Everyone else is convinced it’s a hoax, but just for fun, I think I’ll enjoy playing with the idea that this pickled dragon could be real.
A pickled “dragon” that looks as if it might once have flown around Harry Potter’s Hogwarts has been found in a garage in Oxfordshire, England.
The baby dragon, in a sealed jar, was discovered with a metal tin containing paperwork in old-fashioned German of the 1890s.
Allistair Mitchell, who was asked to investigate the dragon by a friend, David Hart, who discovered it in his garage, speculates that German scientists may have attempted to use the dragon to hoax their English counterparts at the end of the 19th century, when rivalry between the countries was intense.
Hoax, shmoax. I can believe in dragons if I want to!
Besides — living as close to Capitol Hill as I do, believing in fairies is easy enough. Why not dragons too? ;)
(via BoingBoing)
iTunes: “Another Samba” by Ugly Duckling from the album Journey to Anywhere (2002, 4:01).