Sentence examples for foot hoax from inspiring English sources
Sure, you'd have to deal with the occasional Big Foot hoax, but for the most part, those who had the time or talent to create believable fakes were in the minority.
"Discovered" (1869) by well diggers, the statue was alleged to be a 10-foot (3-metre) petrified prehistoric man, until the hoax was exposed by the American paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh.
One foot, not among the seven, proved to be animal remains and is assumed to be a hoax.
He found a bear's foot tied to a pole that the tracks were made with and concluded that they were a hoax, according to the book about the devil.
Tobias was also known for his part in exposing the Piltdown Man hoax, his collaborations with Louis and Mary Leakey on "Dear Boy" (Olduvai Hominid 5 [OH5]) and other projects, and his excavation of the "Little Foot" specimen in the Sterkfontein caves during the 1960s.
Because people have planted animal feet as hoaxes since the cases began, the police said that testing would be needed to confirm that the foot is from a person.
