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Strange Country

Sometimes you need to have a glass of wine, cuppa whatever and listen to a good old weird story. Musical score Resting Place by A Cast of Thousands.

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Jul 5, 2018

Spiritualism meets photography in episode 48 of Strange Country. William Mumler found a way to connect people with their loved ones by staging live/dead photoshoots. Some skeptics cried fraud while others lined up for the spirit camera.

Theme music: Resting Place by A Cast of Thousands.

Cite Your Sources Man…

Manseau, Peter. The Aparitionists.

Fabrizio, Doug. Interview with Peter Manseau. http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/man-who-captured-lincolns-ghost

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/meet-mr-mumler-man-who-captured-lincolns-ghost-camera-180965090/

Garber, Megan . When Cameras Took Pictures of Ghosts, The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/when-cameras-took-pictures-of-ghosts/281010/