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 ...

A complete set of world-famous Cottingley Fairies photographs, including one the creator maintained was real, have sold at auction for £3,100. The five images were taken between 1917 and 1920 by ...

Photographs of one of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century have sold for £2,600 at auction - more than twice their estimated worth. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you ...

One of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century began with a sensational headline: Fairies Photographed! The yarn endured for six decades, until a rather disappointing confession in the 1980s confirmed ...

In 1917, two little girls in England photographed fairies dancing and playing around their garden. Their names were Elsie Wright and her cousin Frances Griffiths. The girls told Wright's father that ...

Two photographs which famously fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into believing in fairies have sold at auction for more than ten times their estimated value. The images of the Cottingley Fairies, as they ...

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 ...

A woman who "spent her whole life believing in fairies" was "horrified" to learn the world-famous Cottingley Fairies photographs were a hoax, her son has revealed. The images, taken by Frances ...

A COMPLETE set of Cottingley Fairies photographs sold for £3,100 at an auction this week. The photographs have been entered by members of a Devon farming family who only realised what a rarity they ...

The sale this week of the Cottingley Fairies – the early 20th-century photographs which appear to show two young girls consorting with imps by a stream in west Yorkshire – is a reminder of just how ...

A complete set of the Cottingley Fairies photographs that lay unrecognised in a bureau drawer for almost a hundred years is to go under the hammer in an auction in Lincolnshire on Tuesday. Did you ...