Monthly Archives: October 2015

“This disease is my enemy. A fetus is damaged when the mother drinks alcohol.” This hoax is about the story of a fake Navajo writer, named Nasdjii, who claimed that his adopted son, died of fetal alcohol syndrome. The first … Continue reading →

“The eyes are the windows to the soul.” Tim Burton’s Big Eyes focuses on the deception and fraud built upon a marriage between Margaret and Walter Keane. Eyes are a huge focus in this movie, as Burton explores a ten-year hoax in … Continue reading →

“AFTER THE very minute and elaborate paper by Arago, to say nothing of the summary in ‘Silliman’s Journal,’ with the detailed statement just published by Lieutenant Maury, it will not be supposed, of course, that in offering a few hurried … Continue reading →

“It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or … Continue reading →

“He was so flawed. But his fishing tackle was sublime.” “The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams” is a memoir written by Nasdijj, a Native American man eventually discovered to be a fraud, describing his experiences living in … Continue reading →

“From 1964 to 1966 I successfully impersonated an airline pilot for Pan Am Airlines, and flew over two million miles for free. During that time I was also the Chief Resident Pediatrician at a Georgia hospital, the Assistant Attorney General for … Continue reading →

Therefore I repeat, let no man talk to me of these and the like expedients, ’till he hath at least some glympse of hope, that there will ever be some hearty and sincere attempt to put them into practice. Swift’s … Continue reading →

“THE GREAT problem is at length solved! The air, as well as the earth and the ocean, has been subdued by science and will become a common and convenient highway for mankind.” Poe does an excellent job of creating an … Continue reading →

RICHIE DIMASO: What, did you try to dress me so I would look like him? EDITH: GREENSLY No, you’re not dressed like him, all right? Richie is an FBI agent and doesn’t want to be associated with the con artists … Continue reading →

“Fishing was our antidote to keep from falling into a blackness Tommy knew was there gnawing at his bones like an animal. A gravity to all his many failures.” In this story, the narrator’s son has died from Fetal Alcohol … Continue reading →