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The Grief Exploitation of Spirit Photographer William Hope

by Zebulon Kosted

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William Hope (1863 - 1933) was a con artist who manipulated photographs of the recently dead to show them included in later family pictures he had taken portraying them as ghosts. Most people believed that the photos were genuine, but eventually angry family members set Hope up on multiple occasions and exposed his unscrupulous practices. Among those who were deceived were prominent scientists like Physicist Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge and Chemist William Crookes, as well as author Arthur Conan Doyle. A 1969 entry for Hope in The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography described him as "undoubtedly a schizophrenic. On one side of his character was an alert, witty and patently honest North-countryman, whilst on the other hand there was the bogus medium who used prayers and psalm-singing as a cloak for his fraudulent operations."

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released December 17, 2021

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Zebulon Kosted Missoula, montana

Experimental Black Metal, Doom Metal, Dark Folk, Space Ambient and Experimental Electronics.

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