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    The Balloon Boy hoax occurred on October 15, 2009, when a homemade helium-filled gas balloon shaped to resemble a silver flying saucer was released into...
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    "The Balloon-Hoax" is the title used in collections and anthologies of a newspaper article by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844...
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  • Balloon hoax may refer to: The Balloon-Hoax (1844) Balloon boy hoax (2009) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Balloon hoax...
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    published in the Southern Literary Messenger. His editor at the time was Richard Adams Locke. He later published "The Balloon-Hoax" in the same newspaper...
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  • created a hoax of moon travel in "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall," as well as The Balloon-Hoax, a hoax newspaper article about the first transatlantic...
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    novel The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840) – Poe's second, unfinished novel "The Balloon-Hoax" (1844) – A journalistic hoax printed as a true story "The Philosophy...
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    published a similar hoax, "The Balloon-Hoax", in the New York Sun in 1844.  Novels portal Ketterer, David. “Poe's Usage of the Hoax and the Unity of ‘Hans...
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    balloon trip he took from England to Germany and on theology. His account of the balloon trip inspired Edgar Allan Poe's fictional The Balloon-Hoax....
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    "Morning on the Wissahiccon" (1844 – The Opal) "The Balloon-Hoax" (April 13, 1844) – A newspaper article that was actually a journalistic hoax "The Philosophy...
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    Theodore Tuckerman. The story is especially interesting as it was published only six months after Poe's own great hoax, "The Balloon-Hoax", which many believed...
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