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Smile for the Dead: An Examination of Spirit Photography

2025 Released

DocumentaryCrime

1869: William H Mumler stood trial for fraud in New York for claiming to photograph spirits of customers' deceased loved ones. Mumler walked free as experts of the day could not figure his methods. Was he a fraud? Or could he truly photograph the dead?

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H Hamilton Young Ward Self M Mark Osterman Self - Historian C Crista Cloutier Self - Mumler Biographer F Felicity T.C. Hamer Self - Historian L Leslie Young-Ward Self - Grief and Loss Expe Katrina Weidman Self - Paranormal Invesitg