In the summer of 1917 two english schoolgirls, sixteen-year-old Elsie Wright and her cousin Frances Griffiths, spent many house playing near a stream in a place called Cottingley Glen . Frances, who was only nine,would often come home with ter shoes and colthes wat . This annoyed her mother and her aunt, Elsie's mother . They asked Frances why she kept going to the stream . Frances was silent for a moment , and then replied that she went to see the fairies . The two women didn't believe her . Then Elsie said that she had seen the fairies too and that they would take photographs to prove it . So they borrowed Elsie's father's camera and went back to Cottingley Glen