The Fairy Hoax Believed by Arthur Canon Doyle

The hoax was made up by two children; Elsie and Frances who somehow managed to fool many people, generations in fact. In 1917, they took photos of themselves with fairies. Some people believed then that  the Supernatural existed including Elsie's mother. She had had attended a lecture on spiritualism and showed the photos to the people there. Quickly the photos were circulating the Spiritualist community and were shown as evidencing the Supernatural.

Elsie with two fairies

Another with a gnome

In 1981, one of the girls confessed that the fairies were not real that paper cutouts from a book, too bad.

I bet they had a good laugh that so many people believed them!



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Sources:
The Case of the Cottingley Fairies: http://www.randi.org/library/cottingley/
The Cottingley Fairies: http://hoaxes.org/photo_database/image/the_cottingley_fairies/