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

(contracted; show full)* [[Salamander Letter]]
* ''[[The Report From Iron Mountain]]''
* The [[Oera Linda]] book
* The [[Hitler Diaries]]
* The [[Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]
* Les ''[[Dossiers Secrets|Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau]]''


==As a field of study==
False documents were recently the topic of a graduate-level seminar in the humanities at the [[University of Michigan]]. The seminar was taught by Professor [[Eileen Pollack]]. While the form has existed for at least two hundred years, the focused study of it is fairly recent.⏎
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==See also==
* [[False documentation]]
* [[Alternate reality game]]
* [[A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century]], an anti-Semitic forgery
* [[April Fools' Day RFC]]
* [[Conspiracy theory]]
* [[Donation of Constantine]]
* [[Epistolary novel]]
* [[Fictional book]]
* [[Fictional guidebook]]
* [[Forgery]]
* [[Frame tale]]
* [[Literary forgery]]
* [[Literary technique]]
* [[Fictitious entry]]
* [[Mockumentary]]
* [[Questioned document examination]]
* [[Urban legend]]
* [[Voynich manuscript]]

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

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