I always loved this story because the creator of the world's greatest detective was fooled by little girls with cutouts on hat pins.
The Cottingley Fairies, photos taken by two cousins Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright between 1917 and 1920 near Bradford in England. Many people at the time, including Arthur Conan Doyle, believed the fairies were real. The fairies were, in fact, paper cutoutspic.twitter.com/GOwnzIPWm5
-
-
-
A case of I Want to Believe.
-
Exactly!
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Poor Conan Doyle, he was so utterly taken with the idea.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
It's so obvious now that they're fake, but I guess in those days it was easier to take people in. Arthur Conan Doyle was apparently really big on the idea of fairies and other mystical and magical things, he truly wanted to believe.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
There's a couple of good films about the story.
-
Really? What are they?
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Not only that, but the fairies were modelled after illustrations from Princess Mary's Gift Book, the introduction to which was written by none other than Arthur Conan Doyle.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
@CarriePoppyYES did you end up buying any of these? -
I did bid, but they sold for like 10k British pounds or something, so way out of my range
-
Oof. My mum loves the pics so I wondered how much they'd go for, but that is waaaaay too much
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Maybe their ability to suspend belief in reality is what made their books so good?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I feel for him. I believed in the Babadook for a week until my sister let me down easy.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I'm still sad that it's not true.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
This Tweet is unavailable
-
-
Like many children, Sherlock Holmes was embarrassed by his dad.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.