Case file 038The Unexplained
The Leaping Terror of London
Tales of a leaping figure who breathed blue flames spread across Victorian London, and an aristocrat was blamed for the terror.
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Hoaxes
Case file 037The Unexplained
Mystery of the Enjuin Mermaid
A Japanese temple’s mermaid, said to have been caught in the eighteenth century, finally gave up its secrets to science.
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Case file 031Culture & Legends
Alternative 3 - Hoax or Reality?
A television drama about Britain’s scientists escaping to Mars was always fiction, but the hoax outlived every attempt to explain it.
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Case file 025The Unexplained
Sherlock Holmes and the Fairies
Two Yorkshire cousins cut fairies out of paper and convinced the creator of Sherlock Holmes, then could not agree on how the joke had worked.
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Case file 021Forgotten Histories
A Wonder from Godalming
Mary Toft’s supposed rabbit births fooled the king’s surgeons and made her a national joke, but the doctors wrote down far more than she ever got to say.
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Case file 017Culture & Legends
Turn Me On Dead Man
A rumour that Paul McCartney had died and been replaced turned Beatles albums into puzzles, with fans scouring lyrics and sleeves for clues.
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