Introducing: Hoax!

Hoax! is a new show from Dana Schwartz (Noble Blood) and Lizzie Logan (Vulture, Reductress). Listen to the first episode on August 4th.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
In nineteen twenty, a magazine article announced something incredible. Real
fairies had been photographed. Two young girls playing by the
creek near their house in Cottingley, England, had been surrounded
by fairies and had been able to snap pictures to
prove it. That magazine article announcing their discovery it was

(00:22):
written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
If you don't recognize his name, you probably know the
name of his most famous character, Sherlock Holmes. Yes, the
man who invented literature's most brilliant.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Detective was fooled by.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Two girls into thinking fairies were real.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
The thing which you probably know is that fairies aren't real,
but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wanted to believe they could be,
and so he found ways to dismiss all of the
logical ways the photos of the Cottingley fairies could have
been faked.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
History is filled with hoaxes, people coming up with scams
and tricks for profit, but sometimes just for fun. In
an era of misinformation, the ability to think critically and
to understand what's real and what isn't seems more important
than ever.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Hoax is a new podcast for me. Danish Warts, the
creator of Noble Blood and me Lizzie Logan.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Every episode, we'll explore one of the most audacious and
ambitious tricks in history, from the fake Shakespeare's to balloon boys,
all trying to answer the question why we believe what
we believe.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
The first episode of Hoax is available on August fourth.
Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you
get your podcasts.