The name Sherlock Holmes is all but synonymous with logic. Sherlock isn't gullible. Through every iteration of the Holmes mysteries, every reboot and retelling and fanfiction story, the world's most ...

The Third Reich and “World Ice Theory”: “Throughout this period Hitler and Himmler sponsored a fanciful doctrine known as ‘World Ice Theory,’ which posited that history, science, and religion could be ...

Two photographs which famously fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into believing in fairies have sold at auction for more than ten times their estimated value. The images of the Cottingley Fairies, as they ...

Thomas Mulligan investigates how a pair of young cousins used simple paper cutouts to deceive one of the world's greatest ...

In 1920, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published photographs in the widely read Strand magazine that he believed proved the existence of fairies. The pictures had been taken a few years earlier by two ...