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From Cautionary Tales: Fairies or Fakes?

World's Greatest Con

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Harry houdine spent the last part of his life debunking claims of pseudo science in the paranormal. He would ruin a seance midway through, connecting with the spirit world to prove that it was just fake magic tricks. Sir arthur conan doyle, however, very much believed in the supernatural. And you got to understand that beginning of the twentieth century, there was a weird sense of anything being possible. This is a preview of a true story of frances and elice, two english girls who claim to have photographic evidence of fairies living at the bottom of the garden behind their family home. It's two kids playing with a camera - but tim explores the question of how

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