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Mexican fairy exhibition hoax
Aug. 20th, 2011 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frameacloudTrigger warnings for this article: dead creature, ostensibly. Work-safe.
Earlier this month in Guadalajara, Mexico, unemployed bricklayer Jose Maldonado, 22, claims to have captured a tiny fairy, which he says was alive at the time. He then preserved it in a jar of formaldehyde. He charges admission for people to look at it, and purportedly thousands have done so. His family also sells souvenirs depicting the fairy, and he has been featured on television. Skeptics note that the fairy is identical to a particular two centimeter tall rubber doll, a commonly-sold toy.
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Earlier this month in Guadalajara, Mexico, unemployed bricklayer Jose Maldonado, 22, claims to have captured a tiny fairy, which he says was alive at the time. He then preserved it in a jar of formaldehyde. He charges admission for people to look at it, and purportedly thousands have done so. His family also sells souvenirs depicting the fairy, and he has been featured on television. Skeptics note that the fairy is identical to a particular two centimeter tall rubber doll, a commonly-sold toy.
