An April Fool's Day prankster has sold the mummified remains of a "dead fairy" for nearly £300.
Magicians' prop maker Dan Baines, 31, from London, was flooded with e-mails on 1 April when he published pictures of his creation online.
He claimed a dog walker had found the tiny corpse at Firestone Hill in Duffield, Derbyshire.
Mr Baines, formerly of Derby, later admitted it was a hoax, but sold the fairy on an internet site for £280.
He said: "There are still a lot of people who believe it's real. It's started quite a lot of conspiracy theories. One claims that the fact I revealed it was a hoax was because of government pressure to stop people digging the ground up."
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