A Glamour and a Mystery
Criminal
The Coming of the Fairies
In the 1970s, an author named Fred Geddings was doing some research for a book he was writing about 19th century illustrations. He came across a drawing that looked familiar in an old children's book called Princess Mary's Gift Book. It was of three dancing fairies, and it looked almost exactly like a photograph he'd seen before. Around the same time, the magician James Randy, also known as The Amazing Randy, had the photographs analyzed with an image enhancer used to detect fake UFO photographs. And he identified what he thought was a very important giveaway.
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