In December 1971, kangaroo hunters on the Nullabor Plain in Australia saw a half-naked woman living in the wild with kangaroos. Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper The News immediately dispatched a...

In December 1971, kangaroo hunters on the Nullabor Plain in Australia saw a half-naked woman living in the wild with kangaroos. Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper The News immediately dispatched a photographer, and for weeks, virtually every English-language newspaper in the world ran stories about this feral creature. It turned out she was a 17-year-old model performing in a hoax thought up by hotel managers to draw tourists to the area.