Édouard Isidore Buguet telekinesis

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Posted on Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Uploaded by Saru

Image credit: Édouard Isidore Buguet (1875)

Uploader comment: An image from 1875 in which Édouard Isidore Buguet allegedly levitates a chair through telekinesis.

Image status: HOAX A well known hoax, Buguet was actually sent to prison in the same year this was taken for fraudulent activities including the production of fake ghost photographs.

Recent comments on this image

#10 Posted by Miketar on 12/17/2010

What an idiot!!! Now he's in the nuthouse.

#9 Posted by Vademinem II on 12/19/2010

wtf??wow!!

#8 Posted by Kleng on 2/27/2011

Wow, he got sent to prison for faking photographs? That's a little extreme.

#7 Posted by Rico Nomak on 3/19/2011

ha ha

#6 Posted by KoasTheory on 3/29/2011

You guys are talking in the present tense...this happened like over a hundred plus years ago.

#5 Posted by AmyLouise on 6/17/2011

was it fake?

#4 Posted by indexvoid on 6/18/2011

waaaaaaaaa.

#3 Posted by kitco on 6/18/2011

man I didnt know the freak show was in town? lol pretty cool tho.

#2 Posted by Gohot on 11/23/2011

It just seems like yesterday Buguet and I were having a drink in the saloon....

#1 Posted by Cruel_Cahal on 11/22/2014

I love Victorian era photos. I don't care what kind of fakery is in them, and the fakery is EASY to spot.

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