Infamous fakes of famous artefacts throughout history from Turin Shroud to alien autopsy
dailystar.co.ukUFO that had crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. A decade later entrepreneur Ray Santilli admitted he’d staged it as a reconstruction – albeit of real footage he claimed to have seen.
Back in the 19th century a figure, supposedly of a mummified mermaid found near Fiji, popped up and was later exhibited by famous circus owner PT Barnum.
Similar finds indicated that the mythical creatures were real – until they turned out to be made from part monkey, part fish tail and papier mache.Photos taken by two cousins, Else Wright, 16, and Frances Griffiths, nine, in Cottingley, West Yorks, caused a stir in 1917 when they seemed to feature dancing fairies.
Even Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a believer. Eventually, in the 1980s, the pair admitted they’d used cardboard cut outs to fake the snaps.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.In 1869 workers on a farm in Cardiff, New York, US, dug up what appeared to be the body of a petrified 10ft giant from a bygone age.
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