The earliest known example of a photograph that purportedly showed the spirit of a deceased person was published in the Banner of Light (a spiritualist newspaper) by amateur photographer William Mumler (USA) in November 1862.
The picture was a self-portrait that showed Mumler seated against a plain backdrop, with the faint white outline of a woman (which he claimed was his cousin, dead some 12 years ago).
Spirit photography was a popular mediumistic practice in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Photographers would use mysterious processes or secret mixtures of development chemicals to produce images of their living sitters with the spirits of those that they had lost.
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