In the summer of 1917 two English schoolgirl sixteen years old Elsie Wright and her cousin Frances Griffiths spent many hours playing near a stream in a place called Cottingley Glen Frances who was only nine would often come home with her shoes and clothes wet this annoyed her mother and her aunt Elsie 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 father camera and went back to Cottingley Glen