Posing as a US Army Green Beret, William James Clarke took over disaster response efforts and even led a heroic rescue operation. But behind the uniform was an imposter with a checkered criminal past.
Few figures were more closely watched than the children of King Henry VIII. But amid the political chaos of the era, a bold imposter emerged, claiming to be Princess Mary Tudor.
Michael Romanoff claimed to be a member of Russia’s deposed Romanov royal family, but no one seemed to mind that he was no prince.
You shouldn't be able to walk in off the street and get a job as a psychiatrist in a mental institution, but that's exactly what legendary imposter Gert Postel did with one frighteningly simple move.
When an exotic foreign princess showed up in an English village, it marked the beginning of one of history's wildest hoaxes.
Convincing his wife he was a Rockefeller was devious enough, but the real shock came when DNA evidence connected him to an old murder.
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