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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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 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 ...

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Now’s your chance to own a piece of hoax history: two of the infamous Cottingley fairy photos, through which a couple of girls convinced an impressive number of influential people that fairies were in ...

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 ...