Archeology
Unearthed a 300-year-old coin hidden by a Polish scammer
Metal detectorists have unearthed a treasure trove of coins that may have once belonged to a charlatan who hid in the mountains of south-central Poland after scamming pe…
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History
Top 10 shocking tricks in April Fool's Day history
April Fools' Day scams: The news that 'Effeil tower has been dismantled' was published on the front page of a French newspaper; Google once teased users with the announc…
Health
Activated charcoal toothpaste whitening is a scam
Activated charcoal toothpaste advertised as having the ability to whiten teeth actually may increase the risk of tooth decay and dullness, according to UK dentists.
Discover science
The biggest scam about life on the Moon
The story begins early in the summer when Benjamin Day, the founder of New York Sun, meets Adams Locke, who claims to be a major journalist, attended the University of C…
Discover science
The story of Poyais Kingdom - A hero's deceitful scam
Drawing a beautiful perspective called Poyais, the scammer made many people fall into death. He was arrested, but then emerged as a hero.
Discover science
6 ways of 'brain scams' make people work harder
Learn the super easy tricks to help your brain concentrate and work more effectively.
1001 mystery
Monster or just a deer?
New footage of Champ - the monster that is supposed to be hiding in Lake Champlain, Vermont - has just been announced recently.
Archeology
Phishing Art: The truth about crystal skulls
Only three months after the Quai Branly Museum in Paris discovered a cherished crystal skull was a mysterious Aztec masterpiece, a fake, the British Museum and the bitte…
Space science
Explain the case of being abducted by aliens
Stories kidnapped by aliens are simply scams or disturbances of human brain activity.
Animal world
Humans have been cheated for hundreds of years by turtles without knowing
Ever since, everyone thought that turtles were slow animals with steps
Science story
A fraudulent detective found the FBI secret device used to detect the location, and was released
The story below tells of a rogue criminal who has done everything he can to study some mysterious device that the American police used to arrest him.
Science story
Top 10 science scams
When discovering surprising and unique discoveries, never before, scientists can achieve fame and wealth of money. Most of the time, this is the driving force behind pos…
Science story
Reversing the most cultivated science scam in history
This is a detective story about a case that existed hundreds of years ago: the falsification of a lost link in human evolution has not been revealed for decades.
Medicine - Health
Instructions on how to buy gold, distinguish real gold and fake gold
Gold is a precious metal so it has been researched by many scams.
Medicine - Health
'Making stem cell banking from umbilical cord is a trick
Private hospitals with the stem cell bank of the infant's umbilical cord to use in cases of serious illnesses later are deceptive.