TOP APRIL FOOL HOAXES WITH FORTEAN THEMES

(Showing overall rank in Top 100 and year)

CRYPTOZOOLOGY (9)

#13: The Body of nessie Found (1972) #19: Hotheaded naked ice Borers (1995) #25: Flying Penguins (2008) #40: The Frankfurt Zoo’s White elephant (1949) #51: retro-breeding the Woolly mammoth (1984) #53: canned unicorn meat (2010) #71: Qualcomm’s Wolf Pigeon (2009) #82: How To cook A unicorn (2012) #93: The Tasmanian mock Walrus (1984)

SCIENCE (13)

#2: instant colour Tv (1962) #12: man Flies By own lung Power (1934) #30: Boimate (1983) #31: Thomas edison invents Food machine (1878) #34: The interfering Brassieres (1982) #36: Whistling carrots (2002) #43: Diseases of Brunus edwardii (1972) #45: smellovision (1965) #49: rain-Deflecting open Top car (1983) #54: lard From live Pigs (1921) #61: contra-Polar energy (1995) #70: Atmospheric energy Harnessed (1923) #92: The British Weather machine (1981)

UFOS/SPACE (4)

#6: Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity (1976) #8: uFo lands in london (1989) #28: The swiss moon landing Hoax (1967) #52: The Wiesbaden martian (1950)

PSYCHOLOGY (5)

#37: Gmail motion (2011) #20: The left-Handed Whopper (1998) #42: viewers Take offense (1960) #66: nat Tate (1998) #83: Why Doesn’t America read Anymore? (2014)

MISCELLANEOUS (7)

#3: The eruption of mount edgecumbe (1974) #16: easter island statue Washes Ashore (1962) #21: The Predictions of isaac Bickerstaff (1708) #33: Atomic mist invades eindhoven (1947) #76: The Derbyshire mummified Fairy (2007) #79: Frogs meet Wave (1906) #84: World to end Tomorrow (1940)