A new book claims that a Jewish-Italian merchant named Jacob d'Ancona sailed in to the Chinese port city of Zaitun in 1271, four years before Marco Polo arrived in China. He infiltrated high society and engaged in political battles so ferocious he had to flee for his life after six months. He wrote a dramatic account of his travels. His diaries are so filled with anti-Christian attacks that his heirs kept his writings a secret.
Many scholars claim the manuscript is a hoax.
Or, consider that a bunch of documents recently came to light that were apparently marked up with President John F. Kennedy's distinctive scrawl. They showed that Marilyn Monroe had blackmailed the late president. The papers even hint that Kennedy asked J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI, to arrange Monroe's murder. You are right. It is now clear the documents were forged by someone.