Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, fell for one of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century when he became convinced that the "fairy photographs", taken by two girls from Yorkshire in the 1920s, were real. Mary Losure explores: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/sir-arthur-and-the-fairies #AprilFools #hoax #photography #fairies
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@publicdomainrev that is quite a story. Thank you for posting. Reminds me if Dickens' belief in spontaneous combustion.
