Ghost In The Machine
Justified & Ancient
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I don't think the fact the girls faked some stuff does necessarily detract from the whole story. I think in that situation, you'd want to convince people. (Some element of that to Cottingley, too?). But also, these were kids in a stressful family situation, not two pennies to rub together, and there's an element of enjoying the limelight, to some extent too. Even so - how do we account for other witnesses, like police officers and the passerby who saw what appeared to be Janet, levitating?
I think it's complex and it doesn't really mean the whole thing is untrue (or wasn't true in their heads), when some elements have been known to have been faked, for years.
The gravestone thing doesn't really matter, it's just a tangent. Like Cottingley, it's possible that there's an element to it that those involved totally believed to be true, as well as a larger element of things faked to convince others.
I think it's complex and it doesn't really mean the whole thing is untrue (or wasn't true in their heads), when some elements have been known to have been faked, for years.
The gravestone thing doesn't really matter, it's just a tangent. Like Cottingley, it's possible that there's an element to it that those involved totally believed to be true, as well as a larger element of things faked to convince others.