The following is a list of hoaxes: Proven hoaxes These are some claims that have been revealed or proven definitively to be deliberate public hoaxes. This list does not include hoax articles published on or around April 1, a long list of which can be found in the "List of April Fools' Day jokes" article. A–F Cedric Allingham, fictitious author who wrote a book about meeting the pilot of a Martian spacecraft. Allingham was created by British astronomer Patrick Moore and his friend Peter Davies. Alien autopsy, a hoax film by Ray Santilli. The Archko Volume, a collection of documents related to the life of Jesus. Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari, a fake Syrian blogger. The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, a book about the purported sexual enslavement of a nun. Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet co-authored the book China Under the Empress Dowager using a forged diary as a major source, with a manuscript of Backhouse's memoirs also being mostly fiction. He also falsely represented himself as representing the Chinese Imperial Court in business deals and donated forged books to the Bodleian Library. The Balloon-Hoax, depicting a cross-Atlantic hot air balloon trip. The balloon boy hoax, a boy reported to be traveling uncontrollably at high altitudes in a home-made helium balloon but was later discovered to be hiding in the attic of his house. Bananadine, a fictional drug made from bananas. Bathtub hoax, an imaginary history of the bathtub published by H. L. Mencken. Johann Beringer's Lying Stones Berners Street hoax in 1810. Franz Bibfeldt, a fictitious theologian originally invented to provide a footnote for a divinity school student, which later became an in-joke among academic theologians. The Big Donor Show, a hoax reality television program in the Netherlands about a woman donating her kidneys to one of three people requiring a transplantation. Bishop Sycamore High School, a fraudulent high school that scheduled matches against elite high school football teams in 2020 and 2021. C. W. Blubberhouse, whose letters in UK national newspapers were exposed as a hoax by the Sunday Times. Blue waffle, a supposedly contagious sexually-transmitted disease affecting only women, causing a blue discoloration of the vagina. Pierre Brassau was a pseudonym for a chimpanzee whose art was exhibited in a gallery under the presumption that Brassau was a real human artist. The chimpanzee received positive reviews from several critics. Calaveras Skull was a human skull found