The sightings of magical beings have been numerous since the photograph exists, many times it has been claimed to have captured with the lens some of these strange beings.
Most of the time they are with infrared or they result in very blurry photographs that do not allow to see clearly anything. However, in 1918 a couple of girls got photographs that despite the reluctance that the community initially showed, many people finally believed and considered real, and these were photographs of little fairies they had encountered in the forest and who, doing friendship with them, they had allowed them to take pictures.
The girls, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffith, who were cousins, had asked the father of the first to lend them his camera to take some photos of the creek on the property.
The man agreed, but later when he revealed the reel he found something he did not understand in the photographs: small white spots appeared on many of them, always around Elsie, who, when questioning him, assured her that it was her friends. fairies The man found it funny, but after lending them the camera a second time and having captured something similar, he confiscated the camera, believing that they were playing a joke on him.
The subject was buried until his wife and mother Elsie, Polly Wright, was part of an occult group known as the Bradford Theosophical Society, and once began to talk about fairies.
The lady mentioned the photographs, and in a next session she took them where they were seen by all, and apparently they seemed quite real, because very soon new, clearer copies were made to discover if there was any kind of deception, for which reason they were He commissioned a professional photographer to do the development, and found no evidence of manipulation either.
The matter quickly became relevant in the town and reached such levels, that the same writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, became interested in the photographs and ended up writing an article of the theme for a magazine, which popularized the photographs still plus.
Well, although at first Sir Arthur thought that they were surely false, after showing them to Sir Oliver Lodge, an important psychic of the time, he said that they were dancers dressed as fairies.
However, for Sir Arthur it stopped appearing as a hoax after meeting the family, because they seemed honest people. To prove the veracity of the photographs, Sir Oliver gave them a camera with unique plates that could hardly be faked, but despite this, the girls managed to capture a photo with two fairies again.
Despite this, people continued with the divided opinion, because although some considered the latter as the ultimate test such as truthfulness, for others, clothing was the proof of the contrary, as they considered it represented the most stereotyped attire of a fairy, so it could be an image taken from another side, but no exact similarities were found with images from a book or magazine. And those who supported him said that the clothing of these creatures could not be otherwise.
During the years, both detractors and people who supported the veracity of the story, continued to present arguments on both sides. It was not until 1971 that again, a local girl, with no apparent connection to Elsie, took similar photos, which reopened the debate. And many interviews were done with Elsie, her cousin and the girl.
In some it was mentioned that the photos were real but that they could not prove their existence, then others came out where they stated otherwise. So, the only real truth is very difficult to know. Since the people who always supported Elsie, they claimed that she had declared falsehood only because of the social pressure they had experienced since childhood.