Edward Wyllie
Edward Arthur Sanders Wyllie (28 January 1848[1] – 6 March 1911) was a British medium and spirit photographer.[2]
Wyllie was born in Calcutta, British India, as a British subject, and moved to England as a small boy.[3] He 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.[4][5] 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.[6]
He died in London in 1911.[citation needed]
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- ^ India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786–1947
- ^ Anderson, Rodger. (2006). Psychics, Sensitives and Somnambules: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographies. McFarland & Company. p. 186. ISBN 978-0786427703
- ^ 1851 England Census
- ^ Nickell, Joe. (2005). Camera Clues: A Handbook for Photographic Investigation. University Press of Kentucky. p. 151. ISBN 978-0813191249
- ^ Jolly, Martyn. (2006). Faces of the Living Dead: The Belief in Spirit Photography. Miegunyah Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0712348997
- ^ Stein, Gordon. (1996). The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. p. 517. ISBN 978-1573920216
