Could fairies exist?

Believing hasn’t always been easy in a fairy-sceptic world. No one wants to end up like

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was humiliated by his very public championing of the Cottingley Fairies. In 1917, two young cousins photographed cardboard cut-outs in their garden, persuaded the likes of Sir Arthur that they were real fairies, only then to eventually reveal their fakery. Happily, 97 years later, came real proof, in the form of photographs taken by John Hyatt – a university lecturer, no less

– in the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire. “They were just enjoying themselves and there was a little dance in the sunlight going on,” he told the Daily Mail.