Alex Boese, curator of the Museum of Hoaxes
• Skeptics & Atheists
Among the exhibits are the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, in which a New York newspaper reported that famed British astronomer Sir John Herschel had seen "man-bats" and other bizarre life-forms on the lunar surface through his telescope; the Cardiff Giant, a 10-foot-tall "petrified man" that became such a popular attraction in its day it inspired the saying "There's a sucker born every minute"; and the Emulex hoax of 2000, a bogus press release posted on the Internet by a 23-year-old college student that alarmed Wall Street by sending the stock price of Emulex Corp. into a nosedive.