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1959
 Alan Abel (1924-2018) formed the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (SINA), seeking to clothe all naked animals that appear in public. In 1963 Time magazine exposed the organization as a hoax.
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2022 Apr 18
 Sherri Papini (39) of Redding, California, pleaded guilty to faking her own kidnapping and lying to the FBI about it, leaving her motive unanswered in the carefully planned hoax that set off a massive 3-week search before she resurfaced on Thanksgiving Day in 2016. On Sept. 19 she was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $300,000 in restitution.
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