Mummified Fairy Found, 20 Altogether

According to Dan Baine's website, while a man was walking his dog in Derbyshire England, he came across what appears to be a burial ground for Fairies. The remains of an 8 inch fairy female, intact with tiny nails, wings, teeth, and remains of her flowing red hair. There were several fairy remains suggesting this was a fairy burial ground.

The bones are hollow like that of a bird, and she has a navel, suggesting they reproduced the same way as humans, although there are no reproductive organs. X rays showed the remains to be like that of a child.

The area where the fairy was found has always been mysterious, with sparkling lights, and "ghostly highwaymen." Upon discovering the mummified body, the man who wishes to remain anonymous called for his wife to come and see for herself. She could hardly believe that it was a fairy, and that there were 20 fairy bodies.

An expert of the paranormal was called in to examine the bodies and revealed that these fairies were approximately 400 years old and was preserved so well some had eyebrows.

The question of how these creatures were never detected before came up. It is assumed they blended so well with the trees and hovered on the very tree tops during the good weather, and would retrieve to the caves in the winter for shelter, where they would not be seen.

However, the discovery of fairies was an actual April Fool's joke, and very likely one of the biggest hoaxes in the UK. Illusionist Dan Baines created this fairy and others like it as a hoax. His website received 20,000 hits in one day. This story was in newspapers throughout the UK.

Baines, decided to sell his fairy on Ebay, and an unidentified buyer was the lucky recipient of a mummified fairy.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=005&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=150107258059&rd=1&rd=1

More photo's can be viewed on Dan's website, source for this story:

http://www.lebanoncircle.co.uk/DeadFairy.htm