In 1917, 16-year-old Elsie Wright and her nine-year-old cousin Frances Griffiths took photos with the “Cottingley Fairies” in the village of Cottingley, near Bingley in West Yorkshire. (29/77)

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In 1917, 16-year-old Elsie Wright and her nine-year-old cousin Frances Griffiths took photos with the "Cottingley Fairies" in the village of Cottingley, near Bingley in West Yorkshire.

One of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century, they only admitted the photos were faked in 1983.

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