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Trainwreck: Balloon Boy
0h 52m
Movie 2025

Trainwreck: Balloon Boy

On Oct. 15, 2009, a father in Fort Collins, Colorado, speaks to a 911 operator, claiming that his homemade dirigible has escaped from the family backyard, carrying his 6-year-old son inside. But what appears to be a tragedy takes a sharp turn into something else. Public sympathy quickly turns into righteous outrage, as Balloon Boy quickly becomes one of America’s most infamous — and bizarre — news stories.

The Bigfoot Trap
1h 25m
Movie 2023

The Bigfoot Trap

A journalist's life is changed forever when he's locked inside of a bigfoot trap by an insane sasquatch hunter.

Pervert: Hunting the Strip Search Caller
0h 42m
TV Show 2022

Pervert: Hunting the Strip Search Caller

This docuseries follows the investigation into a hoax caller who talked managers into strip-searching employees at fast food businesses across the US.

The Proof Is Out There
0h 51m
TV Show 2021

The Proof Is Out There

Each episode analyzes and passes verdicts on several seemingly impossible things “caught on film,” including giant beasts, UFOS, apocalyptic sounds, hairy humans, alleged mutants from the deep, conspiracies, and many other cases. Host and veteran journalist Tony Harris takes nothing for granted in a quest for answers, tracking down eyewitnesses, putting each photo or film through a battery of tests, calling out the hoaxes, and highlighting the most credible evidence in an attempt to better understand our world.

Haunted or Hoax
0h 6m
TV Show 2016

Haunted or Hoax

Casey and Jac are the creators of a new website called Haunted or Hoax. Together, they visit some of the most terrifying and creepy locations in an effort to determine if the paranormal stories they have heard are true. First on their list is the old, Victorian masterpiece known as Grantham House. What will they find?

History's Greatest Hoaxes
TV Show 2016

History's Greatest Hoaxes

History's Greatest Hoaxes looks at some of the most spectacular hoaxes that show that you can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. It looks at remarkable hoaxes including the Hitler Diaries, the Piltdown Man, the War of the World broadcast, Papillon, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Alien Autopsy film.

Awang-Awang (In Their Mind)
Movie 2020

Awang-Awang (In Their Mind)

I Wanna Marry
0h 42m
TV Show 2014

I Wanna Marry "Harry"

Summer love is in the air, as an average English "bloke" is given the royal treatment and an upper crust makeover before meeting 12 single American women searching for Prince Charming. Will he be able to convince them he's regal? And if he does, will they fall for the crown, or fall in love with the real him? Join "Harry' as he courts each of the ladies, taking them on romantic dates worthy of a princess and trying to make some version of their fairytales come true.

Hoaxed
2h 5m
Movie 2019

Hoaxed

An insider's look at the fake news phenomenon and the consequences of media misinformation. Interviews from those who have been accused of spreading it themselves are featured in variety throughout the film.

Finding Bigfoot
0h 45m
TV Show 2011

Finding Bigfoot

From small towns in the South to remote areas of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, four eccentric but passionate members of the Bigfoot Field Research Organization (BFRO) embark on one single-minded mission - to find the elusive "creature" known as Bigfoot or the Sasquatch.

The Cleansing Hour
1h 31m
Movie 2019

The Cleansing Hour

Two millennial entrepreneurs stage elaborate fake exorcisms on social media until one of their girlfriends becomes possessed by a demon.

A Wish for Giants
1h 19m
Movie 2018

A Wish for Giants

Sophie, a young volunteer, meets her kindred spirit in Roxie, a girl with a life threatening medical condition and a unique wish to meet Bigfoot.