- why aren't the persons posing normally? They are always leaning to something... - Poet Boy
- This is awesome - ~T.Lynn~472000~Soft Images~
- scary - w'photography❜- استغفرك ربي وأتوب
- Ectoplasm - a physical substance that manifests as a result of spiritual energy or psychic phenomenon - Milton Leite
- the face sort of looks animated - scapeGOATofPIE :)
- double exposure is a technique in which a piece of film is exposed twice, to two different images. The resulting photographic image shows the second image superimposed over the first. The technique can be used to create ghostly images or to add people and objects to a scene that were not originally - vintagemodernphotography.com/Virginia
- spirits really used to do this much more at the beginning of photography history. They don't use to do it as frequently as before exactly because of the popularization of editing techniques (such as double exposure).
(: - Joana Joana - I bet you told your mum that the strange substance crusting over your bedsheets was ectoplasm... - davetothegrave
- Aren't ghosts suppossed to bo transparent? - Chris Lanotte
- it's because the exposures were really long - lindsatomica
- :| - Aldo7000
- Aww, they're cuddling. How sweet. - Tara Kinsley
Man with a female spirit
Creator: William Hope (1863 - 1933)
Date: c. 1920
Collection: National Media Museum Collection
Inventory no: 2002-5054/06
A face appears over the man's image on the left of the photograph, covered in a cloak. Although indistinct, the man apparently identified the 'spirit' as an ex-work colleague who had died thirty two years earlier.
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Comments and faves
anniestephens, Su℮ ❥, kaleidoscopic dances of death, highwaygirl67, and 518 other people added this photo to their favorites.
vvitch (56 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Vintage Spirit Photography, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
vegaslamb (56 months ago | reply)
fascniating series of pics, thanks for sharing them
deceuninckan (56 months ago | reply)
oh, i love this one soo much!!!
Jaz the Ginger Ninja (55 months ago | reply)
Really interesting pic I love it Xxx
Snow Flake ♥ (55 months ago | reply)
really cool
roadkill rabbit (55 months ago | reply)
ah, i love all of these so much
Graceeee~ (55 months ago | reply)
So, is it the true scene~?
FlickrBunny (Nanette) (54 months ago | reply)
Sharp!!
wander aimlessly (54 months ago | reply)
Creepy!
Åŀ6ăяҒ.αĺқ7эЭľ { ياناس احبه {~ (54 months ago | reply)
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r e t r o g r a p h e (54 months ago | reply)
I love this kind of pictures :)
HamatoKameko (53 months ago | reply)
That is... actually rather unpleasant. D:
slurpiesandstraws ☮ (53 months ago | reply)
wow... very eerie. i love it.
angela.miller11 (53 months ago | reply)
this awesome pics
CHILL ME OUT (53 months ago | reply)
wow
tiberiousss (52 months ago | reply)
As you can see the ghost has become so bored with this fellow, "it" actually becomes desperate looking for a way out. Looking, searching. For a door, a window, a crack in the cealing. "It" pleads but of course no one can hear it's pain. Then "it"remembers it can vanish into thin air......so the problem resolved itself....true story. The man later became a spirit himself. After many years of being a spirit he retired. He now resides in Europe racing Formula one cars.
juana_meza2001 (52 months ago | reply)
this is very cool....i like the color
jasonbilbo (52 months ago | reply)
by the way the guy is sitting it looks like he is holding an asian doll to the the camera.
EHM ! (52 months ago | reply)
oooooooooooo fantasmagoric!
cltan47 [deleted] (52 months ago | reply)
great shot
marumaru70 (52 months ago | reply)
wow. excellent capture.
مهدخت (52 months ago | reply)
what is it?
FranGarcía [deleted] (51 months ago | reply)
:)))))))))))))))))))))))
patrick.judge42 (51 months ago | reply)
Mittel Euorpean ventriloquist: 'Ve haf vays off making her talk'
anslatadams (51 months ago | reply)
It looks like the spirit of a little girl. I wonder if he had lost any children?
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Ethan Hayes (51 months ago | reply)
BAHAHAHA Fake to the MAX!
nayad3 (50 months ago | reply)
wow!
marie_terese [deleted] (50 months ago | reply)
Wow, so fake!
Pan Tadeusz (50 months ago | reply)
great, great shot!
Curly Chops [deleted] (50 months ago | reply)
i think its fake
swanboat* [deleted] (49 months ago | reply)
great...
patrick.judge42 (49 months ago | reply)
Man with female spirit...Jill Walker
Kathleen Coyle (Emerald Dragon) (49 months ago | reply)
Cool pic
x8tir4zu [deleted] (49 months ago | reply)
The photo is great; The notes are lame.
patrick.judge42 (49 months ago | reply)
I actually agree with the last contributor.
2cute2cut.com.au ( Kerry ) (49 months ago | reply)
fantastic photos
miss_melena ~*here*~ xoxo (49 months ago | reply)
I wonder who she is to him, if anything. ? .
rockyourbody♥ (49 months ago | reply)
nice picture♥
Lia Udi (49 months ago | reply)
female? but looks like she's got a mustache!
Jannatun ashraf (48 months ago | reply)
nice .i belive it.
oud_lyoko (48 months ago | reply)
Very XXXXX
ugo dap (47 months ago | reply)
intriguing..
[SuperBem.SuperMara] [deleted] (47 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called ENGINEERS OF THE COSMOS..., and we'd love to have this added to the group!
EmperorNorton47 (46 months ago | reply)
Ah, the forgeries you could wreak with film.
Gowri Clicks (46 months ago | reply)
lol....it looks really fake...although it would have taken considerable talent during those times to fake something like this...
EmperorNorton47 (46 months ago | reply)
Not really. Just expose the lens with one image then reexpose it with the other. Intermediate photography. (In the old days.)
pimnara (45 months ago | reply)
Beautiful shot !! Congrats on Explore!!
gruitt (45 months ago | reply)
promotional poster for Saw 8?
heshiphoto (45 months ago | reply)
great!