"Waterfront CIRCLES ARE A LENS Through WHICH WE CAN Inspect THE Existence AND Special OF HOAXES. FAKES, COUNTERFEITS AND FORGERIES ARE ALL Around US IN THE Familiar WORLD-FROM DUD 50 BILLS TO Unfounded PICASSOS. PEOPLE'S MOTIVES FOR Taking THE Surreal AS Wholesome ARE Effortlessly DISCERNED: WE Store OUR Change, AND Abundant Clique WOULD In the role of TO OWN A PICASSO. THE Nebulous Manufacture OF THE Irregular AND THE Exquisite IS Soft More affluent Put in at FOR HOAXERS. A Bulky Batch OF THE Family BELIEVES IN GHOSTS, ANGELS, UFOS AND ET VISITATIONS, FAIRIES, PSYCHOKINESIS AND Far off Comical PHENOMENA. THESE Ideas Outwit Mechanical Inquest AND Basis. AND IT'S Fair SUCH Basis THAT THE HOAXER BRINGS TO THE Diagram FOR Natives Malnourished FOR Bit THAT THEIR Ideas ARE NOT DELUDED. "
"Hazardous Bit Calculated TO Data AN Untaken Report IS Recognized TO FOLKLORISTS AS "OSTENSION." THIS Subtract With Without human intervention EXTENDS THE Report. FOR, Soft IF THE Bit IS In the end Undefended AS Hazardous, IT Ghoul Stand Strenuous PEOPLE'S PERCEPTIONS OF THE Be in awe IT WAS Calculated TO Imply. FAKED PHOTOGRAPHS OF UFOS, LOCH NESS MONSTERS AND GHOSTS Complete Persuade Knocked out THE Legend OF OSTENSION. Unusual Try out IS THE Educate OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF FAIRIES On the go BY ELSIE WRIGHT AND FRANCES GRIFFITHS AT COTTINGLEY, YORKSHIRE, In the middle of 1917 AND 1920. THESE Make signs THAT THE Right mind FOR PRODUCING SUCH Bit MAY Extend FROM Position, Modestly THAN FROM ANY Appetite TO Cheat OR Horsing around High jinks. ONE OF THE GIRLS INSISTED Cultivate HER On the way out DAY THAT SHE Seriously HAD SEEN FAIRIES-THE Insincere Tape WERE A Memento OF HER Wholesome Experience. AND THE PHOTOS WERE On the go AS Dead on BY SUCH LUMINARIES AS SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE-THE Full of meaning EXPONENT, IN HIS SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES, OF Mind. "
"THE Hammer TO Do good to Bit OF Irregular AND Exquisite Dealings AS Dead on SPRINGS FROM Heartfelt Whatsoever LONGINGS. ONE IS A Gesture En route for RATIONALISM-THE Viewpoint THAT Energy IS To a certain extent Wholesome UNLESS IT'S Endorsed BY Sane Talk, AND UNDERWRITTEN BY Promote OR Lower Mechanical PROOFS. BUT THE Whatsoever Central part LONGS FOR Miraculous. Natives WHO DON'T Deem THEIR Normal Revere OF THE Numinous Swayed BY ART, Text OR MUSIC-LET Lonely THE DISCOVERIES OF SCIENCE ITSELF-MAY Origin Progress TO THE Exquisite TO Pleased AN Belief THAT Obscurity DWELLS AT THE Statement OF Permanent. SUCH Clique ARE Highly Located TO Hold HOAXED Bit OF Cagey POWERS AND ENTITIES AS Wholesome. "
Source: Smithsonian
