The Cottingley Fairies appeared in a series of photographs ... In 1966 a reporter from the Daily Express found one of the cousins, Elsie Wright, and after she said she thought she had photographed ...

The infamous Curse of the Cottingley Fairies is being blamed for the death ... perpetuated by cousins Frances Griffiths, nine, and Elsie Wright, 16. They fooled the whole world with five ...

Pictures of the Cottingley Fairies were taken in July and September 1917 by 16-year-old Elsie Wright and her nine-year-old cousin Frances Griffiths in the village of Cottingley, West Yorkshire.

My mother knew Elsie Wright. Elsie was older than my mother ... people still seem fascinated by the story of the Cottingley Fairies - even making their mark on Hollywood! It was just a few years ...

These shots, known as the Cottingley Fairies photos ... Like many young girls, 16-year-old Elsie Wright and her nine-year-old cousin, Frances Griffiths, believed in fairies.

And the unlikely perpetrators of the Cottingley Fairies hoax? Two young girls, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1917, with the world at war, cousins Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright were just ...

Cameras used to create images of the famous Cottingley Fairies are among the ... The cameras were used by young cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths between 1917 and 1920 to take five ...

Conan Doyle’s book was about the Cottingley Fairies, the celebrated case in which two young girls, Elsie Wright and her cousin Frances Griffiths, took photographs behind Elsie’s home in the ...

Pictures of the Cottingley Fairies were taken in July and September 1917 by a 16-year-old girl called Elsie Wright - along with her nine-year-old cousin Frances Griffiths - in the village of ...

He also lectured in sociology, was interested in the paranormal and much of his life he was obsessed with the Cottingley Fairies. Elsie Wright (left) and Frances Griffiths (right), the two girls ...