Spirit photography was first used by William H. Mumler in the 1860′s. Mumler discovered the technique by accident, after he saw a second person in a photograph he took of himself, which he found was actually a double exposure. Seeing there was a market for it, Mumler started working as a medium, taking people’s pictures and doctoring the negatives to add lost loved ones into them (mostly using other photographs as basis). Mumler’s fraud was discovered after he put identifiable living Boston residents in the photos as spirits.
This photograph is Mary Todd Lincoln with the “spirit” of Abraham Lincoln
Sounds like something Carl Collins would have done.
With the Collins luck, he’d get a real ghost photo mixed in with his fraud ghost photos.
