Conan Doyle Lived for Cottage Core ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*
Conan Doyle gained fame by creating the world's foremost fictional detective in Sherlock Holmes, but what in what ways did he fail to do good detective work himself when it came to the Case of the Cottingham Fairies? Conan Doyle's emotions got the best of him in this investigation with the recent passing of his son and brother in World War II, making him biased towards the belief that the fairies and gnomes Elsie Wright had invented were real. In specific, Doyle did not go out to the site of these mythical spottings himself but sent an investigator with even more bias toward the belief. Furthermore, he merely dismissed the idea that the girls had made up these sightings not only because they were of the working class, but because they were girls. In reality, Wright was clever enough to craft this hoax using paper cutouts of fairies and watercolor displays on the walls. Once he believed in the idea, Doyle believed this theory up until his death, unwilling to see the obvious de...