SYMHC Classics: 5 Historical Hoaxes

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Today's episode revisits a Sarah and Deblina episode about historical hoaxes. For example, a N.Y. cigar maker once commissioned a gypsum skeleton to pass off as a 10-foot-tall petrified man called the Cardiff Giant. Join Deblina and Sarah as they explore the Cardiff Giant, Clever Hans, the Cottingley Fairies, Mary Toft's bunny births and David Wyrick and the the Newark Holy Stones.

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0:33.1	Hello listeners and happy Saturday.
0:35.6	Today's archival episode is from 2013,
0:38.5	and it was the work of prior hosts, Sara and DeBlinah.
0:41.7	It's a collection of historical hoaxes from the card of giant to Mary Toff's claim
0:46.6	that she was giving birth to bunnies.
0:49.0	So enjoy!
0:53.5	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class,
0:56.4	from hashtuffworks.com.
1:05.0	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
1:06.4	I'm DeBlinah Chalkerbordi, and I'm Sara Dottie.
1:08.8	And we just talked about a famous radio hoax on a recent podcast,
1:12.8	the 1938 War of the World's Broadcast.
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