It's an even better conspiracy if they show you the fake

[Walsingham]

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."

 

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/6545667.stm

[HoonDing]

Looks pretty grim. I guess there was a forest fire in Cottingley?

[Walsingham]

Looks pretty grim. I guess there was a forest fire in Cottingley?

 

Oh god, what if there's some sort of horrifying Vietnam style war happening in Cottingley?

 

There's some imp in aviator sunglasses saying "Brownie don't surf"

[Monte Carlo]

I'd love to sell the corpses of the unicorns, fairies, sprites and pixies at the bottom of my garden. Sadly, the claymore mines eviscerate them into a fine paste, thus rendering them unsuitable for trading purposes.

[Walsingham]

Would it work on toast?

 

EDIT: I just found out that apparently that's what Gentleman's Relish is.

 

Edited May 7, 2013 by Walsingham

[JFSOCC]

nonsense, the Lower Elements Police Recon team would have recovered the remains ages ago.

Edited May 8, 2013 by JFSOCC