Nothing new under the sun, chief. Certainly not new fossils, anyway.
That's been going on in
Knaresborough as far back as any records can tell. The so-called 'petrifying well' was next to the simple home of an old dear whose retro-engineered 'prophesies' were terminally petrified under a massive pinch of salt when her apocalypse failed to occur in 1981.
The slightest investigation will reveal your man's 'young fossils' to be no more like the real thing than anything you can buy in the Mother Shipton souvenir shop.
Although I'd be interested to see if he can make a T Rex by that process.