well as who instigated them) and pondering why people were so easily fooled...