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The Cottingley Fairies

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

CHAPTER

The Story of the Fairies

One hundred and three years ago this month, elsie begged her father to lend her his midge camera. The girls said that they had gone in to see the fairies but their parents scoffed at them. Despite their parent scepticism and teasing, the girls maintained their story. So how did the girls come to take photographs of the fairies? Frances had fallen into the back and gotten all wet, which annoyed their mothers. And researcher joe cooper explains what happened next. They were away for about an hour when mister wright developed the plate later in the afternoon. He was surprised to see strange white shapes coming up,. imagining them to be first birds and then sandwich papers left

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