most so-called unexplained phenomena seem to be hoaxes

[blueaguave]

I have been reading through a couple old books I have, visiting snopes and fortean times web sites, etc.. In my opinion, there is less than meets the eye with many so-called phenomena.
Like the Bermuda Triangle, that was a big hoax..no more planes crashed there than anywhere else..then Charles Berlitz, grandson of the inventor of Berlitz Language Training method, wrote a hyped up book essentially exagerrating a couple mundane crashes into some strange phenomena. He also wrote a book which helped fuel the Roswell flames. Roswell is an out and out tourist trap. It is a town nobody would visit if not for these schemes and scams. The Air Force report looks very credible to me. I tip my hat to the local rancher who sells buckets of "space rocks" for $20 to idiots. And of course, the UFO diner serves $9 hamburgers to visitors. God bless em, one and all.
"Crop circles", well 2 guys named Doug and Dave admitted to dreaming it up as a prank in a pub years ago. They just took it too far and kept doing, until they confessed in 1991.
Bigfoot, about a year the family revealed the father did it to scare people away from their property (probably had the opposite effect).
I have to admit, I used to fall for some of these, and maybe not all are scams. But a lot of it, these people are just good entrepreneurs.