Biggest Hoaxes Ever: Fairies, crop circles, zero gravity

Mysteries of Science

Fun Kids

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.6 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Season 3 of Mysteries of Science! On this podcast we take a look at the strange phenomena and bizarre events that have left scientists scratching their heads and, despite their best efforts, remain well and truly unsolved.

Since this brand new series is being released on April Fool’s Day, we thought we would celebrate by looking at three of the biggest hoaxes of all time, and try and get to the bottom of why so many people fell for the pranks.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back. I can barely believe it. This is the first episode of season three of Mysteries of Science.
0:10.6	If we've not met before, I'm Dan, I'm the editor of Science and Nature, which is a monthly magazine from the team behind the week junior.
0:17.9	Today, I'm joined by Stevie, our Deputy Editor.
0:21.2	Hi everyone.
0:22.2	And Michael, our Junior Editor.
0:24.6	Hello.
0:25.6	On this podcast, we take a look at our favourite mysteries of science, which are the strange
0:30.9	phenomena and bizarre events that have left scientists scratching their heads and, well,
0:36.4	despite their best efforts, remain well and truly unsolved.
0:41.4	So since this is brand new series as being released on April Fool's Day,
0:45.3	we thought we would celebrate by looking back at three of the biggest hoaxes of all time
0:50.2	and try and get to the bottom of why so many people fell for the pranks.
0:54.9	Yes, these are the stories which made April fools out of everyone,
0:58.9	but why do people believe in these unbelievable hoaxes?
1:02.2	Are they just gullible, or is there something else going on?
1:05.5	So join us as we examine some famous fairy photographs.
1:08.9	Take a walk through some crop circles.
1:11.5	And float off into space as the earth loses its gravity.
1:15.8	This is Mysteries of Science.
1:18.8	So Michael, where do we begin today?
1:21.3	Well, Dan, have you ever taken a photo and found that you captured something strange,
1:25.6	something unexplainable that you didn't mean to photograph? Or perhaps you did mean to. Perhaps you saw something incredible and wanted
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