Weird and Strange Jenny on 01 Oct 2007 10:40 pm
Butterfly Man - fairy pictures
If you love reading bedtime stories such as Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, then you certainly love those fairy ladies who are so beautiful and elegant. But, do you believe fairies actually exist in this world?
Check out the following picture.
The following picture was sent by a friend of mine. I got shocked and couldn’t believe my eyes. The “police evidence” wording on the envelop further illustrates that it’s genuine! Anyway, I Googled and found that it’s fake… what a relief. 
They are just an April Fools prank by Dab Baines who designs “strange and unique” illusions for stage magicians.
The story of the mummified fairy’s discovery was first posted in March 2007 on Baines’ Website, Lebanon Circle Magic Company, where it attracted as many as 20,000 hits in a single day. After confessing to the hoax he sold the fake artifact on eBay for £280. Many people, he says, continue to insist it’s real.
The prank calls to mind the infamous Cottingley Fairies hoax of 1917, wherein a pair of young British girls with too much time on their hands concocted fake photographs of tiny, humanoid fairies flitting through the air. The photos were vetted as authentic by none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes series, and received an inordinate amount of publicity from a credulous press. It wasn’t until 66 years later, in 1983, that one of the girls confessed that the fairy images had been hand-drawn and suspended in the air via hatpins to be photographed.
If you are good in Adobe Photoshop, you can create your own fairy photo, maybe Spiderman? or perhaps a beautiful Cinderella and use it to amaze innocent and unsuspecting people. Haha… that’s fun!