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>The thing that is important is that, to my eyes and I think to a typical person of this era, these photos of girls with cutouts of fairies look like ... exactly that. When I first saw these pictures, I couldn't believe anyone could be fooled by them. But this period, circa 1917, was a period when photos only recently had appear and so only recently had photo fakes. So the skill to spot the difference had only recently appeared.

Tons of people believe in crude "ufo" and "bigfoot" and "chupacabras" and "lock ness" and such photos, well into today though.



People believe in the Falkirk Wheel, even though it's clearly bad CGI!


Loch Ness.


Nitpick, but, isn’t Loch Ness just the name of the lake?


How do you know the lake is real?


I've seen it. It could have been a very convincing fake, but.. if that doesn't count, then nothing does.


How do I know you're not in on the conspiracy.


Maybe it was just an oversized puddle, and not actually a lake.


The fake water there is very cold.


Amazingly no, the lake is called Ness, Loch just means "lake" in the old regional dialect.


And Frankenstein was the name of the doctor.


You can think of Frankenstein's monster as the doctor's son, so they would also be a Frankenstein.


Ohh nice one :)




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