The Story of the Cottingley Fairies Hoax

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  @_its_lunar_ · 4 years ago

  You claim fairies aren’t real yet there’s a gorgeously dressed one right in the first frame, curious

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  @Redem10 · 4 years ago

  Could you just imagine how the algorythms would have rot Arthur Conan Doyle's mind if he had access to social media back then.

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• BA

  @babyblue3717 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I used to see fairies, gnomes and nature spirits as a kid. I believed in it 100%, after all seeing is believing, right? Then as I grew up i started to see ghosts, demons and ugly things. A spiritualist relative paraded me around to all her spiritualist friends for years, convincing me that not being able to sleep and dissociating 24hrs a day, barely being able to function in reality, was just the consequences of my "gift". Turns out I'm schizophrenic. I've been taking antipsychotics since i was 17 and this relative has refused to talk to me ever since, claiming my family was "killing a beautiful thing". It wasn't beautiful, it was terrifying and the worst years of my life, but yeah she still thinks I should just abandon my medication and let myself go crazy to feed her expectations. These things can and do go wrong frequently.

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  @ashleylunette2187 · 4 years ago

  Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini having a falling-out over the existence of fairies is the exact kind of thing I come to this channel for (and Kaz's outfits✨)

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  @panqueque445 · 4 years ago

  Photo expert: &quot;You see these photos are real. See this blurring? That means the fairies were moving when the photo was taken.&quot;<br>Conan Doyle: <b>gasp</b><br>Little girl: &quot;Bruh that&apos;s just the paper moving in the wind&quot;

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  @whitecinnamon · 4 years ago (edited)

  It shocked me learning that Elsie Wright was such a talented artist and people usually just gloss over it. That woman entered art school being 13, then worked in a photo lab and made hand painted cards. Can you imagine being good at watercolours and analog photography of the time at 16 y/o only for people to remember you for a joke you made when you were a little girl? I would get out of the grave just to slap someone.<br>Also, loved this video &lt;3

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  @FurbyFullyLoaded · 4 years ago (edited)

  If I had a nickel for every time a British author of a worldwide popular book series developed an irrational obsession that tarnished their reputation and alienated people I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice. <br>🕵️🧚‍♀️🧙‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️

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  @alicemarks7468 · 4 years ago

  when I was in first grade a girl who went to my church literally convinced me and a bunch of other girls that we WERE fairies and had to run away together to go to fairyland, i literally wrote a goodbye letter to my parents explaining everything lmfaooo

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  @sarahwatts7152 · 4 years ago

  I just love that they were so sensitive about these peoples&apos; grief that they waited until the parties concerned had died

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  @ouronlyhopepun · 4 years ago

  Arthur Conan Doyle showing up where people least expect him in history is my favorite thing. He basically launched his writing career by making up a fake account of what happened to the Mary Celeste which is why we still talk about that particular ghost ship today (and why people think it was spelled Marie Celeste).

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  @Spanky100-37 · 4 years ago

  We had a similar hoax in Mexico recently where a guy said he had a corpse of a fairy in a jar. People would line up around the block to pay to see it. Turns out it was just a tiny doll of the X-men character Pixie dipped in formaldehyde. It would be a pretty funny resolution except for the fact that he was killed shortly after.

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  @derekbrou · 4 years ago

  I love that in the end when they finally confessed and explained they were just having a little fun but these grown men took it so seriously, they stop short and say &quot;well except for that last one- that one was real...&quot; They were still screwin&apos; with us! All the way to the end, still getting grown men to question reality. My heroes

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