and they had the photos to prove it ... 16-year-old Elsie Wright and her nine-year-old cousin, Frances Griffiths, believed in fairies. But when they came back from the bottom of their garden ...

Frances Griffiths, nine, and Elsie Wright ... Frances finally confessed the photos were a hoax, adding she was surprised anyone ever took them seriously. The bombshell caused the professor's ...

Alice and the Fairies, featuring nine-year-old Frances, was sold for £1,050. A 100-year-old print of the famous Cottingley Fairies photo hoax has sold for £1,050 at auction. The original ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of one of the greatest scams of the 20th century perpetuated by cousins Frances Griffiths ... with Hitler 's diaries and photos of the Loch Ness Monster.

This week, a movie based on the sensation surrounding Elsie and her younger cousin, Frances Griffiths ... backs of them and the hat pins when the photo was being taken. The girls had copied ...

Frances Griffiths was pictured with what purported ... area of Bradford with what appeared to be magical creatures. The photos caused a worldwide sensation at the time, though towards the end ...

The two images of the apparently mythical beings were taken in July and September 1917 by 16-year-old Elsie Wright and her nine-year-old cousin Frances Griffiths, in Cottingley, a small village ...

They're the photos that fooled the world and caused ... Towards the end of their lives Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths ...

"When the girls took the photos there were a few prints made ... Speaking to the BBC in 1983, Frances Griffiths said: "I never even thought of it being a fraud. It was just Elsie and I having ...

"When the girls took the photos there were a few prints made ... Speaking to the BBC in 1983, Frances Griffiths said: "I never even thought of it being a fraud. It was just Elsie and I having ...