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 ...

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 ...

Fake news is big news right now. According to certain people, you can’t believe anything you read in the newspapers. However, this certainly isn’t the first time in history the media has been accused ...

Frances Griffiths enchanted the world when she was pictured with what appeared to be a band of fairies The previous owner of the world-famous Cottingley Fairies photographs said he was "amazed" to see ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. The first photo in the Cottingley Fairies series, taken in 1917, ...

WHEN two girls wandered down to Cottingley Beck one summer afternoon in 1917, little did they know that what they did next would become a world-famous story, inspiring countless articles, books, ...

The pictures were taken in 1917 by Elsie Wright and her cousin Frances Griffiths (pictured above) In December 1920 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle unwittingly gave credence to one of the greatest hoaxes of the ...

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 ...

A set of rare photographs of one of the biggest hoaxes of the 20th century are due to go under the hammer in a UK auction house in April. The black and white images, which purported to capture real ...

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 ...

The Cottingley Fairy photographs in the December 1920 edition of The Strand Magazine caused a sensation, and later Conan Doyle’s book The Coming of the Fairies was published (though with the names ...