DECLASSIFIED takes you deeper into the secrets and stories that have shaped our world.

Declassified

A skull and jawbone discovered in 1912 seems to be the missing link between ape and man.

History's Greatest Hoaxes

Piltdown Man

Henri Charrierre's autobiography about life on the French Guiana penal colony is exposed as fiction.

Papillon: Fact or Fiction

Hear how Orson Welles convinced millions of Americans that Earth really was being invaded by aliens.

War of the Worlds

The apparent discovery of Hitler's diaries in 1983 caused a sensation, but they were fake.

Hitler's Diaries

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The world loves a good hoax, and for years, certain men, women and sometimes entire organizations have gone out of their way to trick people into believing things weren't quite the way they seemed. A number of them were very successful.

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