Carlos at the Sydney Opera House
In 1988 Carlos arrived in Australia — the channel of a two-thousand-year-old spirit, worked by José Alvarez, with press releases, forged clippings and stories of people fainting in New York auditoriums. The press took all of it on trust, no newsroom rang the American telephone numbers supplied, and the tour ended with a full house at the Sydney Opera House. It was a production by James Randi, designed as an experiment on journalism: Alvarez was his student, the spirit an invention, the documents forgeries, and the whole itinerary planned in advance. That same evening 60 Minutes showed how it had been done.
Solway Firth and the Spaceman Behind the Girl
On 23 May 1964 the fireman Jim Templeton photographed his daughter Elizabeth on Burgh Marsh beside the Solway Firth. On the developed frame a white figure in something like a spacesuit stands behind the girl. Kodak confirmed the negative had not been tampered with, and for forty years the picture was offered as evidence. The explanation is in the frame itself: it is Templeton's wife in a pale blue dress, photographed from behind and heavily overexposed — she was standing there, and she is in the same spot on other shots from the roll. Templeton never accepted it, and died in 2011 still convinced.
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