The Cottingley Fairies with Chelsey Weber-Smith
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week, Sarah tells her favorite kind of story to American Hysteria’s Chelsey Weber-Smith: one where two girls hoaxed the world without trying very hard.
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| 0:00.0 | And like, look, are we sure that the fairies don't follow human fashion trends? No, we're |
| 0:06.4 | not sure. That could have happened. But why would they, though? They're fairies. |
| 0:21.1 | Welcome to your wrong about. I'm Sarah Marshall, and today we were talking about fairies. |
| 0:26.2 | It took us long enough. So more specifically, we were talking about the Cottingly fairies, |
| 0:30.8 | and we were talking about them with my favorite spiritualist, Chelsea Weber-Smith. |
| 0:35.7 | This is an unusual episode for us, and that not too many horrible things happened with the |
| 0:40.1 | exception of World War I. And we had a really fun time making it for you. Another thing I had a |
| 0:46.0 | fun time making for you is our current bonus episode. Flowers in the attic with Carmen Maria |
| 0:52.7 | Machado, because I like talking about paperbacks and so does she. And so if you want to listen on |
| 0:58.9 | Patreon or Apple Plus subscriptions, head on over there, and on Patreon we are currently having a very |
| 1:05.6 | complicated voting process for our next paperback book club with Carmen. So if you remember, |
| 1:11.6 | get in there and throw out some ideas. And that is it. Have a great time with this episode. We |
| 1:17.3 | had such a good time making it. Have a great rest of your summer. Eat something delicious today. |
| 1:23.0 | Have some corn, and if you don't like corn, have the thing you like. |
| 1:31.6 | Welcome to your wrong about the podcast where inevitably we are talking about fairies. |
| 1:37.6 | With me today is Chelsea Weber-Smith. Hello, Chelsea. Famously a fairy myself. Hello, Sarah. |
| 1:45.2 | Before we get into it, I was very much a fairy kid. I was like a very fanciful, high fantasy |
| 1:53.4 | kind of a kid, and fairy slotted right into that. And also anything where you could like add |
| 2:00.3 | lace unnecessarily to something I was into as an adolescent. And I think that the story we're talking |
| 2:06.8 | about makes so much more sense when we also start off with the understanding that this takes place |
| 2:12.2 | in England primarily between 1917 and 1920. And that this is a time when the industrial revolution |
| 2:21.8 | has recently changed within a generation the way millions of people live their daily lives. |
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