This spring, we are celebrating our URBAN LEGENDS: FROM PLAYGROUND LORE TO CULTURAL NORMS programming, which includes exhibits, panel discussions, campfire zoom events, scavenger hunts, and more!

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Textual Deceptions: False Memoirs and Literary Hoaxes in the Contemporary Era

The Martians Have Landed!: A History of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes

Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-facts and Fake News

The Encyclopedia of Misinformation

Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World

Hoaxes, Humbugs, and Spectacles: Astonishing Photographs of Smelt Wrestlers, Human Projectiles, Giant Hailstones, Contortionists, Elephant Impersonators, and Much, Much more!

Hoaxes and Scams: A Compendium of Deceptions, Ruses, and Swindles

An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural: James Randi’s Decidedly Skeptical Definition of Alternative Realities

Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend

The Satanism Scare

Moral Panics

A Colorful History of Popular Delusions

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Post-truth