Category: Fraud Theories

• The "Spirit" Photography Fraud

  This theory claimed that ghost and spirit photographs were not mainly produced by fraudulent photographers or misinterpreted exposures, but were being quietly enabled by camera and film companies—especially Kodak—through the manufacture of film, plates, or processing conditions that encouraged ghostly results. The theory grew from a real history of photographic double exposure, deliberate trick photography, and accidental “ghost” images, all of which made the medium itself seem complicit. In rumor form, photographic companies moved from neutral suppliers to hidden manufacturers of haunting.