Author: Strange Mystery

Famous Hoaxes – The Turk chess machine

| A | Hoaxes
The Turk The Turk was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in 1770. The elaborate machine was designed to look like a Turkish-dressed robot that could defeat even the best human chess players. The Turk toured the world for nearly 84…
Famous hoax or real? – Alien Autopsy

| A | Hoaxes
Alien autopsy In the 1990s, a short film surfaced that purported to be real footage of an alien autopsy performed on an extraterrestrial being that crash landed in Roswell, N.M., in 1947. The film was sold to television networks and…
Famous Hoaxes – Clever Hans

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The horse that could add and read!   Clever Hans was a remarkable horse capable of complex intellectual tasks such as arithmetic, reading, spelling, telling time and even understanding the German language — or at least he had everyone believing…
Hoaxes – The Piltdown Man

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“Piltdown Man” might be the most famous scientific hoax of all time. This skull, which was originally “found” by collector Charles Dawson, fooled most of the world’s paleontologists into believing it represented a key missing link on the ape-human evolutionary…
Apollo Missions

| A | Space
Men on the Moon, the race, the drama and the conspriacy Project Apollo, the United States’ manned moon landing programme, culminated in 1969 with Apollo 11. Mission commander Neil Armstrong’s famous words, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap…
Canals on Mars, ancient alien evidence?

| A | Space
Did Aliens leave evidence on Mars of ancient civilisations?   These days anyone can buy a cheap telescope to look at Mars and explore the unexplained canals.   Some 19th and early 20th century astronomers thought they could see linear…
Is there life on Mars?

| A | Space
To date, no proof of past or present life has been found on Mars. Cumulative evidence suggests that during the ancient Noachian time period, the surface environment of Mars had liquid water and may have been habitable for microorganisms, but habitable…
Alien Mothership nears space station

| A | UFO Mysteries
Have aliens visited the space station?   On Sept. 11, YouTube user danielofdoriaa posted footage from the ISS’s live camera feed, which streams over the Web. In his annotated footage, he points out a faint, elongated white shape with a…