Extraordinary claims. Ordinary investigations.

To demonstrate the capabilities of a cell phone model with a high resolution camera, Nokia asked a noted photographer to capture fairies. Not real ones, but cutout small fairies posing on idyllic sceneries, on an adorable reference to the Cottingley fairies.

The contemporary fairies are prettier — and so much anatomically correct they come naked — but as the cell phone camera captures much better images than what was possible almost a century ago, they do look obviously fake, my dear Watson.

The old ones also looked clearly fake, but those were other times. If only people strived to hoax fairy images rather than UFOs, we would at least have a more artistically pleasing corpus of evidence to wonder by. Not just insects.

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