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The Cottingley Fairies with Chelsey Weber-Smith

You're Wrong About

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How Elsie Tricked the Fairies

There are a couple different investigations in the 70s both by the committee for the scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal and by the british journal of photography good team yeah which that's who i want investigating my mysteries they do determine that they're fake. Then finally in the early 80s the girls who are now very old ladies explain how they did it this is in a magazine articleThe way they did it was that there is a book for children called princess mary's gift book that has these dancing kind of gibson girl figures and then elsie improved them with drawings of wings and kind of added fairy touches and then cut them out and pinned them into the moss or whateverwith hat

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