iHeartPodcasts To Debut New Original Podcast 鈥淗oax!鈥 Exploring The Biggest, Boldest Pranks in History
New series will bring stories of pranks and grifts throughout history so big and bold they make you question why and what you believe in the first place
Listen to the first episode now
WHAT: iHeartPodcasts, the No.1 podcast publisher globally today announced a new iHeart original podcast 鈥,鈥 a half-comedy, half-history deep dive into the wildest pranks, cons and scams in history.
Hosted by bestselling author and 鈥淣oble Blood鈥 creator Dana Schwartz and journalist Lizzie Logan, 鈥淗oax!鈥 will explore the most bizarre and unbelievable pranks and hoaxes throughout history 鈥 from the Victorian age to modern day stunts. In the premiere episode 鈥淐ottingley Fairies,鈥 Schwartz and Logan dig into the 1920 story behind two young girls who believed they photographed fairies at a creek behind their England home. Many were skeptical, but when the photos were circulated, they found an unlikely champion in renowned author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed the photo was proof of supernatural phenomena. The hosts investigate the story and how the man who invented literature鈥檚 most prolific detective 鈥淪herlock Holmes,鈥 fell for what was later discovered to be nothing more than a photographic fairy tale made up by two young girls.
Future episodes will cover famous pranks including the fake Shakespeare, Balloon Boy hoax, major cons, grifts and the cultural chaos they caused.
鈥淗oax!鈥 is distributed by iHeartPodcasts.
WHO: Dana Schwartz hosts the chart-topping podcast Noble Blood. She鈥檚 the author of several books, including the New York Times best-seller Anatomy: A Love Story. Her writing appears in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ, Bustle, and more. Lizzie Logan graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dramatic Writing. Her work has appeared in Vulture, Flood, McSweeney's and The New Yorker. Logan lives in Los Angeles with her cat.
WHEN: Listen to the first episode here. New episodes will be released every other week on Mondays.
WHERE: 鈥淗oax!鈥 is available for listeners and everywhere podcasts are heard.
COVER ART: Artwork for 鈥淗oax!鈥 is available .
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