Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Truth Behind the 'Cottingley Fairies'

Criminalia

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1917, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths convinced a whole lot of people, including the famous Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, they'd seen fairies neat their home -- and they had photographic evidence to prove it. After decades of keeping their ruse a secret, they admitted their "joke was to last two hours, and it has lasted 70 years.

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1:14.2	dominant stories. Those are all lies designed by culture and negative forces to
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1:49.0	There are fairies at the bottom of our garden. It's not so very, very far away.
1:51.0	You pass the gardener's shed and you just keep straight ahead. I do so hope they've really
1:56.0	come to stay. Those lines begin the poem, There are fairies at the bottom of our garden,
2:01.5	written by Rose Fileman and published in 1917.
2:04.7	It turns out fairies were having a big year that year. That summer two young girls
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