In December 1920 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle unwittingly gave credence to one of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th Century when he published the now world-famous Cottingley Fairies photos. But how was ...

Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was convinced the photographs were genuine Two of the famous faked Cottingley Fairies photographs have sold for more than £20,000 at auction.

Over 100 years ago, two young girls released a series of five images appearing to show fairies at the bottom ... magazine by ...

Arthur Conan Doyle, born into a large Catholic family ... in which he had championed faked photographs of wood fairies and goblins that werelater revealed as fakes, did not deter him.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle His interest aroused, Conan Doyle joined the Society for Psychical Research ... The first of five photographs of the Cottingley Fairies It is significant that Conan Doyle refers ...

Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. He trained as a doctor, gaining his degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. He worked as a surgeon on a ...