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    Hoaxers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 413min
    Kearny and Donny MacGregor are famous hoaxers whose lineage can be traced to a long line of conmen and tricksters. Hours before the brothers perform a successful crop circle hoax, they are approached about creating an Earth light hoax for the mayor of Stony Creek, the Bigfoot capital of northern California. Earth light is a general term used to describe unknown lights in the sky, and the mayor of Stony Creek believes that this second "phenomenon" will help pull the town from its revenue slump. After several successful Earth light hoaxes, a loose group of truth seekers forms, lead by Sheriff Nicki Stanford and local Bigfoot debunker Possum, and the chase is on. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack de Golia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/020700/bk_acx0_020700_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pig Island , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 765min
    Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes, but when he visits a secretive religious cult on a remote Scottish island, everything he thought he knew is overturned. While investigating a strange apparition caught briefly on film wandering the lonely beaches of Pig Island, so deformed it can hardly be human, Oakes crosses a border of electrical fencing, toxin-filled oil drums, and pigs' skulls to infiltrate the territory of the group's isolated founder, Malachi Dove. The violent consequences of Oakes' transgression are so catastrophic that it forces him to question the nature of evil and to face a terrible reality: Was Dove responsible for one of the bloodiest crimes Scotland has seen in years? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Crossley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/000827/bk_drms_000827_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Occult Arts: Theosophical Classics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 51min
    In his treatise on the Occult Arts, William Judge explores a process of precipitation that could only be described as a sort of astral alchemy, such as was taught by the Theosophical Society, at the time. To Madame Blavatsky and her peers in the Spiritualism movement, this was a popular method of receiving messages, sometimes in the form of a cypher, from the Masters of Ancient Wisdom, most often referred to as simply the Adepts. From there, Judge continues onward, to discuss the connected practices of disintegration and reintegration, all the while acknowledging that while often subject to fraud and hoaxes, these spiritual experiments are very much real. The author concludes with a number of quotes from Isis Unveiled. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Hanin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/028328/bk_acx0_028328_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Choice Humorous Works
    The Choice Humorous Works ab 70.99 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Ludicrous Adventures Bon Mots Puns And Hoaxes Of Theodore Hook (1876). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,
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    The Reason for the Darkness of the Night (eBook, ePUB)
    A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeAn innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe-highlighting his fascination and feuds with science.Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is beloved around the world for his pioneering detective fiction, tales of horror, and haunting, atmospheric verse. But what if there was another side to the man who wrote "The Raven" and "The Fall of the House of Usher"?In The Reason for the Darkness of the Night, John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe's obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. Even as he composed dazzling works of fiction, he remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era's most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues. As one newspaper put it, "Mr. Poe is not merely a man of science-not merely a poet-not merely a man of letters. He is all combined; and perhaps he is something more."Taking us through his early training in mathematics and engineering at West Point and the tumultuous years that followed, Tresch shows that Poe lived, thought, and suffered surrounded by science-and that many of his most renowned and imaginative works can best be understood in its company. He cast doubt on perceived certainties even as he hungered for knowledge, and at the end of his life delivered a mind-bending lecture on the origins of the universe that would win the admiration of twentieth-century physicists. Pursuing extraordinary conjectures and a unique aesthetic vision, he remained a figure of explosive contradiction: he gleefully exposed the hoaxes of the era's scientific fraudsters even as he perpetrated hoaxes himself. Tracing Poe's hard and brilliant journey, The Reason for the Darkness of the Night is an essential new portrait of a writer whose life is synonymous with mystery and imagination-and an entertaining, erudite tour of the world of American science just as it was beginning to come into its own.
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    Alien Investigation: Searching for the Truth About UFOs and Aliens , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 74min
    Imagine...you're in the woods after dark. Eerie green lights appear in the distance. Then there's a sudden flash and everything is dark again. You decide to take a closer look. You come upon a saucer-shaped craft hovering silently just above the ground. You reach out to touch it, but the object suddenly shoots up into the sky. Have you just seen a UFO? Some people say they have had experiences like this. Are they telling the truth? To find out, Kelly Milner Halls investigated stories of eyewitnesses from around the world. She explored UFO sightings, landings, crashes, aliens, and even a few hoaxes. She also interviewed several of the world's UFO experts. Examine her findings and decide for yourself whether visitors from other worlds are real. (Age Level: 10 - 18) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Intuitive. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lrnr/000116/bk_lrnr_000116_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1224min
    Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended was the 161-year-old nursemaid to George Washington, and What Is It?, an African-American man Barnum professed was a newly discovered missing link in evolution. Bunk then turns to the hoaxing of history and the ways that forgers, plagiarists, and journalistic fakers invent backstories and falsehoods to sell us lies about themselves and about the world in our own time, from pretend Native Americans Grey Owl and Nasdijj to the deadly imposture of Clark Rockefeller, from the made-up memoirs of James Frey to the identity theft of Rachel Dolezal. In this brilliant and timely work, Young asks what it means to live in a post-factual world of "truthiness" where everything is up for interpretation and everyone is subject to a pervasive cynicism that damages our ideas of reality, fact, and art. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mirron Willis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001407/bk_high_001407_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Loch Ness Monster: The Legendary Stories of the Loch Ness Monster from an Unbiased View , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 32min
    You're about to discover the crazy details about the Loch Ness Monster. With the easy access of the Internet, people all over the world have been interested in knowing whether or not Nessie exists. While I don't claim to know the answer to that, this book serves as an informative guide that provides confirmed information and is unbiased. There are so many random stories floating around with no basis, and they serve to misguide the masses. With this book, you'll get a clear understanding of how these myths were created. This book goes into the origin and history of the Loch Ness Monster and the extremely mind-boggling stories that have been presented, as well as the stories that have been debunked. Here is a preview of what you'll learn: History and origins of the Loch Ness Monster Loch Ness Monster in mythology and theory Hoaxes and evidence ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Pauley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/044730/bk_acx0_044730_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    My Brother's Keeper , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 387min
    The story of a powerful surf brotherhood and the chilling and bloody killing of a brutal underworld figure.A blood smear trailing along a footpath of a suburban Sydney street went largely ignored by local residents accustomed to hoaxes and bloody turf brawls in their beachside suburb. Initially police suspected it was nothing more than animal blood. But at the end of the trail, at the base of a Maroubra cliff, lay the naked body of notorious underworld figure Tony Hines, shot four times at close range. Hines was a man with a history of violence, a rape conviction and a long list of enemies.In the months following the discovery of his body, police unearthed more than just a killing. They found a story of revenge that would shock the city and the international surfing world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Humphrey Bower. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/000527/bk_boli_000527_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bigfoot Dreams: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 706min
    A novel about learning to live in a world stranger than any tabloid headline Though she's written dispatches from across the globe - covering the Loch Ness monster, live dinosaurs, and the ever-enigmatic yeti - Vera Perl never leaves the offices of "This Week," a supermarket tabloid covering the universe's stranger side. Her reporting is done entirely inside her own head, and now she’s contemplating a Bigfoot exposé that will astonish even the most jaded conspiracy theorist. No one is better than Vera at imagining these weird, wild stories, because more than anything, she wants them to be true. One day, she dreams up a scoop about two Brooklyn children whose lemonade stand has amazing curative properties, and is shocked to learn that the children she invented actually exist. The resulting lawsuit sends this master of hoaxes into a very real tailspin, and a search for something even more elusive than Bigfoot: solace. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tara Ochs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016007/bk_adbl_016007_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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