in the summer of 1917, two english schoolgirls, sixteen-year-old elsie wright and her cousin fracesgriffiths, spent many hours playing near a stream in a place called cottingley glen. frances, whowas only nine, would often come home with her shoes and clothes wet. 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 would take photographs to prove it. so they borrowed elsie's father's camera and went back to cottingley glen