The Hoaxer: The Many Media Pranks of Alan Abel

from Profiles In Eccentricity · host John Fahy, Aaron Pita, Matt Brousseau

This week, fan favorite Laura Crawford returns to share the story of media fraudster Alan Abel who fooled everyone from Donahue to Walter Cronkite, started fake campaigns against animal nudity and faked his own death.

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