Something that we did not learn in history class as much as I would have liked to

is about the spiritual movement that happened during the mid-19th century after the American Civil War.

During this era, an interesting phenomenon was happening around photography, where photographers

claimed that they would be able to capture images of people's dead relatives, for a fee, of course.

And many people believed it, and would travel long distances and pay significant amounts of money

to sit in front of a camera

and then be able to see their dead relatives once again.

If you have ever watched a paranormal investigation show,

you may already know about what a breakthrough it is when objects are caught in photographs,

when they were not already there to begin with.

Images such as orbs or lines of light, and even faces and full-body apparitions.

But can ghosts actually be captured on camera?

And do we have proof of this happening?

Let's find out.

My name is Edwin, and here's a dark memory.

A man named William Mumbler published a photograph in 1862 that had an image of his cousin.

The media went all out with the reporting of this story because William's cousin had died 12 years earlier.

William had been a jewelry engraver before this happened, and after all that fame that came with the reports,

he decided to begin his own business as a spirit photographic medium, a business he set up in New York and in Boston.

Needless to say, it was very successful.

At the time, both believers and skeptics started sharing their own opinions on this man's

business.

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