[js1138]

Interestingly, these fairy photos werre probably taken and developed by a couple of 12 year old girls, one of whom is pictured in your post. None of the highly sophisticated adults who examined the pics could explain how they might be faked. The kids were born about a century too soon to work for Lukas.

[aristeides]

The girls later admitted, as old women, that the photos had been faked.

[Gumlegs]

Actually, Frances Griffiths (pictured), was 10 and Elsie Wright was 16, but you've got the basic story right.

Doyle dismissed any objections because the girls couldn't possibly have misrepresented the photos. Of course, he had to ignore the fact that Elsie (age 16), had artistic skill and had even worked retouching photographs. The fairy photos were not retouched, however. This fact was used by the fairy supporters to bolster their idea that there really were fairies in the garden. However, the photos were faked. They were done quite simply by creating paper cut-outs based on designs printed in a book two years before the photos were taken. Here's how the fairies looked in, "Princess Mary's Gift Book."

Do they look anything like the "fairies" posing with Frances in the photo I posted above?

[exDemMom]

None of the highly sophisticated adults who examined the pics could explain how they might be faked.

The adults wanted to believe.