Victorian ghost photography

These photographs of 'spirits' are taken from an album of photographs unearthed in a Lancashire second-hand and antiquarian bookshop by one of the Museum's curators. They were taken by a controversial medium called William Hope (1863-1933).

In the early 1860s, an American photographer named William Mumler developed some self-portraits, and was shocked to see a ghostly female figure ...

When America’s first aerial cameraman met an infamous spirit photographer, the chemistry was explosive

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Ghost hunting is not just something for the SyFy channel. Late 1860's photographer William Mumler discovered the eeriness of double exposure after he took a self portrait that had accidentally been double exposed with a picture of a dead relative. He then decided to cash in on the Victorian obsession with the supernatural and began taking "spirit photographs" for those who were willing to pay.

This site exists to discredit the idea of the Victorian standing post mortem photo. Post mortem photos do exist, but none of them are stand alone.

Vintage promotional photo for a Victorian-era spiritualist.

Shop Surrealistic art by Zouan Kourtis by Zouan located in Athens, Greece.