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The Spectral Voyager Episode 1: The Curious Case of William Mumler

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The First Selfie

Amateur photographer William Mumbler began offering to photograph the dead for $10 per sitting. The fee was nearly 40 times the usual price of a photo session, which was normally about 25 cents. One woman claimed that her supposedly dead brother had returned home safely from the civil war after being killed in battle. A mail-in service where people could include a description of their past-on-loved one, as well as $7.50, and Mumbler would send them back a haunted photograph.

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