Photographs of one of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century have sold for £2,600 at auction - more than twice their estimated worth. Pictures of the Cottingley Fairies were taken in 1917 by Elsie ...

THE centenary of the Cottingley Fairies photographs hoax will be marked with a fun day. The images of cut-out fairies stuck on to trees with hat-pins, taken by cousins Frances Griffiths and Elsie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dominic Brunt has opened up about the moment he thought he saw a fairy at the house where the Cottingley Fairies photographs were ...

When she was 16 years old, Christine Lynch was sitting with her brother David in their family home in Nottinghamshire, talking about, of all things, the possible existence of parallel worlds. This ...

As the centenary of the Cottingley Fairies approaches, Jane Cooper tells Sarah Freeman how one of the most famous hoaxes of the 20th century came to rule her father's life. Jane Cooper is a Gemini.

Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was convinced the photographs were genuine The famous faked Cottingley Fairies photographs are to be sold at auction. Pictures of dancing pixies were ...

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Children Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright fooled the world with five photographs of "living fairies” they snapped playing near a village stream between 1917 and 1920 The tall tale of living fairies ...

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