Arthur Conan Doyle's article was published in the Christmas 1920 issue of Strand magazine. The headline was fairies photographed. An epic making event described by Arthur Conan Doyle. One reader complained that for a few weeks no one talked of anything.
In the summer of 1917, 16-year-old Elsie Wright took a photograph of her 9-year-old cousin, Frances Griffiths. It was the first photograph she’d ever taken — and it became the source of a mystery that lasted for most of the 20th century.
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