http://www.cottingleyconnect.org.uk/girlfairy.htm
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ForeverMagicle — 19 years ago(March 17, 2007 12:11 PM)
I think it's very possible that they really did see fairies.
Maybe some of the photos were fakes because they just needed some sort of proof so that people would believe them. (It's also possible there not fakes)
And when one of the girls confessed that it was a hoax she could have just been pretending it was a hoax so that people would leave her alone.
And one of those photos looks very real to me.
I don't know about all of you, but that's what I think. -
baileypinkrose — 19 years ago(March 18, 2007 04:41 AM)
I think what we had here were incredible young artists with great imaginations. I saw a painting that one of the girls did and it was full of detail, it was colorful and just amazing.
Not to say that fairies aren't real, though. I do have to say the one with the sunbath, the fairies do look 3 dementional. And that is the one the girl maintained was the only real picture. I guess you would only really know if you saw one yourself.
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heather_blus — 19 years ago(March 18, 2007 02:43 PM)
"I think it's very possible that they really did see fairies.
Maybe some of the photos were fakes because they just needed some sort of proof so that people would believe them. (It's also possible there not fakes)
And when one of the girls confessed that it was a hoax she could have just been pretending it was a hoax so that people would leave her alone.
And one of those photos looks very real to me.
I don't know about all of you, but that's what I think. "
I think you need psychiatric help if you believe in fairies. -
heather_blus — 18 years ago(May 01, 2007 04:40 PM)
"I wasn't asking your opinion.
I'm not judging you by what you think, so don't judge me."
I have a right to my opinion, and I think anyone who believes in fairies is not playing with a full deck. By the way, Elsie never claimed to see fairies. Do you still believe now that she did even though she admits she didn't? If so, then that's saaaaaaaaaad. -
puirt-a-beul — 18 years ago(June 01, 2007 07:18 AM)
Yeah,
heather_blus
, you've got a right to your opinion, but remember it's just that: your opinion. It's not automatically superior judgement, and it's not automatically the truth.
You seem pretty aggressive and condescending here. Perhaps it's
you
who needs psychiatric help ?
Regarding fairies: I can conceive of such a thing existing, but that doesn't mean I actively
believe
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My own take on the photos is that they're constructed. Fake, in other words. They look like two girls got creative with their hobbies of drawing and photography, and produced something they expected their parents to find pleasing or endearing, but that it all got out of hand and blown out of proportion. It must have just got harder and harder to 'fess up, and I can imagine it became something of a quiet embarrassment to the women as the years passed.
I was amused by the reference on the website to the sun-bath photo, that pointed out the "magnetic bath" (what?!??) feature as being something fairies supposedly actually do but that the girls wouldn't have known about when they made the shot, as if that unproven assertion somehow authenticates the picture. So I want to know: who's the alleged "authority" that says this is real-world fairy behaviour, and what's the source of their own "knowledge" other than this very picture, I mean. -
heather_blus — 17 years ago(November 29, 2008 03:57 PM)
"You seem pretty aggressive and condescending here. Perhaps it's you who needs psychiatric help ?"
Nope, I just calls ems as I sees em.
Funny how you say this, yet you yourself take the time to reply. Hmmm. -
goopah — 18 years ago(November 18, 2007 07:29 AM)
I find all this debate quite amusing.
In the end, does it really matter if they're real or not?
Some of life's greatest pleasures can be found in the mysteries, not the solutions.
There are a lot of things we don't know about.
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fantasmic_magik — 18 years ago(November 18, 2007 08:06 AM)
In my opinion, what I see is 4 very clever fakes by some girls that wanted their loved ones to believe in what they both saw. The media blew it out of porpotian and so they got tired of it..but the last picture. looks different form all the rest. I'm a photography student with Darkroom expirence and even to me it has quality's that make it look real. So maybe they did see faires and faked some photos to make themselves and others feel betterbut in the end, it dosent matter because as long as someone believes, fairys exist.
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liz_friz — 17 years ago(February 05, 2009 01:04 AM)
Doesn't anybody have a creative eye? Surely, you can see that the lighting is all wrong and they are flat.
Look, I have no problem with you all believing in fairies if the image makes them appear realthese just look far too fake.
Tugging my braid since 1991 -
Lazaka — 17 years ago(March 17, 2009 11:39 AM)
They're so fake it's pathetic. I think they were trying to make their families believe so it would make them feel better and give them hope in a troubled time. Else was 16 when she did these and an adult when all the press hit, I suppose that is why she confessed in the end. Besides, you can see the pins, lol.
For someone not to believe the confession is pretty disturbing to me. Believe in Faries if you want (wouldn't we all love it if they were real, but alas I do not believe) but don't discredit someone's confession when they're trying to clear their conscience, it's not very nice.
Mr. President Barack H. Obama
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lulupalooza — 14 years ago(March 10, 2012 10:44 PM)
fantasmic_magik:
"but the last picture. looks different form all the rest. I'm a photography student with Darkroom expirence and even to me it has quality's that make it look real."
I guess you haven't heard or read about that photo. They used double exposure to pull off that 5th photo. By that time, people had been using that technique to hoax ghosts and spirits of loved ones.
As a photography student you will probably learn about historic technique and, hopefully by now, realize how easily it was done. In our current world of digital, the general public rarely does double exposurenow its After Effects, Photoshop, etc. -
lulupalooza — 14 years ago(March 10, 2012 11:07 PM)
fantasmic_magik:
"but the last picture. looks different form all the rest. I'm a photography student with Darkroom expirence and even to me it has quality's that make it look real."
I guess you haven't heard or read about that photo. They used double exposure to pull off that 5th photo. By that time, people had been using that technique to hoax ghosts and spirits of loved ones.
As a photography student you will probably learn about historic technique and, hopefully by now, realize how easily it was done. In our current world of digital, the general public rarely does double exposurenow its After Effects, Photoshop, etc.