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Haunted By Pepper's Ghost

Imaginary Worlds

CHAPTER

The Ghost Whisperers

Henry Dierks came up with the idea of creating a theatrical ghost. He hated spiritualists who used parlor tricks to conjure ghosts. So he wanted to outdo them and create the most convincing ghost ever. But no one actually wanted to build a theater to do this. They redesigned the trick to make it more convincing and cost effective.

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