Meet the man who snapped the world’s first photograph of a ghost (or so he claimed)

[Still Waters]

William Mumler couldn’t explain it. He was having his first go at the photographic process, when a self-portrait he had taken developed to reveal a mysterious apparition of a girl by his side. Mumler was alone when he photographed himself in a friend’s studio—what or who then was this spectral figure? Unfazed, he shared the picture with his friends as a lark. That is, until it reached a spiritualist journal, which decided he had captured, quite obviously, a ghost.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/eureka-spirit-photography-william-mumler-2560743

[Antigonos]

The first spirit photographer scam artist.

You see, you forgot the parts about him doing this by using the double exposure method, and his profiting monetarily off of the gullible rich with his “ghost photographs”.

And of course him being sued after he was exposed.

[Still Waters]

18 minutes ago, Antigonos said:

The first spirit photographer scam artist.

You see, you forgot the parts about him doing this by using the double exposure method, and his profiting monetarily off of the gullible rich with his “ghost photographs”.

And of course him being sued after he was exposed.

All that is in the source link.