buffy said:

Night night. I’m off to bed to read. I’m reading an essay on the Cottingley fairies at the moment. It’s Quite Interesting. I have known about them for years, but this is drawing all the stuff together. It’s a good yarn.

“The Cottingley Fairies refer to a famous photo hoax perpetrated by two cousins, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, in 1917 Cottingley, England, who claimed they had captured real fairies in photos they took. The photographs, which showed paper cutouts of fairies attached to hatpins, were believed to be genuine by many, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who published them in 1920. The cousins eventually confessed to the hoax in 1983, admitting that all but one of the photos were faked, though Frances claimed the final image was real”

Ooohhh.