Mysterious Discoveries

This post is about two young girls that, in their young age, claimed to have captured Faeries through a camera. It is the story of the Photographs and what really happened. This story is now a film called Fairy Tale: A True Story. If you want to know more about this then I would recommend watching the film.

When I was much younger (around 5) I watched the film about two young girls that had claimed they had found faeries and had taken pictures of them. I was completly mesmerised by this story and still remember it to this day. So what happened was two cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, took so pictures of some Faeries that they saw. At the time they were living in Cottingley, England and the photographs caught the attention of a writer- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He was really enthusiastic about these photographs and used them in one of his articles called Faeries for the 1920 addition of the Strand Magazine. The reaction from the public was mixed, some claiming it was fake and others accepting the images as real. There were five photographs and all triggered a strong public reaction. After the girls were married and grown up in 1966 a reporter traced Elsie, she said that the photographs expressed her thoughts and the story once again became popular. Later, in the 1980's, Frances and Elsie admitted that the photographs were fake, but Frances still claimed that the fifth was real.

The moonlit garden,
The twinkling stars,
The shimmering fairies,
The glowing fires,
Tell a sweet story,
Tell all who will listen,
Tell of the magic,
Tell while they glisten

-Randi Kuhne