They never expected their prank to get so big, and when it did, hadn’t wanted to embarrass their families and Conan Doyle.
The hoax continued until 1983, when Frances and Elsie, then 75 and 81, finally admitted that the pictures were faked. The photos came to the attention of Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle, and he was so intrigued, he got them published in a magazine. She convinced her father to let them take his camera to photograph the little creatures, and sure enough, they were able to capture some of the fairies on film. When Frances got in trouble for getting her shoes wet, she claimed she and Elsie had seen fairies near the water. Summary: In 1917, cousins Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright spent much of the summer playing near the beck, or stream, behind their home in Cottingley, England.
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