Edward Wyllie

Alleged spirit photograph produced by Wyllie.

Edward Wyllie (1848-1911) was an American medium and spirit photographer.^[1]

Wyllie was born in Calcutta, India and moved to California in 1886 to work as a photographer. He also worked as a medium and spirit photographer. His spirit photographs were exposed as frauds.^[2][3] Negatives of pre-made spirit images were found in his house and it was also discovered that Wyllie had used a method of "palming small spirit drawings executed in luminous paint and pressing them to the photographic plate" which he confessed to.^[4]

References

1. Anderson, Rodger. (2006). Psychics, Sensitives and Somnambules: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographies. McFarland & Company. p. 186. ISBN 978-0786427703
2. Nickell, Joe. (2005). Camera Clues: A Handbook for Photographic Investigation. University Press of Kentucky. p. 151. ISBN 978-0813191249
3. Jolly, Martyn. (2006). Faces of the Living Dead: The Belief in Spirit Photography. Miegunyah Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0712348997
4. Stein, Gordon. (1996). The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. p. 517. ISBN 978-1573920216