Mr. Mumler’s Ghosts

A small gallery of some of William H. Mumler's best spirit photographs. (By which I mean "aesthetically pleasing", not "genuine.")

Categories: Arts & Culture, Footsteps into the Unknown, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Supplement

Tags: Abraham Lincoln art Ask a Mortician ghosts Mary Todd Lincoln paranormal spirit photography Spiritualism William Howard Mumler

Published: August 21, 2023

What Joy to the Troubled Heart!

the tale of William H. Mumler, spirit photographer

In 1862, William H. Mumler took the first known photograph of a ghost. Maybe. What unfolded next was an epic story of fraud and self-deception...

Categories: Biography, Footsteps into the Unknown, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, People & Places, Series 13

Tags: Abraham Lincoln Arizona art crime criminal law extra sensory perception ghosts Joseph D. Townsend Mary Todd Lincoln paranormal Phineas Taylor Barnum Presented by #13 pseudo-science religion Spiritualism WIlliam Cornell "Colorado" Jewett William Howard Mumler

Published: August 7, 2023