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The world of cryptozoology, indeed of the paranormal, Forteana, and world of the weird in general, is so littered with photographic and video hoaxes that they have forever poisoned the viability of such evidence within the field. Indeed, photographs have become nearly useless as evidence in cryptozoology, any potentially genuine photos lost within a quagmire

Following personal tragedy, the creator of that most rational of literary figures, Sherlock Holmes, developed an obsession with spiritualism. Fiona Snailham and Anna Maria Barry Sir Arthur Conan Doyles belief in spiritualism, talking to the dead... and fairies

Throughout the years many people have perpetrated hoaxes - often for publicity, and sometimes just for the hell of it. Of all the hoaxes through history,

IT has taken hundreds of historians and technicians three years to digitise more than 18 million pages of century-old census documents - revealing…

With St Patrick’s Day approaching, it seems only right for us to take a journey through Ireland delving deeper into the ancient history of faerie folklore.

Toronto Star’s Heather Mallick described them as “thoughtless, ahistorical and self-congratulatory” and proclaimed that we must stop trusting photography. When data scientist Samuel Goree tested DeOldify, an AI colourization app, to convert a greyscale copy of Alfred T. Palmer’s 1943 photograph Operating a hand drill at Vultee Nashville, the result produced an image in which the black female subject’s skin was lighter. Interventions like these are not unique among the history of ph...

Grantham schoolgirl inspired to start litter-picking A Grantham schoolgirl has started litter-picking in Little Ponton after being inspired by a school pal. Seven-year-old Elsie Wright, a pupil at Belton Lane Primary School, took matters into her own hands by clearing the streets of rubbish. She was inspired by fellow pupil George who was so dismayed at the amount of litter on his first walk to school last September that he spent an afternoon picking it all up. Elsie has been litter picking in ...

Cocktail stick stirs happy memories of Thatto Heaths Springfield Hotel THE boxes of keepsakes of our parents and grandparents can often contain a quirky little item that will raise a smile or provoke a memory. And among the items kept by St Helens Star reader Julie Devanney was this momento from the Springfield Hotel pub in Thatto Heath. It looks like a plastic cocktail stick, bearing the Greenall Whitley emblem and the name of the pub on one side. And on the other side the name of lice...

THE world famous Cottingley Fairies hoax has inspired a chilling novel exploring post-natal depression. The Cottingley Cuckoo by Alison Littlewood (writing as AJ Elwood) is described as an "eerie reimagining" of the fairy photographs which fooled many people, including scientists and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in the early 20th century. Set in Cottingley, the novel is a gothic take on "the darker side of motherhood" and the terrifying impact of the mischievous fairies of Cottingley Beck thro...

THE 100th anniversary of the Cottingley Fairies - one of the most famous hoaxes of the 20th century - is being marked by a new exhibition. Dr Merrick Burrow, University of Huddersfields Head of English and Creative Writing, is guest curator of the forthcoming exhibition on the Cottingley Fairies at the Treasures of the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds. It is the first time that many of the artefacts from the hoax, which fooled many including Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arth...