These eerie vintage photographs were created to reveal “spirits.” In actuality, Victorian-era photographers just used double exposures and darkroom manipulation to mimic paranormal phenomena!
"Spirit photography"—a practice that attempts to capture images of ghosts—emerged in the 1860s, coinciding with a rise in spiritualism in the United States.
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Because photography was a misunderstood medium at the time, cunning photographers could trick ordinary citizens into believing that they could reveal the spirits around them.
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Clients would pay for fraudulent seances or sittings.
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And the pictures they got back always had ghosts!
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