The Cotdinglea Fairies

Two english girls named elsie wright and francis griffith are the central figures in our mystery. Elsie first saw the fairies in 19 15, when she would have been 14 years old. She didn't even tell her playmate frances who encountered them on her own. When this mystery began, world war one was in full swing. And we were about a year away from the disastrous 19 18 spanish flue pandemic. Despite the global conflict that was going on,Elsie lived in an idyllic spot behind her house. There was a beautiful wood with a stream known as cottingley back. The two girl s would spend time playing in the