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.
The girls produced a number of photographs of themselves with fairies. Mr Wright did not believe the fairies were real. but the girls' mothers were not so sure. they 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 Cottingley Glen fairies were real, even the famous author Arthur Conan Doyle.
It wasn't until 1983 that Elsie admitted to a journalist that the photographs were fakes. The girls had drawn the fairies, cut them out and used pins to stand them up. Elsie said she couldn't believe that their little joke had tricked so many people for so many years