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Speaker 1: In nineteen twenty, a magazine article announced something incredible. Real

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Speaker 1: fairies had been photographed. Two young girls playing by the

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Speaker 1: creek near their house in Cottingley, England, had been surrounded

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Speaker 1: by fairies and had been able to snap pictures to

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Speaker 1: prove it. That magazine article announcing their discovery it was

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Speaker 1: written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Speaker 2: If you don't recognize his name, you probably know the

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Speaker 2: name of his most famous character, Sherlock Holmes. Yes, the

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Speaker 2: man who invented literature's most brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Detective was fooled by.

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Speaker 2: Two girls into thinking fairies were real.

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Speaker 1: The thing which you probably know is that fairies aren't real,

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Speaker 1: but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wanted to believe they could be,

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Speaker 1: and so he found ways to dismiss all of the

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Speaker 1: logical ways the photos of the Cottingley fairies could have

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Speaker 1: been faked.

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Speaker 2: History is filled with hoaxes, people coming up with scams

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Speaker 2: and tricks, sometimes for profit but sometimes just for fun.

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Speaker 2: In an era of misinformation, the ability to think critically

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Speaker 2: and to understand what's real and what isn't seems more

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Speaker 2: important than ever.

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Speaker 1: Hoax is a new podcast for me Danish Warts The

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Speaker 1: creator of Noble Blood and me Lizzie Logan.

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Speaker 2: Every episode, we'll explore one of the most audacious and

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Speaker 2: ambitious tricks in history, from the fake Shakespeare's to balloon boys,

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Speaker 2: all trying to answer the question why we believe what

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Speaker 2: we believe.

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Speaker 1: The first episode of Hoax is available on August fourth.

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Speaker 1: Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you

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Speaker 1: get your podcasts.