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Jason R Ward

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How Two Girls Convinced Arthur Conan Doyle That Fairies Were Real

In December 1920, readers of The Strand Magazine were presented with an astonishing claim. Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, believed that two girls in Yorkshire had photographed fairies.

The article appeared under the ti...

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The Fake Town That Became Real: The Strange Story of Agloe

How a copyright trap escaped from a map and why phantom places still appear

The curious tale of Agloe

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The Fake Fossils That Fooled a University Professor for a Year

Some of the “lying stones” illustrated in Johann Beringer’s Lithographiae Wirceburgensis (1726)

In 1725, Johann Beringer began receiving some remarkable stones.

They had been found near Eibelstadt, a small town outside Würzburg in what is...

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The Alchemist Who Tried to Make Gold From Urine

The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone by Joseph Wright (Public Domain)

In 1669, a German alchemist called Hennig Brand spent several highly unpleasant days boiling down a vast quantity of human urine. He did this in the name o...

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From Byron’s Bear to Dickens' Raven: The Strange Pets of Famous Eccentrics

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