8 Mythical Creatures Recently Spotted In Real Life

2. Pixies - Cornwall, UK (2015)

Perhaps the most famous sighting of any mythical creature was that of the Cottingley Fairies in the 1920s. A series of photographs that, through image manipulation that was well in advance of its time, managed to fool the entire world. As such, sightings of tiny winged fairies and pixies has been treated with almost total disdain and skepticism.

However, in 2015 a bird of prey rescue centre in cornwall was clearing out its falcon nests when they stumbled across a shocking piece of physical evidence. Specifically, a partly decomposed skeleton of a human, albeit one mere inches tall. The remains were taken to two local podcast hosts - one a prop-designer responsible for his own fairy hoax some years pervious - and both were unable to explain the bones.

The remains have since been sent for proper scrutiny and identifying, but at the time of writing no conclusive verdict has been given either way over their legitimacy or otherwise.