Historical clue formulations

• Elaborate trick — 2026-05-27
• Chess-playing Mechanical Turk of 1770, for one — 2026-04-30
• News of an alien landing, probably — 2025-01-14
• Prank on the public — 2024-12-09
• The Cardiff Giant, for one — 2024-04-10
• Loch Ness monster, apparently — 2023-11-19
• What a cryptid might be — 2023-10-12
• Abominable Snowman (probably) — 2022-07-05
• Elaborate deception — 2019-11-06
• Hoodwink — 2018-10-03
• Relative of fake news — 2017-01-03
• Crop circles, e.g. — 2016-11-11
• Put on — 2016-02-19
• What an unbelievable YouTube video might be — 2015-10-07
• Snopes.com subject — 2013-10-15
• Piltdown man, for one — 2013-01-30
• Put one over on — 2012-12-07
• April 1 news story, maybe — 2012-10-01
• Bigfoot photo, e.g. — 2009-09-23
• Piltdown man, notably — 2009-08-19
• Elaborate April fool — 2009-01-26
• April 1st event — 2008-09-08
• Con — 2006-12-14
• Hornswoggle — 2006-03-13
• Deception — 2004-11-10
• Put-on — 2004-10-20
• Put-on — 1999-12-07
• Major prank — 1998-05-28
• Martian invasion report, e.g. — 1998-01-27
• Mare's-nest — 1996-10-12
• Imposture — 1996-09-01