Staten Island Ferry Disaster Memorial Museum

{{Short description|2016 art installation commemorating a fake event}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2017}}

The Staten Island Ferry Disaster Memorial Museum was a 2016 art installation hoax created by artist Joe Reginella. The memorial purported to commemorate an attack by a gigantic octopus on the Staten Island Ferry at 4 a.m. on November 22, 1963.{{cite news|last=Kay |first=Mary |url=https://nypost.com/2016/09/25/artist-fools-tourists-with-monument-to-giant-octopus-attack-on-staten-island-ferry/ |title=Artist fools tourists with monument to giant-octopus attack on Staten Island Ferry |newspaper=New York Post |date=September 19, 2016 |access-date=September 26, 2016}}{{cite web|last=Liotta |first=Paul |url=http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/09/artist_fools_tourists_with_myt.html |title=Artist fools tourists with mythical 'Staten Island Ferry Disaster' |website=SILive.com |date=September 25, 2016 |access-date=September 26, 2016}}{{cite web|author= |url=http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/09/26/staten-island-octopus-fake-story/ |title=Man Plays Joke With Fake Staten Island Ferry Octopus Attack Story |website=CBS New York |date=September 26, 2016 |access-date=June 11, 2021}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/01/new-york-staten-island-ferry-octopus-attack-fake-monument|title=New York monument honors victims of giant octopus attack that never occurred|agency=Associated Press|date=October 1, 2016|work=The Guardian|access-date=May 14, 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=March 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200323040756/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/01/new-york-staten-island-ferry-octopus-attack-fake-monument|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/09/26/staten-island-octopus-fake-story/|title=Man Plays Joke On New York With Fake Staten Island Ferry Octopus Attack Story|date=September 26, 2016|website=CBS New York|access-date=May 14, 2019|archive-date=May 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514185040/https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/09/26/staten-island-octopus-fake-story/|url-status=live}}