It came from the airwaves-radio. The London Riot hoax
Radio daze-the martian invasion broadcast
The martians return
Infamous disc jockey hoaxes
Playing with fire: nuclear scares
It came from the small screen-television
"This just in
" NBC frightens viewers
"Look! up in the sky!" asteroid panic
Pokemon panics and creepy crawley scares
The "documentary" that fooled England
Hurricane Katrina mythmaking
Chicken little and the Bird Flu panic
The Russians are coming!
The video nasties scare / Peter Hassall
It came from ink-newspapers. The Batmen on the moon hoax
The Central Park Zoo panic
The Halley's Comet scare of 1910
How the press created an imaginary terrorist
The hook hoax
The ghost slasher of Taiwan
The phantom clown panic
It came from cyberspace-the Internet. Chemtrails and conspiracies
Morgellons: the first Internet disease?
Katrina evacuee myths
The e-mail virus panic / Bill Ellis
It came from a friend of a friend-media-spread urban legends. Urban legends and the media
The curse of the crying boy / David Clarke
Photos of the gods / David Clarke
It came from everywhere. The satanic cult scare
Halloween panics
Stranger danger and the predator next door
The school safety panic
"Out of the water!" media shark frenzy
The great Puerto Rican chupacabra panic
YouTube, popcorn and the killer cell phones
Someone stole my kidney! organ theft scares
Killer vaccines / Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Helen Petousis-Harris.
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The Martians have landed! : a history of media-driven panics and hoaxes by Robert E. Bartholomew. ISBN 9780786464982. Published by McFarland in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
