Dan Baines who designs illusions for magicians built a model of a mummified fairy as an April Fools Day prank.
After posting photos to a web sight he received 20,000 hits a day from true believers including some warnings he was in danger for violating the fairies grave.
After exposing the hoax he continued to receive emails from believers who felt that the hoax story was itself a hoax.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/engla...6514283.stm
After posting photos to a web sight he received 20,000 hits a day from true believers including some warnings he was in danger for violating the fairies grave.
After exposing the hoax he continued to receive emails from believers who felt that the hoax story was itself a hoax.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/engla...6514283.stm
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Re: Fairy Mummy a Hoax - True Believers Still Believe its Real
Sat, October 6, 2007 - 11:14 PMAnd probably, Charles Fort would have said: "People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels."
