Spirit Photography
Can ghosts and spirits be captured on film? Several early photographers claimed to have accomplished this feat. Although double exposures are the likely culprit, their images still inspired the idea for HAUNTIBLES. People at the turn of the century weren't as savvy as we are about photographic trickery. Sadly, this attracted a number of charlatans who preyed on the susceptibility of those who'd lost loved ones. These photographers claimed to be able to capture portraits of dearly departed relatives and the results are pretty convincing. Not everyone believed them, however. Experts such as the magician Harry Houdini tried to debunk the images as fakes. Houdini loved to expose the trickery of fraudulent mediums and other supernatural charlatans. An image Houdini created of himself and Lincoln, intended to show how easy it was to create an apparition with the use of double exposure. Despite evidence to the contrary, many people continued to believe these image...