IN PICTURES PHOTOGRAPHIC HOAXES
FAIRY HUNTERS, 1917
When cousins Frances Griffiths () and Elsie Wright () produced photos of themselves seemingly interacting with sprites, gnomes and fairies, they achieved overnight notoriety and sparked widespread debate. The validity of the photographs divided opinion for more than 60 years, until Elsie finally confessed to the hoax, in 1983: the fairies were, in fact, drawings secured in the ground