It traveled all over the world, including France, Germany, Japan, Italy, and America. Everybody reported it.
In an attempt to deceive their British counterparts, Oxfordshire novelist Allistair Mitchell showed the audience a pickled dragon in a jar in January 2004. According to Mitchell, the dragon was created in the 1890s by German scientists.
However, it was a hoax of a hoax, designed to promote a fiction book he had written about dragons, and the phony newborn creature was successful in tricking the world’s media.
The author remarked, “I think 20 years ago,” “Adults were more believing in that than children today would be.”
He made a rubber embryonic creature that was one foot tall and had an umbilical chord.
A glassmaker on the Isle of Wight manufactured the sealed jar to order, but he had no idea what it would be used for.
“Everyone went ‘wow’ when I tested it on friends,” the author claimed.
After then, Mr. Mitchell hired a professional photographer to take photos.
The Evening Standard published the article on Friday after I sent them those pictures, and by Saturday, it had gone viral.
