The girls produced a number of photographs of themselves with fairies. Mr Wright did not believe the fairies were real, but the girl mother were not so sure. The didn't think their daughters would trick them and, like many people at that time, they wanted to believe that fairies existed. They showed the photographs to other people, who studied them and argued about them. Many believed that the Cotting Glen fairies were real, even the famous author Arthur Conan Doyle .