Tinkerbell Caught on Camera

By Miss Cellania in Pictures on Sep 9, 2009 at 10:29 am

Phyllis Bacon of the London Borough of Croydon wasn’t even looking into the camera when she shot a photograph of her backyard in 2007. When she saw the picture, she couldn’t figure out what was flying around.

‘I think it must be a fairy,’ she said yesterday as she made the picture public for the first time.

‘No one I’ve shown the photos to has come up with any plausible explanation as to what the figure is.’ The photo reminds some of the Cottingley fairies, photographed in a West Yorkshire garden in 1917.

See the entire picture with the story. Link -via Unique Daily

Previously at Neatorama: The Cottingley Fairies in Five Hoaxes that Fooled the World.

Tags: fairy, photograph

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linty
Sep 9th, 2009 at 10:52 am
the quality of cameras in general has improved so much in the past few decades and yet we still don’t have a single sharp paranormal photo…so strange!
FishBottleT
Sep 9th, 2009 at 10:52 am
I think that it is a bug that was flying towards the camera and the flash from the camera reflected off of it making it look like it does. Or mabey it is a Fairy. But probably a bug.
Skipweasel
Sep 9th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Looks uncommonly like a moth to me. The dangly bits result from movement during the longish exposure.
Roody!
Sep 9th, 2009 at 11:18 am
I’m thinking it’s either a bug or perhaps a humming bird. Either way it’s blurry and engulfed in the light if the flash, so it could be a fairy for all I know.
BJN
Sep 9th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Looks like a flying katydid to me. Of course a fairy is a much more reasonable and sensible explanation. There are so many fairies in museum collections, after all. And flying insects are so uncommon.
JohnMofre
Sep 9th, 2009 at 11:41 am
a fairy… LOL
felixthecat
Sep 9th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Insect, just like the amazing flying rods:

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Lady Helena Handbasket
Sep 9th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
If only she had grabbed a can of Raid instead of a camera, we would have known for sure. Sigh.
cola82
Sep 9th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Great, now I’m going to have to clap like a madwoman to bring her back! You horrible skeptic’s killing Tinker Bell! *sob*
Tempscire
Sep 9th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
No one she should the image to came up with “moth”? Or she didn’t consider moth to be as plausible as a fairy? Ah, people…
JaneM
Sep 9th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
It’s a Fairy Moth! Bzzzz bzzz
Manticore
Sep 9th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
*facepalm* it looks just like a june bug or some other beetle.
catskill
Sep 9th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
No one she knows has a plausible explanation? No one??
Athon
Sep 9th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
How hard has this person tried? Thrown up on the internet, we immediately get half a dozen people recognising that it’s a blurred bug…

I think some people simply so want there to be fairies, they’ll do their best to ignore reality. If that’s the case, why bother with the photo at all?
Carl
Sep 9th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
I knew a fantastically intelligent and talented girl in college who really believed fairies existed. Of course she also did vampire LARP so…you know.

Obviously it’s an insect hit by the flash.
Gauldar
Sep 9th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Bring on the mothmen!
Varis
Sep 9th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Sorry, it’s only a moth. A simple explanation for “the legs” and “the arms” is technical. In automatic flash mode digital cameras trigger a smaller preflash to measure the correct strenght for rapidly following actual flash. During the preflash very fastly moving wings were in a different position and left visible mark against the dark background. Sorry, that I crushed your dreams, but maybe in the next time it’s for real.
Wes
Sep 9th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
“No one I’ve shown the photos to has come up with any plausible explanation as to what the figure is.”

This is paranormal-fanatic speak for “No one has come up with any explanation I will accept.”
LisaL
Sep 9th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Wes… heh.. so true, so true.
redphone
Sep 9th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
I’m too jaded to appreciate the whimsy.
sara
Sep 10th, 2009 at 4:34 am
Clearly just a flying Cockchafer (May bug). I hate those things, they fly up out of the grass as you walk across and don’t seem to mind getting entangled in your hair, ugh…
Mouserz
Sep 10th, 2009 at 7:07 am
Oh wow, an out of focus bug.
Morgan
Sep 10th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Whether its a fairy or not, anyone who has watched Torchwood, should know better than to mess with fairies.
elizabeth
Feb 28th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
wow….a real fairy!!!!!!!!
bailey
Feb 28th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
dude, that is some paranormal freaky thing…..i hope there is not more ?

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