All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Alien Autopsy

    • October 13, 2016
    • U&Yesterday

    Ray Santilli's fake footage of a Roswell-era alien autopsy convinced many people in the 1990s that it was real. Hear how this hoax took hold and was ultimately exposed.

  • S01E02 The Loch Ness Monster

    • October 20, 2016
    • U&Yesterday

    Ancient plesiosaur, natural phenomena or hoax? Find out as the grainy image taken in 1934 of what appears to be a huge creature in Loch Ness is scrutinised.

  • S01E03 Hitler's Diaries

    • October 27, 2016
    • U&Yesterday

    The apparent discovery of Hitler's diaries in 1983 caused a sensation - but they were in fact the work of forger Konrad Kujau. This sophisticated hoax is revisited.

  • S01E04 War of the Worlds

    • November 3, 2016
    • U&Yesterday

    Hear how Orson Welles' infamous radio adaptation of the HG Wells classic convinced millions of Americans that Earth really was being invaded by aliens from Mars.

  • S01E05 Papillion: Fact or Fiction

    • November 10, 2016
    • U&Yesterday

    Hear how a best-selling book written by Henri Charrierre, which told of his life on a penal colony island in French Guiana, was exposed as mostly fiction.

  • S01E06 Piltdown Man

    • November 17, 2016
    • U&Yesterday

    The discovery of a skull and jawbone in 1912 fooled many people into thinking the 'missing link' between ape and man had been found. Hear how this devious hoax unfolded.