Inventing sources: I claim that my great-grandfather, Alan Francis Coogan, a former vaudevillian and bar owner, was an agent of The Shadow and connected him with the radio station and the pulp publishers Street and Smith.  Coogan died of alcoholism in 1938, but I claim that he was poisoned--as the real-life Harry Charlot was in 1935; Charlot was a young scriptwriter who is  credited in histories of the radio show with creating the name "The Shadow.”  Because my great-grandfather gave his life in The Shadow’s service, I am able to call upon his organization’s aid, which gives me access to various restricted archives in which I find sources that others have no access to.  Dennis Power and I used these sources in a series of articles on John Carter.
	Misrepresent published work: In his hoax biography Tarzan Alive Farmer claims that Burroughs used a form of coding to preserve the identities of the real people they wrote about, but that the coding contains clues that direct the diligent researcher through Burke’s Peerage and Extinct Peerage, and that anyone with enough hard work can follow the clues and track down Tarzan’s real identity, as Farmer claims to have done in his interview with Lord Greystoke.   WN scholars have tried this with Burke’s Peerage and it doesn’t work.