Hoaxes.

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HollyGolightly

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I wrestled in high school (note: but not very well). One of my best friends growing up was a national champion wrestler and an Olympic hopeful until something bad happened. To the wrestling community back then, "pro wrestling" was a farce not even to be talked about.


Hoaxes. How could I forget?? I'm in the very town of the Balloon Boy of a few years ago, if you remember the story of that dizzy family.
Balloon boy was the very first hoax I could think of. Do you know those people? Are they weird?
 

Bryan James

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How about Sasquatch?while I can't stand to watch more than a minute or so of these sasquatch "search for" TV shows, every now and then you come across them..somebody like this freaking guy above starts talking about an area " looking squatchy",well, that is about all I can take. I think the Bigfoot phenomenon and the alien UFO stuff are probably the two big ones for hoaxes..
 

kingzeppelin

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Cottingley Fairies
In 1917, teenage cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths were staying with their aunt in Cottingley, a village in England. While exploring the area by themselves, the girls took five stunning photographs that appeared to show themselves in the company of fairies. The pictures created a fire-storm of controversy.
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Sir Conan Arthur Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was the most famous person to be taken in by the photographs. Doyle was already a believer in psychic phenomena and quickly hailed the pictures as genuine. In 1920, he wrote a magazine article about the photographs, leading to widespread exposure for Frances and Elsie's pictures.

Others noticed several problems with the photographs. Some of the fairies had contemporary clothes and hairstyles. Not to mention that they looked suspiciously like they were made out of paper. ..
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Both Wright and Griffiths stuck to their story for many years. In 1983, they finally admitted to the hoax in a magazine interview. The fairies had been cardboard cut-outs propped up with hat-pins. However, both still claimed to have seen fairies and Griffiths even insisted that the fifth and final photograph was genuine. Griffiths died in 1986. Wright passed away in 1988.

Today, it seems obvious that the “fairies” in all of these pictures are just paper cut-outs. The girls were certainly clever in the way that they posed the fairies and took the photographs. But how could so many people have been fooled at the time?

One theory is that the believers were desperate for something inspirational in the wake of World War I. Many people longed to believe in something fanciful and magical after four years of horror. The Cottingley fairies filled an emotional void.

Seems bizarre that Conan Doyle should be fooled when he was responsible for that famous Sherlock Holmes quote..
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
 

GNTLGNT

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I bought the recording when I was a teen. If memory serves, they did have information at the beginning letting people know it was a radio play, but apparently people tuned in during the broadcast and didn't know it was fiction.
...that is exactly what happened...there was a distinct disclaimer throughout the broadcast, but just like now-people only hear what they want to hear....