Case file · High strangeness
William Hope's spirit photographs exposed
William Hope of the Crewe Circle made 'spirit photographs' with faces of the dead floating beside sitters; in February 1922 Harry Price caught him swapping marked plates.
1922 CE · 53.10, -2.44 · status: hoax
The account
Hope had many supporters, including Arthur Conan Doyle, who defended him after the exposure.
The sceptical view
Double exposures and plate swaps; Price's marked plates showed the fraud.
Connections in the atlas
- Cold Light on Spiritualistic "Phenomena" (the William Hope exposure)