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The Cottingley Fairies
Who would have thought that two young girls would be able to get one over on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? Cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths took five photographs in 1917 that purported to show fairies in their garden. Doyle, a staunch spiritualist, took the pictures at face value and used them in an article he wrote in 1920.
In the ’80s, the girls admitted that four of the photographs were of fairies cut out from a children’s book, stuck on cardboard and stood on pins. Frances, though, claimed that the fifth photograph, the “sunbath”, was real and both girls stuck with that story until their deaths.
In an interview on Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World , Elsie explained why it took them so long to confess. “Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.”
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