Has The Facebook Photo Mystery Been Solved?

Has The Facebook Photo Mystery Been Solved? . Three men who claim to be the mystery holidaymakers at the centre of a Facebook sensation have told Sky News their story is not a hoax.

These pictures were posted on a Facebook group called Needle In A Haystack

More than 210,000 Facebook users are following Australian Danny Cameron's hunt to find the owner of a camera he found on Mykonos.

He hoped the theory anybody in the world can be contacted within "six degrees of separation" would lead him to find the tourists whose pictures were saved on the memory card.

And three friends have come forward to claim they can end the intrigue.

Pierre Paoli, Edouard Hostein and Julien Kopp have told Sky News Online they are pictured in the holiday snaps.

"It's not a hoax, it is absolutely real," Mr Paoli, who works in London, insisted. "We were on holiday and our friend Marie Cecile lost her camera."

He only discovered the group when a friend stumbled upon it.

Is this Marie Cecile?

Mr Hostein, who separately named Marie Cecile as the owner, described it as an "amazing story, unbelievable".

"I confirm that the camera's owner is one of my friends and I am on a picture with two other friends, Pierre Paoli and Julien Kopp."

When the Facebook group was first created on October 17 it attracted just 40 people. Within days membership had spiralled to nearly 250,000.

Mr Cameron told Sky News Online: "It is a total long shot and could have died in the water, but it looks like the world loves honesty... It's good to see so many people believing in the idea."

He said he was keeping some details secret to help him identify the camera's real owner. He has not commented on the friends' claim. ( sky.com )