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* William Hope Hodgson's "[[Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder]]" is an [[Occult Detective]] whose stories sometimes feature real supernatural events and sometimes hoaxes. In the story [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Horse_of_the_Invisible "The Horse of the Invisible"] a murderous ghost turns out to be a hoax by a human would-be killer. Until... {{spoiler|''"It's not me! My God! It's not me! My God! It's not me."''}}
* In ''Expiration Date'' by [[Tim Powers]], a psychiatrist decided to emulate a seance as part of a group therapy session; all hell broke loose, and she lost her license. She spends most of the novel discovering that ghosts are real and she had inadvertently called up a few. The main protagonist colorfully compares her actions to an anthropologist re-enacting the quaint tribal ritual of loading a "bullet" into a "gun" and pulling the "trigger".
* A book based on ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'', set in Romania, involved an apparent return of Dracula. It was staged by a THRUSH agent. Except ... '''some''' of his [[Mook]]s were taken down by someone '''else''', and at the end, Solo and Kuryakin found a message which thanked them for defeating the villains who'd disturbed the message-writer's "peace."
* One of Leslie Charteris' short stories featuring [[The Saint]] involves a villain faking attacks by the Loch Ness Monster. The villain is then eaten by the Loch Ness Monster. Really.▼
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* A lot of cryptozoological documentaries end with a moody shot of the supposed monster's habitat. Perhaps they're hoping for a [[Real Life]] version of this?
** If so, they're expecting something ''[[Haunted Technology|really]]'' weird, given that a documentary is the product of editing, and hence [[Fridge Logic|it's their decision to stick footage they know to be monster-free at the end]]. (Of course, the film may have been shot in order, no editing involved. Or they may hope to evoke this trope for the ''audience'', as if the film has [[No Ending]], and maybe the monster is Real After All… [[Behind the Black]].)
=== [[Literature]] ===
▲* One of Leslie Charteris' short stories featuring [[The Saint]] involves a villain faking attacks by the Loch Ness Monster. The villain is then eaten by the Loch Ness Monster. Really.
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