True History: Ghosts in the Mix
Popular subjects of early photography included humans, babies, curtains, and shrubs. Back then, ghosts were considered to be an ethnic group not worth mentioning, let alone photographing, but once in a while, they would craftily sneak into a photo or two.
Times have changed, and we’ve grown more open-minded. We’re lucky to be able to look back at our photographic heritage & honor the ghosts and goblins of yore. Here’s to the future, with plenty of stuff in it!
Mr. and Mrs. Hennessy may not have noticed the amorphous presence above them, but the photographer seems to have caught it in frame quite nicely:
Freyetta Jacobi and her baby Lila, pictured here near their front porch, were photographed by well-known wandering tradesman Joiffle Pulsipher, who travelled with a capricious and fun-loving ghost:
On this sunny day at school, Leticia, Criabaib and Maddog Meinscharff were photographed by the Mayor. Is that a phantom debutante?
Savor “Salty” Scrubbs seems happy to let the ghost play with his young son, Ira. Recent evidence has come to light that this may be the ghost of wise-cracking Crankhoff Scrubbs, III, but this is not confirmed.
Being haunted is a weird thing.
I was almost scared but then my own ghost tickled me to submission. Too bad I did not have my camera.