British Man Claims To Have Photographed Actual Fairies

Clap your hands if you believe!

Could these tiny winged creatures be real fairies?

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John Hyatt from the Rossendale Valley in Lancashire believes they are.

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The 53 year-old Manchester Metropolitan University lecturer has been photographing the creatures for the past two years. At first, he didn't realise what he was capturing in his images. "It was a bit of a shock when I blew them [the photos] up," he told The Daily Mail. "I went out afterwards and took pictures of flies and gnats and they just don’t look the same."

Here's a closer look.

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Do they look like fairies?

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Or flying insects?

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Or is it all a hoax, like the Cottingley Fairies?

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In 1920, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths' photographs of frolicking fairies convinced many photographic experts at the time, but were finally debunked in the 1970s as shots of post cardboard cut-outs.

"There are stranger things in life than fairies," says John Hyatt, who will display these photographs at The Whitaker Museum in Rossendale through spring.

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"People can decide for themselves what they are."

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