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Psychical researcher Fred Gettings uncovers the fairies and exposes a 60-year-old girlish prank.

November 1978

By Jerome Clark

November 1978- Vol. 31, No. 11

Has the controversy surrounding the Cottingley fairy photo­graphs finally been laid to rest?

For 60 years the question of the authenticity of five pictures taken by cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths of Cottingley, Yorkshire, England, has gone unanswered. Two early analyses, one by Kodak labora­tory technicians, concluded there was no evidence of fakery. And a Mr. Snelling, an expert photographer and employee of a photographic firm, con­cluded the two negatives he examined were entirely genuine, unfaked photo­graphs of single exposure, open-air work, even showing movement in the fairy figures. In 1920, shortly after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had brought the photographs to public attention in an article in The Strand, the Daily News & Westminster Gazette commissioned its Yorkshire reporter to Read the rest of this entry »

by April Slaughter
Researcher, Author & Journalist

Drawing titled "Herbert" by Paulina Cassidy.

J.M. Barrie, author of the classic play Peter Pan, portrayed Tinker Bell as the quintessential fairy; a being of light constantly changing, beautiful, graceful and endearing. According to Barrie, not believing in the existence of fairies meant certain death to them as if being intimately tied into human imagination was intrinsic to their survival. But do fairies actually exist and are they what we grew up picturing them to be? Are they all as inviting as Tinker Bell, ready and willing to grant our every wish and lead us into a world of endless adventure? Read the rest of this entry »

Even the Irish Parliament was concerned when workmen laid down their tools rather than offend the little men.

July-August 1952

by Harold Wilkins

This music was included in the orginal 1952 article. If there are readers out there who can play this music, we would love to hear what it sounds like!

In the summer of 1950 I tramped the roads of southern Ireland. On the road to the Township of Cork I got into an interesting conversation with a man who told me he was a bus conductor. The talk turned to the subject of ban­shees and fairies called, by the old Irish, “good  people.” They are said to be supernatural beings attached to ancient families and to descendants of ancient Irish kings and chieftains. The banshees ap­pear and announce the imminent deaths of members of these old Irish families. The sign of their coming is often an appalling scream in the night, or just before dawn. Read the rest of this entry »

They may explain it as “Wee Folk” or – “signs” but they seem to have some amazing precognitions.

By J. Patrick Waring

December 1959

Ever since we emigrated from Ireland 33 years ago my moth­er’s great dream has been to go back for one visit, with one purpose in mind—to kneel at her parents’ grave and pray. She is an old wo­man now, nearing 80, and her dream will, in all probability, never be fulfilled.

I think, though, it indicates she is a person who would be most un­likely to deceive us (or herself) concerning her parents’ deaths. And she has often told us of the “signs” that foretold the passing of both.

They were farm people, living near Bomacatall, Drunquin, in County Tyrone. My brother and I were born there. Their farm was “fairy land”—and my grandfather, who called the Wee Folk by name, saw to it that the fields were work­ed “around” their ancestral haunts. My mother remembers well the Sithean—green fairy mounds—she believes the Wee Folk still use. Read the rest of this entry »