1.  Select three different hoaxes either from below or choose a different hoax from the general web pages on hoaxes to the right.

2.  Research those hoaxes.

3.  Discuss the characteristics and origins of those websites.

4.  Discuss why that particular hoax was originated.

5.  What was the purpose of the group who originated that hoax?

6.  To what degree does the hoax have the elements of a conspiracy (secrecy, multiple agents, efforts at power to control events)

Hoaxbusters Webpage

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/

Museum of Hoaxes

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/

Urban Legends Top 25

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bltop25.htm

Scambusters

http://www.scambusters.org/legends.html

Snopes Rumor Has It

http://www.snopes.com/

Aids Mary

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/aidsmary.htm

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa100798.htm

Alligators in the Sewer

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/alligators/a/sewer_gators.htm

http://lists.gatorhole.com/pipermail/croclist/2002-November/000102.html

Kentucky Fried Hoax

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-373X%28198710%2946%3A4%3C294%3ACFCATK%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/friedrat.asp

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/alligators/a/sewer_gators.htm

Kidney Harvest

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBUrbanMyths.shtml#kidney

Fake Nostradamus Prophecies

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBUrbanMyths.shtml#nostradamus

http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/predict.htm

Cloning Humans

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20040118/ai_n9723265

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34380-2004Feb11?language=printer

Lights Out and Gangsters

http://www.nuketown.com/node/2006

http://www.turnmeondeadman.net/IBP/Reading.php

http://humor.about.com/library/blds010399.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead

http://www.beatlesagain.com/bpidnew.html

Chinese Food

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/chinese.asp

Coca-Cola

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cokelore.asp

KKK

http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/marlboro.asp

Special Jewish Tax

http://www.snopes.com/racial/business/kosher.asp

Urine in Corona Beer

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/corona.asp