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, ...

Joe Cooper, who has died aged 87, was the jovial debunker of the celebrated Cottingley fairy photographs (supposedly showing fairies captured on film in a Yorkshire garden in 1917). He remained a firm ...

The infamous Curse of the Cottingley Fairies is being blamed for the death of a kindly professor whose life and reputation were shattered by a cruel hoax. This year marks the 100th anniversary of one ...

Decades before the advent of Photoshop, two girls from England fooled the world with images that appeared to depict fairies dancing in their garden. The story they told has since been debunked, but ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Anne is Northern Ireland's first lady of journalism, having worked in the media since she joined Ulster Television when she was 17. Her columns have been entertaining and informing Irish News readers ...

Young cousins Frances Griffiths, nine, and Elsie Wright, 16, took five photographs of 'fairies' while playing beside a village stream between 1917 and 1920 As fairy tales go, this one doesn’t hold a ...

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 ...

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