Cereal spin doctors
On April Fool’s Day four years ago, Joe Nickell issued his skeptics’ Top 10 list of the world’s hardiest paranormal hoaxes. His prime examples included the Amityville Horror, King Tut’s Curse, psychic surgery and the Roswell saucer crash.
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