As an avid reader of books on paranormal phenomena back in the ’70s and ’80s, I discovered the story of the Cottingley Fairies when I was still young enough to
The world of cryptozoology, indeed of the paranormal, Forteana, and world of the weird in general, is so littered with photographic and video hoaxes that they have forever poisoned the viability of such evidence within the field. Indeed, photographs have become nearly useless as evidence in cryptozoology, any potentially genuine photos lost within a quagmire
Following personal tragedy, the creator of that most rational of literary figures, Sherlock Holmes, developed an obsession with spiritualism. Fiona Snailham and Anna Maria Barry Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s belief in spiritualism, talking to the dead. and fairies
Throughout the years many people have perpetrated hoaxes - often for publicity, and sometimes just for the hell of it. Of all the hoaxes through history,