The cottingley fairies made headlines in the early 1900's, a set of five photographs taken by two young girls at the bottom of their garden showing the apparent existence of fairies. The photographs created quite a buzz for many years, contributed in part by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who took an interest in the photo's and thought they proved the existence of fairies once and for all. Does it make sense that the author of Sherlock Holmes, the most intelligent, logical, critical thinking famous detective of all time would believe in Fairies? It does when you consider two things, first, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was actually a spiritualist and second, Sherlock Holmes was a fictional character created by Doyle who of course also invented the crimes that our great detective solved in the first place, to attribute the traits of Holmes to the author is therefore a mistake. The photo's would continue to pop up throughout the years and although generally accepted by most as fakes the ladies insisted that the fairies were real right up to the 1980's. Shortly before their deaths they finally admitted the fraud and how they produced the photographs. The 'Fairies' were simple cut-outs from a 1914 children's book held in place with hat pins.
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