An American cigar maker inspired by a biblical passage was behind the Cardiff Giant - one of the greatest hoaxes in American history. On October 16, 1869, workers digging a well behind the barn of a ...

In the musical Barnum, a song lyric compels you to "join the circus like you wanted to, when you were a kid." In the family friendly new musical The Giant Hoax, a young farm girl named Emily will do ...

Two of the recently named Seven American Wonders of the Fortean World - a list of the most famously strange landmarks in the United States - are in Upstate New York. One of them is Central New York's ...

145 Years Ago: On October 16th 1869, a 10-foot tall, 3000 pound "petrified giant" was discovered on the farm of William Newell in Cardiff, New York, just south of Syracuse by some men hired to dig a ...

In the latter half of the 1800s, a giant was found in rural New York. It fooled nearly no one, for nearly no amount of time, but it is one of the more famous hoaxes in history. It served as an ...

This Nov. 10, 1975, El Paso Herald-Post article written by Nancy Hamilton recounts El Paso's connection with what has been called "America's Greatest Hoax": The room was dimly lighted. People spoke in ...

COOPERSTOWN - The Farmers’ Museum is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the “Cardiff Giant,” a 10 foot-long stone man that was unearthed on Oct. 16, 1869, in Cardiff, New York. The event will take ...

One of the great things about e-mail is that it provides me with so many constructive suggestions. “Here’s a way to use the old Hess’s lot and make a few bucks for the city,” a reader wrote the other ...

Cardiff Giant, the hospitality group behind The Hudson and The Churchill, has been very busy of late. The Daily Dish just got word that the group is set to take over the former Voyeur Nightclub space ...