All I can say is....people must have really wanted to believe:
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1 posted on
09/27/2018 7:05:53 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
More than Dianne Feinstein’s fairy hoax will be worth on Monday.
To: BenLurkin
I’ve always wondered about that. Maybe it was a mix of the spirit of the times, when there was a great interest in the ‘supernatural’ and in alternative spiritual ideas, and the fact that photography was relatively new and many people didn’t know much about it (though the father should have been less credulous...)
It seems to me those photos would go for more than that...
3 posted on
09/27/2018 7:11:16 PM PDT by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it")
To: BenLurkin
They did! Those are VERY famous photos!
Heck, they believed in the PILTDOWN MAN, around the same time, as well.
4 posted on
09/27/2018 7:12:16 PM PDT by
nopardons
To: BenLurkin
Photography was new in those days, and people didn’t have the concept of its being manipulated. Also, they did want to believe. “Real life” was World War I, and it was horrible. That’s why Arthur Conan Doyle wanted to believe.
I’m surprised the Doyle connection didn’t drive the price higher. Where were the Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts?
5 posted on
09/27/2018 7:12:50 PM PDT by
Tax-chick
("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
The existence of fairies in the mainstream media is no hoax.
6 posted on
09/27/2018 7:13:33 PM PDT by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: SunkenCiv
7 posted on
09/27/2018 7:14:10 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
we have our own fairies in West Hollywood..
8 posted on
09/27/2018 7:17:07 PM PDT by
max americana
(Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
To: BenLurkin
They wear boots man, you gotta believe me...
9 posted on
09/27/2018 7:26:14 PM PDT by
Mathews
(Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
To: BenLurkin
You can go to New Orleans or San Francisco and get lots of pictures of Fairies.
10 posted on
09/27/2018 7:27:57 PM PDT by
PAR35
To: BenLurkin
One of them appears daily at noon on Fox News.
11 posted on
09/27/2018 7:34:36 PM PDT by
beethovenfan
(I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
To: BenLurkin
12 posted on
09/27/2018 7:45:36 PM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(The MSM is in the business of creating a fake version of reality for political reasons.)
To: BenLurkin
14 posted on
09/27/2018 8:03:59 PM PDT by
Rebelbase
(Consensus isn't science.)
To: BenLurkin
Dakwanda will sell you real pictures for a fraction of that.
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
They did.
The Great War had killed so many young men and then the Flu came through and killed off even more. Entire families were all but wiped out.
We really can not imagine death on the scale they were dealing with. And Europe had already mostly driven out Christianity to the point where it was all form and no substance.
They pinned their faith on the new "science" and gadgets.
It proved a hollow reed.
28 posted on
09/27/2018 10:39:27 PM PDT by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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