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Infamous fakes of famous artefacts throughout history from Turin Shroud to alien autopsy
UFO 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.