(The name recalls a famous 18th-century hoax, where what seemed to be a chess-playing automaton really concealed a human chess master.)

The fire gave rise to a famous hoax.

Supposedly petrified Cardiff Giant was one the most famous hoaxes in American history.

The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous hoaxes in United States history.

Possibly the most famous hoax of this type was the "Paul (McCartney) is dead" rumour of the late 1960s.

The most famous hoax, the Piltdown man, had gone undetected for forty years, and its perpetrator was still unknown.

The Piltdown hoax is perhaps the most famous paleoanthropological hoax ever to have been perpetrated.

Perhaps the most famous left-wing hoax was I, Rigoberta Menchu.

Reports on the Piltdown Man, the most famous hoax in all of paleontology, contain some embarrassing rhetorical excesses of their own.

Mason's book on the balloon trip was the model for a famous hoax told by Edgar Allan Poe.