A photo of the loch ness monster is published… or is it?

The famous Cottingley fairy photographs rate as the greatest psychic photographic hoax of the 20th century. Branded “the first deepfake” by the History Channel,1 they have fascinated audiences for gen

In a recent letter (FT455:61), Tom Bryan refers to a claim by a man called Sandy Gunn that, in January 1900, he saw a mermaid. Bryan gives his source for this story as a book by the late Ronald Macdon

The Mammoth by George R Lawrence, 1900

Dick Waters recalls moments that make the hairs stand on the back of your neck

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In mid-June 1892, several hundred Orcadians tried and happily failed to kill a mermaid. The story behind this extraordinary episode (see FT368:54-55) is quickly told. A strange marine creature had, fo