by miners in Calaveras County, California, which was purported to prove that humans, mastodons, and elephants had coexisted in California. The Cardiff Giant was a hoax of a hoax, when P. T. Barnum had a replica made because he could not obtain the "genuine" hoax item. CERN ritual, supposed occult sacrifice on the grounds of CERN. The Cottingley Fairies, photographs of cut-out fairies accepted as real. Crop circles. English pranksters Doug Bower and Dave Chorley claimed they started the phenomenon, and hundreds of "copycat" circles have been fabricated since by other hoaxers. Dahu, a legendary creature well known in France, Switzerland and the north of Italy. Disappearing blonde gene Document 12-571-3570, supposedly establishing that sex had taken place during a NASA space mission. Donation of Constantine, a forged imperial decree by which the 4th-century emperor Constantine the Great supposedly transferred authority over Rome and the Western Roman Empire to the Pope. Drake's Plate of Brass, a forgery that purported to be the brass plaque that Francis Drake posted upon landing in Northern California in 1579. The Dreadnought hoax, perpetrated in 1910 by Horace de Vere Cole and a group of friends who, pretending to be an official delegation from Abyssinia, tricked the Royal Navy into giving them an official tour of the battleship . Drop bear, a supposed dangerous species of koala. Emulex hoax, a stock manipulation scheme. The English Mercurie, a literary hoax purporting to be the first English language newspaper. Fiji mermaid, the supposed remains of a half-fish half-human hybrid. Sidd Finch, fictional baseball player. Furry trout G–M Geostationary Banana Over Texas, an apparent hoax to secure artistic funding. Going Places, University of Leeds art students used the British media to provoke public debate on the nature of art by pretending to take a week-long fun in the sun holiday to Spain then presenting the holiday as their end-of-year project. Google's acquisition of The Walt Disney Company, a hoax about Google acquiring The Walt Disney Company despite Google having no plans to acquire Disney; certain internet users still believe in this hoax. Gorgeous Guy, apparently motiveless hoax, which gained the perpetrator some media attention. Gosford Glyphs, a supposed group of Egyptian hieroglyphs discovered in the 1970s in Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia. "Grávida de Taubaté" (pt), a Brazilian woman who pretended to be pregnant with quadruplets in 2012 and gained national media attention before her pregnancy was