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False document
A '''false document''' is often promoted in conjunction with a criminal enterprise, such as [[fraud]] or a [[confidence game]]. 

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* In a remarkably similar vein, [[science fiction]] artist and author [[Wayne Douglas Barlowe]] wrote ''[[Expedition (book)|Expedition: Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A.D. Voyage to Darwin IV]]'', which was a natural history study of an alien planet and its indigenous wildlife, written as though published in the year 2366.
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*[[Alessandro Manzoni]]'s ''[[The Betrothed (Manzoni novel)|The Betrothed]]'' is based on a fictional manuscript.

=== In film ===
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A false document is usually created as an artistic exercise, but should not be confused with a [[mockumentary]], which is a [[fictional film]] presented in the manner of a [[documentary film|documentary]].

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* [[Curtis Peebles]] (1994). ''Watch the Skies: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth'', [[Smithsonian Institution]], ISBN 1-56098-343-4

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