The Girls who Fooled the World

I remember when I was about 11 picking up a paperback - The World's Greatest Mysteries. There I stumbled upon one of the most inspirational stories about two young girls and how they managed to fool so many people for many years including Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes. The Cottingley Fairies captured my imagination! Never believing that it was real, just being stunned by the art of creating those images.

Harold Snelling, a photography expert, said that "the two negatives are entirely genuine, unfaked photographs with no trace whatsoever of studio work involving card or paper models". He did not go so far as to say that the photographs showed fairies, stating only that "these are straight forward photographs of whatever was in front of the camera at the time."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." -Albert Einstein