The (mostly) true story of “ghost photography“

William Mumler claimed he could photograph ghosts ... and no one could prove he couldn’t. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: In the mid-1800s, the development of exciting new forms of communication, like photography and the telegraph, was considered miraculous. This technology also coincided with a new religious movement becoming popular in the US and Europe: spiritualism. Spiritualists believed that, through the use of a medium, contact with the dead was possible. During the bloody American Civil War (1861-1865), belief in Spiritualism grew. It was during this time that William Mumler, an amateur photographer in Boston, claimed he could photograph ghosts. He and his wife Hannah, herself a professional photographer and Spiritualist medium, created a stir in Boston by selling these “spirit portraits,“ and attracted the attention of Spiritualists and skeptics alike. Professional photographers in Boston investigated Mumler’s method again and again but co