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Hoaxes and legends have played a significant role in the history of upstate New York.For example: The Cardiff Giant, buried and "discovered" in the Onondaga County hamlet of Cardiff, attracted such attention from the public, and from writers such as Mark Twain and L. Frank Baum that P. T. Barnum made a copy which toured the country with his circus.
The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous archaeological hoaxes in American history. It was a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m), roughly 3,000 pound [1] purported "petrified man", uncovered on October 16, 1869, by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. "Stub" Newell, in Cardiff, New York.
The 1984 Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, also called "The Westchester Boomerang", [2] were UFO sightings that stretched throughout 1983–1984 [3] in New York and Western Connecticut. Pilots flew Cessna 152s in tight formation with bright lights that could change colors.
An upstate New York automobile association is warning its members of a recent uptick in fraudulent emails and text messages. AAA Western and Central New York alerted its members to the fraudulent ...
In 2007 when the New York Times reached out to Head for an interview as part of an anniversary piece they were conducting, Head repeatedly cancelled her scheduled phone interviews and eventually ...
Tawana Vicenia Brawley [1] (born December 15, 1971) [1] [2] is an African American woman from New York who gained notoriety in November 1987 at age 15 when she falsely accused four white men of kidnapping and raping her over a four-day period.
Officer facing multiple charges, including felony
The Pompey stone in 2021. The Pompey stone was a stone that was carved as a hoax near Pompey, New York, circa 1820.Upon its discovery that year, the stone was quickly accepted as authentic, dated to circa 1520, and extensively analyzed by historians of the day for its significance as an early record of European presence in the region.