History's Greatest Hoaxes

Historys Greatest Hoaxes looks at how in the 1990s a British music and record promoter presented a black and white film and claimed it was footage of a Roswell-era alien autopsy. While many believed the film at the time, it is now recognized as a hoax with producers of the film going public with their methods for making the film.

Historys Greatest Hoaxes looks at Orson Welless Mercury Theater radio adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds. The simulated news broadcast convinced many Americans that an invasion by Martians was underway. Newspapers claimed that it led to a massive panic around the country, but was the original audience actually that large?