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@berzgaming1039

2 жыл бұрын

no

@dafttool

2 жыл бұрын

Lol The Weird History channel did this same story today. Y’all posted at almost the same time

@dudepool7530

2 жыл бұрын

Boycott the Magic Spoon ads! I refuse to watch any videos sponsored by "Ripoff Cereal". No "allegedly" for them. $10/box is a ripoff, no matter what kind of cereal it is.

@kylben

2 жыл бұрын

@@dudepool7530 Not to mention the cost of the heavy cream you have to use for cereal if you're trying to limit carbs. But it is silly to deprive yourself of Simon's videos just to avoid seeing something you're not going to buy anyway. Or are you afraid the magic KZread ad fairies will reach through the screen and lighten your wallet just because you didn't click away in time?

@paulluce2557

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks to Magic Spoon, Simon is turning into Factboy Slim....

This is actually incredibly tragic. The man lost his only son in the most brutal war this world has ever seen, and all he wanted was to believe that there was something beyond this life for his boy.

I think it’s kinda sweet the girls waiting till after he died to say they faked it, gave the man a bit of hope and made him feel like magic and dreams are real

It should be noted that Doyle and Houdini were very good friends to begin with. It wasn't until their ideological differences became so heated that it caused a rift between the two that simply could not be rectified. What a sad way to lose a friendship.

@melindoranightsilver9298

2 жыл бұрын

Well Doyle was kind of obsessed with Houdini because he thought the magic that Houdini did was real. No matter how often the magician and escape artist said otherwise. It truly broke down because of the seance done where Doyle's wife brought up Houdini's mother. There was so much wrong with it, that it enraged Houdini. He didn't mind believing in it just in case it could be real but the man loved exposing fakes.

Grief for his son's death in the war may have had a hand in the belief of the "other realms"

@CartoonHero1986

2 жыл бұрын

I think it might have had a LITTLE to do with that... but I think the main problem was that a lot of older well educated people in the Nobility and even Court like Doyle at the time still thought Theosophy was a tried and true science based in fact. Since the Theosophists Society deemed the pictures genuine anyone that subscribed to that flawed school of thought as a true science would argue they had solid and verified proof. It's more or less an per information age example of cherry picking facts and research for the SINGLE example that agrees with your position while ignoring the hundreds of examples that disagree or disprove your position. Doyle was also very much into spiritualism as well and there are actually loads of examples of him blundering terribly trying to prove to others (like Houdini himself) spiritualism was real and his wife was able to speak to the dead.

Wait, an "expert" photographer thought the photos were real because the fairies weren't blurry? The fairies are posed as if they are in motion. Those early cameras had mighty long exposure times. The lack of motion blur is the biggest giveaway that they are fake.

@gregthorne4292

2 жыл бұрын

The expert said there was no evidence of photographic trickery -- which there wasn't. These effects were all done in-camera.

@PetrSojnek

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I believe they were asking the expert if the film was tampered with in "post production". Which it wasn't, it was genuine photo of real objects in real life.

@QBCPerdition

2 жыл бұрын

He also said he saw evidence of motion in the farie, meaning he thought he did see a blur. Of course, amateur photographers could accidentally cause a bit of a blur, either through movement of the camera, or through incorrect focus

@jorgmintel3060

2 жыл бұрын

@@QBCPerdition I read somewhere that the paper cutout fairies were a little blurred because of slight movement in the wind. The expert has simply not thought of something that unintentional.

@chrispbacon3042

2 жыл бұрын

Camera shutter speeds back then were measured with a damn calendar.

You would have to say this is an early instance of somebody being trolled.

@minagica

2 жыл бұрын

Early? All of religion throughout human history is the self-proclaimed conduits of gods trolling the population that they would have a line to the gods and their will

@user-vi4xy1jw7e

2 жыл бұрын

@@minagica edgy

@joehorn1762

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-vi4xy1jw7e so facts are edgy?

@minagica

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-vi4xy1jw7e nah, just based

This story demonstrates the importance of burden of proof.

@Damons-Old-Soul

2 жыл бұрын

Burden of proof goes to reasonable doubt based on the evidence given. They had several experts in photography of the day, testify to their authenticity. By all rights they met the burden of proof for their day. What this and your comment show is not burden of proof. They show the closed mind of "Scientism," where no amount of proof can be offered to the belief that something physical science cannot explain. In this case, they authenticated the photos which is all they could do. The photos were the only evidence available. Wrong as it was, for their day, proof of the authenticity of the photos was met.

@DBZHGWgamer

2 жыл бұрын

@@Damons-Old-Soul They ruled out the possibility of cardboard cutouts even though it ended up being cardboard cutouts. Clearly the "expert" they got wasn't really an expert. There were plenty of more knowledgeable people who knew an easily fakeable photo was likely faked, and your conclusion is an over reliance on "sciencism." Lol, get over yourself.

@DBZHGWgamer

2 жыл бұрын

@@Damons-Old-Soul If the only available evidence isn't sufficient evidence, then you haven't met the burden of proof. It's that simple.

@tremorsfan

2 жыл бұрын

One of the "fairies" was held in place with a hat pin. The hat pin was visible in the photograph. The photo expert saw it and decided it was a belly button. I think it demonstrates the importance of looking at things objectively.

@joehorn1762

2 жыл бұрын

@@Damons-Old-Soul you failed at hurting skepticism and science. Try harder.

You missed talking about that there was a film made in 1997 about this. The film crew came to our school to look for local children to be in the film when the girls were at school. My older sister was put into the final group for being in film. The reason they did this was because the Yorkshire accent is hard to learn and hard to maintain apparently. so they just looked for locals to be in film. it was cool.

@fiona63

2 жыл бұрын

I've watched it! That's why I clicked on this video, do you remember what it was called?

@td370

2 жыл бұрын

What’s the movie called?

@Heva1987

2 жыл бұрын

@@fiona63 Fairytale: A True Story

@Heva1987

2 жыл бұрын

@@td370 Fairytale: A True Story

@CartoonHero1986

2 жыл бұрын

HAHA I remember Charlotte Ritchie trying to mock the accent whilst drunk for Drunk History doing this story and she actually made a joke about how she couldn't do the accent so they the viewers will just need to get over it and THAT (how she was mocking the accent) WAS the accent now.

Mysterious fairies, Area 51 space creatures, Big Food and the Loch Ness Monster. OH, what a tangled web of lies and deceit can people weave... and have many others absurdly believe..!

@chimpinaneckbrace

2 жыл бұрын

Big Food - the impossible to find grocery store.

@chuckoneill2023

2 жыл бұрын

Big Food --- just like Big Pharma, but better tasting.

@badgerello

2 жыл бұрын

Brought to you by magic sp…. Shhhhhhhhhh *technical difficulties*

I knew the faeries weren't real because you don't hear them say, "Hey!", "Look!", "Watch out!", or "Listen!" a million times.

@jherazob

2 жыл бұрын

And the girls could also say things other than "HA!" HYEA!" and similar things

I love the art style of the fairies and I find the photos to be very whimsical and magical looking. I would love to believe that magical and supernatural beings exist in our world, but my cold logical mind says they probably don't.

@chrispbacon3042

2 жыл бұрын

The major religions have been doing it for tens of centuries.

@JoeBrandAG

2 жыл бұрын

If you really want to "believe" (or, KNOW) all you have to do is do your own research on spiritual matters instead of following the status quo.

Did you coordinate this with the "Weird History" channel? You both released videos on this topic in the same hour! Now I know what I'm doing this morning. 🍿🍿🍿 lol Keep up the great content!

@jjwallnutts

2 жыл бұрын

Was going to comment the same thing! Haha weird timing for both videos lol

@TomGreene

2 жыл бұрын

Came here to say the same thing. Planned or planetary odd coincidence!

@Snp2024

2 жыл бұрын

Simon can actually see future why do you think he is bald? It's to keep Brain wave smmoth

@anonymoose9315

2 жыл бұрын

Hey I saw you in Weird history!

@dylammack

2 жыл бұрын

@@anonymoose9315 Yup, guilty! Haha

i've seen another youtuber tasting those "Magic Spoon" cereals without being sponsored by them and he said they all tasted horrible Oh yeah I remember now it was Drew Gooden video titled "I bought every wierd ad i saw for a month"

Am I the only one getting serious Mr. Crocker vibes from this story? FAIRY GOD PARENTS!!!!

@brendakrieger7000

2 жыл бұрын

My exact thoughts😂 FAIRIES😂

@Canucklover97

2 жыл бұрын

Well Timmy what do u want to wish today

This and weird history within 2 hrs on the same topic? Coincidence?

Your last observation that the willingness to believe was perhaps somewhat a result of the horrors of the "great war" was very astute. Oh, yeah, well down Simon, good job!

The fact that so many people didn't make the connection between the fairy photos and the pictures in a popular picture book shows a lot about the gullibility of our society

You can tell those faeries were drawn on paper and cut out. Photography must have been pretty new if even the "experts" couldn't figure that out.

Seen today, the photographs have the unerring compositional look of an adult photographer who planned and staged the hoax photos. 35 years ago when I was in high school, we had one of those encyclopedias of the unexplained sets in the library. And it had the Cottingley fairies as one of the chapters. I absolutely wanted to believe that was real, and I never really suspected trickery back then. And I was fully aware of many camera trickery techniques at the time, and aware that photo hoaxes were easy to do. I was also aware of the hoax aspects of the Spiritualism craze in the 1800s. The willingness to believe in something is pretty strong.

Again, your channel came through. Lots of great background information and insight. There is a film, I believe by Disney, about this incident. The twist is, in true Disney fashion, the fairies are real.

@terenceconnors9627

2 жыл бұрын

Do you mean FairyTale: A True Story? Produced in 1997 by Icon Productions, US distributor Paramount Pictures, international distributor Warner Bros. It's a sweet film with a good cast.

as an Edinburgh man im very proud of sir arthur conan doyle BUT.....dude was a bit of a nut job....just sayin!

@brandonstinson4988

2 жыл бұрын

Every famous author was a nut job; that's what makes them special.

@willhay6148

2 жыл бұрын

I think he was a goalkeeper for Portsmouth as well (maybe an urban myth). And goalkeepers are as mad as a bag of spanners.

@thesausagecontinuim1971

2 жыл бұрын

@@willhay6148 yeh im pretty sure he played football, as for who i dunno?.. most likely your spot on and its portsmouth?!... and yes lol... goalies generaly are a lil bit "i eat wax crayons" lol

@FigmentHF

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve seen other people that suffered tragic losses, being enveloped by the comforting claims of the supernatural. Burying your child will change you

"Every time someone says 'I do not believe in fairies' a fairy drops dead" - Tinkerbell

Simon, you and Weird History have some 'splainin' to do!

To be fair, Sir Arthur was a believer in many flavors of spiritualism. It was what led to the rift with his friend Houdini. There were quite a few other times he was overly credulous, the children just happened to tell a story he was motivated to believe.

And with the years of Harry Houdini saying.. Do stop ...don't believe in it.. The creator of Sherlock Holmes I will accept everything but the truth.. And a nother sucker is born.. BT Barnum would be proud.

Hey Simon! I just saw a video about this same exact subject on The Weird History Channel. I'm interested in your spin on it.

Weird history just put a video out about this same story an hour ago. Coincidence or conspiracy?!?!

@Kirsten_is_cursed10

2 жыл бұрын

Weird history didn’t have a 2 minute ad at least

@daganlove8536

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kirsten_is_cursed10 dont get mad at Simon for paying his bills.

@stratosphere94

2 жыл бұрын

That's freaky af

@rantanen1

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kirsten_is_cursed10 How do you think people make FREE YT videos for a living if not off of sponsorship deals? No shame in it

@jjwallnutts

2 жыл бұрын

Obvious Illuminati 😂😂

What are the odds Weird History and Today I Found Out release the same video within 15 minutes of each other?

A really fun 18 minute ride. Thank you 😊

"It's not magic its science" literally made me laugh out loud.

You did a great job Simon, I’m a OGBB and know how you feel about this… professional af!!

the defective who made a perfect detective

1:18 for those that don't care about $10 boxes of cereal.

That’s not John! How dare you have a lamp and not tell us their name.

I have heard this story a hundred times. I still have one question. If these fairies came from a "popular children's book" then why was that never pointed out? Other children had this book that countless adults had seen, so why wasn't it immediately recognized? And why has no one ever produced this book as evidence? This seems to be a glaring loophole to the explanation. I want to see the book that was used.

@redkittyproject

2 жыл бұрын

The girls didn't cut out the pictures, the girls used Princess Mary's Gift Book (1914) as a drawing/painting reference. I think they must have used another resource as well since there is a goblin looking character in one of their photos.

@heard3879

2 жыл бұрын

According to this video, one of the girls was a good artist and drew the pictures herself. And her dad had seen her drawing that kind of picture many times which is why he didn't believe the photos were real.

Simon should make a cereal called Science Bowl lol

I just mix rolled oats, milk, a little sugar and cinnamon and place in the fridge in the evening. Within an hour and definitely by morning the rolled oats are nice and soft.

Damn it Simon, you and your magic spoons!

Everyone needs a little magic in their lives. Some people find it in a friend, a partner or a child. Some need fairies.

Between the different channels, I wonder how many times per day this man says cereal.

3:45 That made me chuckle.

If the cardboard cutouts were from a popular children's book, how did no one recognize them over all that time?

our friends at magic [looks at spoon and ponders...repeating the word representing the visual stimulus before him while directing his next word at]....spooonn.

This is like how Newton invented Calculus and basically the entire field of physics while on break from his real life's passion: Alchemy. Really brilliant people believe some pretty stupid things sometimes.

Not really a big surprise. Considering Doyle couldn't seem to tell the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning when writing Sherlock.

Please Simon can you make a video about Johnny Ramenski? I love your videos!!

How funny! Weird History put out this same story today!

I remember reading about this story in the 80s. It was in a Girl Scout magazine.

I’m not sure where you got that first photo you showed, but it wasn’t one of the five Cottingley Fairy photos.

I saw this story as a movie once. I didn't realise it was based on true events.

Good video 👍

How do you get Magic Spoon to deliver to Prague?

The Weird History channel released a video on this same subject today. Must be the influence of the fairies 🤣

It just shows that some people believe in faked or made-up things so hard that they are certain they are real, and they cannot prove it, but will insist upon it being real...

There's a live action movie about the girls, it was one of my favourites as a kid. I think it was called Fairy Tale. It was a kid's movie, so in the film the fairies were supposed to be real though

This channel is one commercial after another!

How funny. I just got done watching a Weird History video about this very story.

Doyle is buried in Minstead, a village in the New Forest, just a few miles from where I am!

The desire of human beings to be fooled never fails to astound me.

@FigmentHF

2 жыл бұрын

People want answers in a cosmic ocean of seemingly endless, unanswerable questions. We want intuitive, anthropocentric explanations to a bafflingly unintuitive universe that doesn't seem to place much emphasis on our individual sense of self importance.

Weird history just posted a video about this today too lol is it the anniversary today or something?

you and weird history matchin outfits at school today. same topics.

@MaxPower151

2 жыл бұрын

you're awesome I noticed the same thing

Simon, you should do a Biographics on Madame Blavatsky! For a woman who had a wide-reaching, if subtle, impact on the 20th century through her travels and influence on everyone from Crowley, to the Nazis, to Jimi Hendrix, most people have never even heard of her. Even though large parts of her biography are questionably true, at best, it still makes for a hell of a story!

Okay, the first time that I saw a spoon add that started with Simon eating it, it was alright. I follow most of his channels, and I swear that I will never buy magic spoon because of how jarring and uncomfortable it has become to hear that clink and chewing to start off a video.

KZread channel Weird History had a video about this that they released today. GMTA eh?

Clicked as soon as I saw it. I kinda know this story already, but I want to know more.

Just saw this story on Weird History. Fascinating coincidence

1:30 Wait, so that quote from Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations is not actually from Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations?

This is insanity. I love it. 🍿🍿🍿

Weird History posted a video on this today as well.

Weird History released their video about the same topic two days ago. However, Simon and TIFO has more details relative thereto.

The Cotswold fairies, I believe?

This same story appeared today on Weird History

i live on the edge of cottingly woods. its quite easy to imagine fairys living there

Hail to glamour and mystery!!

@4:33 the theosophy logo has got to be one of the last in history to have used the Swastika and Star of David together…

This could explain the origin of the slang term “Doyle” used in North East England to describe an idiot or anybody with low mental capacity. Example - “Shurrup yer fkn doyle!”

Was *not* expecting Madame Blavatsky to get a name check. She gets everywhere.

4 minutes in and I am guessing double exposure on the film

And today nothing has changed.

Strand cigarettes had a magazine? OGBB!

0:52 Frosted with sugar … I wonder how the y do that without adding sugar …

Is that the Gardner who founded Gardnerian Wicca?

I could see a movie based on the fairies being real. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

meanwhile in the modern era of today the fairies are probably categorized as SCP, lol.

@tskraj3190

2 жыл бұрын

They are. 😉

I think Magic Spoon is the real fairies here.....

And Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.. Only believed photographs but never seen these fairies in real life... And proving their existence with real life scientific proof they exist.. He was a creator of Sherlock Holmes right? Why I'm not surprised on this.

One of the first uses of Photoshop. 🤣 So ..that's where the Kardashians get it from.

Sherlock used inductive reasoning.

HIGHLY recommend you check out Drunk History UK's episode on this. It was epically hilarious seeing Matthew Horne play Frances Griffiths while lip syncing to a drunken Charlotte Ritchie's narration. Also just random... does anyone else think the picture of Kingsley Conan Doyle looks strangely like Thoughty2 with a rounder face?

That cereal made Simon fucking crunkass. Sign me up!!!

now this is 69th time i heard this story this month

This was created suspiciously close to that thoughty2 video

Unless my memory is failing me, there was a movie made from these events, somewhere in the early 2000s... 🤔🤨🤨🤨

Even as a kid I could tell they were cut out pictures sir Arthur Conan Doyle more like sir Arthur bellend

Doyle also had beef with Harry Houdini over spiritualism.

@joehorn1762

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, because Houdini kept debunking them.

These types of stories always surprise me in how much of liars or trolls even seemingly honest people sometimes are. On a slightly different but related topic, I don’t know how anyone could ever be convicted “beyond a reasonable doubt” when the evidence is human testimony. A reasonable doubt is always justified when the primary evidence is human accounts.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.... The agent molder of his day. He was surly the inspection for fox molder on the X-files. " I want to believe." Or like on ancient aliens. how could they possibly do that unless it was....ALIENS.... or "Magic.'

When I lived in England, I met a few people who believed in fairies and one or two who claimed to have actually met fairies. I'm not saying either way, other than I have met people who are convinced in both directions.

@GrandDawggy

2 жыл бұрын

Alot of people across the border from me in Ireland believe in fairys. I'm un convinced.

Weird history just did this story a few hours ago