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'Best Pranks in History' Shorts Suggestions are OPEN until 9/8!
🕑 Added 2025-09-01 17:30:02 +0000 UTCHello Historians, our next Extra History Shorts theme is Best Pranks in History! Best Pranks in History are in plentiful supply around the w
Hello Historians, our next Extra History Shorts theme is Best Pranks in History!
Best Pranks in History are in plentiful supply around the world and we wanna hear your most bizarre suggestions, strangest recommendations, and exceptionally peculiar submissions for our next YouTube Short!
Enter YOUR suggestions for the topic HERE in this form now!
Some notes about suggestions:
Suggestions should feature content before the 1930s
If a suggestion we encounter only has enough research material/production scope for a one-off episode instead of a short, we file it in a separate list to reference later when we are planning to schedule a one-off episode between series (this is true for every survey we do).
Only one suggestion per person, please! Multiple suggestions from the same person during any given survey period will be manually removed. Extra History Suggestion Survey is OPEN until 9/8.
We can't wait to read all your suggested topics!
Comments
Lexi Lunarpaw
I gotta learn to read... Of course you aren't going to read this comment i was supposed to use the form and it was supposed to be before 1930... I submitted the best one I could find online involving fake Prehistoric Skeletons Also if you still have my Bean Head could you send an Email with it i have since lost the original images Edit: NVM i found the file all is good
Rossum
Horace de Vere Cole seemed to be a master of pranks, including disguising himself and friends as a delegation from Abyssinia and toured the HMS Dreadnought.
Lexi Lunarpaw
We got to talk about the infamous Sphgetti trees of 57: Spaghetti trees: The BBC television programme Panorama ran a hoax in 1957, purporting to show the Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees. They claimed that the despised pest, the spaghetti weevil, had been eradicated. A large number of people contacted the BBC wanting to know how to cultivate their own spaghetti trees. It was, in fact, partially filmed in St Albans.[1] The editor of Panorama at the time, Michael Peacock, approved the idea, which was pitched by freelance camera operator Charles de Jaeger. Peacock told the BBC in 2014 that he gave de Jaeger a budget of £100. Peacock said the respected Panorama anchorman Richard Dimbleby knew they were using his authoritativeness to make the joke work. He said Dimbleby loved the idea and went at it with relish.[2] Decades later CNN called this broadcast "the biggest hoax that any reputable news establishment ever pulled".[3
