![]() ![]() Unlike the revered Mr Holmes, Conan Doyle decided to believe the improbable by assuming that it was impossible for the girls to fake the photos. ‘Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’ In short, he was motivated to accept the photos as genuine and to dismiss any other explanation. ![]() The photos were taken by two young girls, but it was only when Conan Doyle got his hands on them that they became a cause célèbre.īy the time the first photos surfaced in 1917, Conan Doyle had already become a firm supporter of spiritualism and, while he makes it clear that he doesn’t consider the existence of fairies to be directly related to people communicating from beyond the grave, he expresses his hope that this ‘proof’ of one thing thought to be a myth might open people’s minds to considering the truth of the other. In this short book, Conan Doyle tells the story of the famous ‘Cottingley Fairies’ – 5 photographs taken over a three-year period purporting to show fairies and gnomes sporting in a valley in Yorkshire. “If you believe in fairies, clap your hands…” ![]()
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