PHOTOGRAPHS of fake fairies that tricked the world more than 100 years ago are set to sell for up to €80,000 at an auction later this month. The Cottingley Fairy snaps taken by two children in 1917 ...

Frances Griffiths was pictured with what purported to be a band of fairies in images which shocked the world Cameras which supposedly snapped a group of supernatural sprites playing with two young ...

The Cottingley Fairies appeared in a series of photographs taken by two young cousins and came to the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle THE Cottingley Fairies appeared in a series of five ...

Photos taken in 1917 by cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths were cause of huge controversy Photographs of what is considered to be one of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century are expected to ...

Inspiration can come from anywhere (or nowhere), and on rare occasions, it pulls up a chair and refuses to go away. This was my experience in writing The Cottingley Secret, a novel I was, perhaps, ...

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 Griffiths ...

Jane Cooper is now writing a TV script about “the curse of the Cottingley Fairies” which led her father to ruin. It began when pictures emerged of five mystical creatures in a garden, causing a ...