Real-life Tinker Bell caught on film!

Or so the woman who accidentally took this intriguing shot believes:

The photo was taken by Phyllis Bacon, who claims that she wasn't even looking when she took the picture, back in 2007. But, why did she wait so long to unveil it, you ask? She says she didn't wanna be labeled as "nutty" for believing she took a pic of a fairy. Sensible reasoning, I suppose.

Whatever your thoughts or beliefs about this may be, you gotta admit it is a neat shot. Mrs. Bacon is adamant that she didn't fake the shot; I'm inclined to believe it. I've seen some stranger shit still caught on film, shit that had verifiably not been faked.

Astonished by what she saw when she glimpsed at the picture, she has spent months seeking a rational explanation.

But after scouring the internet for pictures of butterflies, moths and beetles that might match it, she has drawn a blank.

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

While I applaud her for first seeking a sensible explanation for what she was seeing, it's too bad she ended up reverting to the simplest and least likely answer of them all, that an actual fairy. Especially considering she claims to have spent months searching her backyard for any sign of it at all and found absolutely nothing.

Experts and the simply sceptical will no doubt point to explanations involving reflections, flashes or technical glitches.

Of course. Because one of them is the answer, however odd it may be. But then, reality has often shown itself to be even stranger – far stranger, at times – than fiction.

(via The Daily Grail)
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