Edward Wyllie
Edward Wyllie (1848-1911) was an American medium and spirit photographer.[1]
Wyllie was born in Calcutta, India and moved to California in 1886 to work as a photographer. He also worked as a medium and spirit photographer. His spirit photographs were exposed as frauds.[2] Negatives of pre-made spirit images were found in his house and it was also discovered that Wyllie had used a method of "palming small spirit drawings executed in luminous paint and pressing them to the photographic plate" which he confessed to.[3]
References
- ^ Rodger Anderson (2006). Psychics, Sensitives and Somnambules. McFarland & Company. p. 186. ISBN 978-0786427703
- ^ Joe Nickell. (2005). Camera Clues: A Handbook for Photographic Investigation. The University Press of Kentucky. p. 151. ISBN 978-0813191249
- ^ Gordon Stein. (1996). The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. p. 517. ISBN 978-1573920216