The Museum of Hoaxes is a website created by Alex Boese in 1997 in San Diego, California, as a resource for reporting and discussing hoaxes and urban legends, both past and present.

[1][2][3][4] In 2004, PC Magazine included the site as one of the "Top 100 Sites You Didn't Know You Couldn't Live Without",[5][6] and Sci Fi Weekly named it "site of the week" for the week beginning 7 February 2007.

[7] Boese has published two books on hoaxes: Museum of Hoaxes[8] and Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S.

[9] A third book by Boese, Elephants on Acid,[10] focuses on unusual scientific experiments, with the follow-up Electrified Sheep published in 2011.

[11] His latest book Psychedelic Apes, about the weirdest theories in science and history, was published in 2019.