Two Girls with Paper Cutouts Convinced the Sherlock Holmes Creator That Fairies Were Real
In 1917, two young girls convinced photography experts and Arthur Conan Doyle himself that they had captured real fairies on camera using nothing but paper cutouts and hatpins. Their simple hoax fooled the world for over 60 years, proving that even the creator of Sherlock Holmes could fall victim to wishful thinking.
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