The 19th-Century Spirit Photography Grift

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Caitlin Doughty: Ghost for Hire
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**PRODUCTION CREDITS**
Mortician and Writer: Caitlin Doughty
Producer and Writer: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1)
Editor & Graphics: Andy Windak
This video was greatly informed by the book "The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost" by Peter Manseau. Thank you Mr. Manseau, for your insightful, exhaustive research as well as your engaging storytelling.
Another invaluable resource was the book “The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer” by Louis Kaplan. Thank you Mr. Kaplan, for so artfully gathering such a wealth of Mumler documentation.
**SELECTED SOURCES & ADDITIONAL READING**
Manseau, Peter
The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. New York, 2017.
Kaplan, Louis
The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer
University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
“But it looks so real! The parallel rise of photography and Spiritualism”
www.artstor.or...
“Alexander Gardner Saw Himself as an Artist, Crafting the Image of War in All Its Brutality”
www.smithsonia...
“Spirit Photography Captured Love, Loss and Longing”
theconversatio...
“When Cameras Took Pictures of Ghosts”
www.theatlanti...
“A History of Photographing Ghosts”
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@AskAMortician 2 года назад

While we were editing this video, Vox also released a video on spirit photography. (Folks, we had thought we were being SO original.) We contacted them and they were great about it. We didn't copy them, they didn't copy us- the more spirit photography videos the merrier! Link to theirs in the description.

@katrinaumana2127 2 года назад

Thank You Mother Death 💖 for still producing content even during the pandemic, inflation, and wars.

@Nylak-Otter 2 года назад

I watched that video when it came out, and I just had a weird deja vu moment. Quite a coincidence! 😆

@MaxCutler. 2 года назад

I just ordered all ur books

@bnwo 2 года назад

You're a million times better than Vox.

@mistysharrar1878 2 года назад

I get so excited when you upload a new video. Been a death enthusiast for a while. My whole family knows I want cremation. Love you and your videos

@heatherp5454 2 года назад

Is it just me or does everyone totally geek out when they see the notification that Caitlin posted a new video?!?

@victoriawilliams2786 2 года назад

Not just you! This just made getting out of bed worth it. 🤣

@imberrysandy 2 года назад

🙋🏾‍♀️gardening this morning is going to be awesome

@railehtdoe2907 2 года назад

@@imberrysandy Ohmygod i do the same thing! Started doing it during lockdowns and now it’s just a whole thing.

@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 2 года назад

Nope! I even wake up to watch her videos. I'm in Australia so usually when Caitlin's videos drop it's at 3 or 4 in the morning here.

@RubyBlueUwU 2 года назад

I’ve been binging her videos again recently and when I saw this upload I squealed a little!

@growingayeard1061 2 года назад

"Be Your Own Ghost" is sure to be the best selling paperback of Hot Girl Summer 2022.

@dangitgayle555 2 года назад

If this isn’t her next book title I’ll be very disappointed lol

@michaelsnider2484 2 года назад

Don't bother me. I'm partying in the darkroom!

@LucianCorrvinus 2 года назад

Hey as long as it's not Omegaverse, I'm in...

@dortesandal4303 2 года назад

😂😂😂

@craisins95 2 года назад

I’ll be disappointed if I don’t hear Be Your Own Ghost (Party in the Dark Room) next time I go to the club.

@ChrisGirard 2 года назад

I used to do this with a 30-second long exposure on a digital Canon Rebel. The shutter is set to close after 30 seconds or longer and the aperture is as tiny as possible. The front person stands still the entire time, the back person stands still for ten seconds and then quickly walks out of the frame. The long exposure also creates that eerie expressionless look of Victorian portraiture.

@cygnahoshiko4629 2 года назад

Personally, even if Mumler was intentionally making up the spirit photos, it doesn't bother me as much as a lot of other forms of ghost fraud. I think because it was a one-time payment for a physical object, not promising direct contact with a dead loved one and then using it to make someone come back, and pay, over and over again. It feels less exploitative to me.

@nomdeplume2213 2 года назад

Right. Im sure it brought endless hope to a lot of grieving ppl and those of us who have lost loved ones and felt that trauma and grief can attest to how debilitating it can be. If he helped ease their grief without extorting them, i say go for it. He charged them for a picture and thats what he provided. Its not like a medium giving you nothing but lies and fantasy.

@princesseville6889 2 года назад

I cannot even be mad for the people who shipped their picture to him to recieve a picture with a random ghost back. Thats exactly what they wanted and it really helped with grief i guess.

@RadenWA 2 года назад

Like Caitlyn said, these are real works of art with actual value. People gain spiritual satisfaction from art whether it’s real or fiction

@anonymoose116 2 года назад

And I'm sure a lot of buyers knew it was fake, and wanted a conversation piece.

@helenl3193 2 года назад

Even if the random ghost didn't look like their lost loved one(s) it might have been a comfort to be able to think that it was proof of something beyond death and that they would eventually be reunited. That kind of hope is a powerful gift for someone who is in the depths of despair, and isn't leading/manipulative in other ways - like some mediums might tell people their relatives wanted them to do certain things, or manipulate them into bankrolling the medium, etc.

@carolefreeman2544 2 года назад

I love the one taken of Abe’s wife with his “Spirit” with his hands on her shoulders. Even if she knew this was faked, it’s a nice memory for her.

@AlexBabbage 2 года назад

Yeah, that one I really like. It must have meant a lot to her to have that photo.

@lonestar1637 2 года назад

Mary Todd Lincoln desperately needed it too, i think. She never got over the death of their young son while Lincoln was President, and then to have her husband shot in the head while sitting next to him. She was a very emotionally complex woman, who in many ways was not suited for what life being married to Lincoln became. She really was a tragic figure.

@seir323 2 года назад

This is why I think some of these photos were truly valuable to those who sat for them.

@CheckersAndRecords 2 года назад

Agreed, such a stunning image. It being the last photo of her life gives the message that he is waiting for her to join him and their child in the afterlife.

@AccidentalNinja 2 года назад

Some people have known, even if just in the back of their minds, that the photographs were fake, but wanted or needed the closure of having just one last image of themselves with their loved ones.

@KathyTrithardt 2 года назад

I'm definitely going to wake up someday singing "Party in the Darkroom" to myself and then wonder where the heck that came from.

@Nessainthebuilding 2 года назад

Oh glad I'm not the only one

@mazarinf5130 2 года назад

Trying to recreate old photography these days is SUCH a challenge, unless you have your own darkroom and chemicals, etc. My husband has a few medium format cameras, and has rigged up ways to use them with modernish film - but film is so hard to come by now, and darkroom space, even for use for a fee, is disappearing. I'm so glad that there are organizations out there ready to maintain the art of physical hard copy photography - and it really is an art. Thanks for this video!

@novi1912 2 года назад

I wish I could pick Caitlin to be my mortician when the time comes. Having one lined up should be like having a regular hairstylist.

@WouldntULikeToKnow. 2 года назад

Right? Kinda sad that I moved out of southern California because of that lol

@emilinebelle7811 2 года назад

If she dies before you, you’d have to switch stylists.

@laurawickham1506 2 года назад

I need to find out what it takes to be buried in my family cemetary not embalmed nor cremated. I want my funeral within the first few days and put down into the dirt. That might mean less people if I die on a Monday and they can't get there by Wednesday or Thursday or whatever though. Idk. I just want to be buried natural

@pmdk1953 Год назад

@@laurawickham1506 Tell your family how you want it done.

@Rugelacharugula 9 месяцев назад

⁠@@laurawickham1506now you can be buried in a tree pod.

@MagpieRat 2 года назад

If Mumler's first photo was accidental, and he intended himself to be the only subject... why is the composition such that both figures are equally weighted in the frame? If he intended it just to be him, wouldn't he be central in the frame? Slight whiff of shenanigans, even at that early point, Mr. M!

@lzal3583 2 года назад

I was thinking that as well. Why even have the chair taking up 1/2 the photo? Silly.

@dogwalker666 2 года назад

Double exposure was already a known SFX it was a grift from day 1.

@robertawalsh2995 2 года назад

I don't know what he intended but I have several late 19th century cabinet cards with the subject on one side and a chair or a curtain taking up more than half of the photo. One has a side table. I thought it was a stylistic choice. Like a photographer who keeps a red rubber ball in his studio and poses all children holding it.

@BunniBeshara 2 года назад

The “rule of thirds” in photography - adds more visual interest to the photo when the subject is in the far left or far right of the photo.

@mattakins3557 2 года назад

It might not have been the original photograph, but one that he replicated to perfect his craft?

@johnlavery3433 2 года назад

So I’ve been sick the whole week, today is the first day where I’m feeling remotely human, and this is exactly what I needed to start my weekend

@LucretiaPearl 2 года назад

You too?! Glad you're feeling better too! Also, heck yes, this is the way to start off the weekend!

@beckerthenbeck 2 года назад

These is a cemetery here in Reno,NV called “Hillside” and it has had developers really wanting to build on top of it. The history of the cemetery would make an awesome video for you!

@leviathan8215 2 года назад

This is SO COOL! My dad would have loved this video, he was a photographer and passed his love for it to me. I'm nerding out about this in his honor

@TheCinder24 2 года назад

I just saw some of the Mumler photos as part of a Supernatural Art exhibit at the Minneapolis Art Institute this weekend. They had a lot of spiritualism paintings, autowriting examples and ouija boards. Amazing to see in person.

@thelonleyUchiha1 2 года назад

The thought of these kinda photos kinda makes me so sad cause…thinking of Mary Todd Lincoln and how much the death of her husband affected her and what happened to her so…the photo of her makes me sad cause I wish it was real for her

@fridaibarria8988 2 года назад

“It would come back to haunt him…. Because it’s spirit photography” 💀😂

@adriangibson3153 2 года назад

I really enjoyed hearing you share about when you were a teenager and printed a David Brewster and framed it. I think it is a lovely story ☺️

@lisaalane7694 2 года назад

Outside in a hammock with a prolonged illness, at times thinking my next resting place could be a coffin. Excited I found a video I had over looked, but also happy my kids know Caitlin gave me lots of options. 🤣

@kimyesh4432 Год назад

This video is one of my current favorites. I've only just recently stumbled upon "Ask a Mortician" and find them hilariously entertaining and wonderfully informative.

@kellynorvell3472 2 года назад

I just loved this video. One of the more interesting ones i have seen in awhile. Thank you so much for taking the time to show us this cool subject. Love your channel💕

@smstnitc 2 года назад

this was fascinating, I love watching this, and learning the history! I've seen these old pictures cited as "proof" of early ghost photos for years, and I've always wondered how they were really made, and the stories behind them!

@1234cheerful 2 года назад

I love your ghost portrayal! Classic look! With digital photography, there's the end of the "party in the darkroom!" Life is the poorer for it, I am sure.

@wwirelesswwizard 2 года назад

This is really fascinating to me. I'm always intrigued by the question of how certain types of art (or even just everyday tasks) were made or achieved back in the past. It reminds me of two things: #1 Some of Bernadette Banner's videos, where she makes historical garments with historically accurate techniques, and #2 the show "A Stitch in Time," where they do much the same thing, only they use those techniques to recreate specific real outfits from history (ex. the Black Prince's quilted armor coat). I feel like there's a lot of value in not just knowing the tit-for-tat chain of events from history, but also to explore the culture(s) that they lived in, down to some of the "smallest" parts of their everyday lives. It helps us build a sense of empathy for them and really feel connected to them so that we can understand the events that they lived though better than just learning the textbook version of it all.

@j_tells9711 2 года назад

3:16 Caitlin. "Ohhh, historic mystery" Me: It was RATS!!!

@manda1123889 2 года назад

The ending is the best. I need that song lol love it. Thanks to everyone involved!

@elizabethwarman9028 2 года назад

My Great Grandma Annie Prudence Mears-Sefton was a Spiritualist. She held, according to my Mom, seacic( spelling) reading hand palms, predicting the future using playing card. My Mom's Mom taught me everything her mother-in-law did. It is truly a great grift.

@stacywright634 2 года назад

This has been on my Watch Later list for awhile, and I finally had time to watch. Love it. But why the change of title?

@chasehauser7053 2 года назад

I need you to know I have been FULL on dancing and singing to this full musical number and will be singing it for years to come BE YOUR OWN GHOST 🎶 🤘 Literally the most unforgettable RU-vid outro on this website holy moly

@KatherineDattilo 2 года назад

Love this so much, what a fun topic

@tt600pch Год назад

We used to take pictures and would have bubbles or orbs in them. Certain places we would take pictures had more orbs than other places. When we switched to a digital camera and went to the same places orbs were there as well. Visit Virginia City Montana or The Yogo Inn at Lewistown Montana during the summer and take some pictures sometime. Daylight and dark quite often orbs would be in pictures.

@DarkTypeWriter 6 месяцев назад

Wonderful, awesome topic and such a great way to explore it, explain it. Love the summary/end note.

@DivineREDxo 2 года назад

They are beautiful photos and works of art, you're absolutely right. I would totally go to an exhibit of these photos. What a cool topic to cover.

@zelda_tickell 2 года назад

Sorry was that opening shot done with a stabilizer? Absolutely stunning, the cinematography is delightful

@laurabaker8832 2 года назад

This is actually a cool video. Could probably write a doctoral thesis on grieving practices in various cultures. Hold a Wake, Have a Funeral, sink me in the river at dawn : the possibilities are endless.

@Phoenix-ej2sh 2 года назад

Easily the best outro in the history of RU-vid.

@JaypetalJayfeather 2 года назад

I found this video during a lecture in Louis Kaplan's class on spirit photography, so I was able to share it with him! The whole class finds it really interesting how Mumler has become all the more relevant these last few months

@2410-s9l 2 года назад

I saw a documentary years ago which showed the shroud of Turin was done with a corpse, sheet and the sun which over time printed an image of the corpse on the shroud but I can't remember the details but this vid reminds me of that. I'm going to see if I can find it

@9852323 2 года назад

It’s insane that they took something so ridiculous to court.

@terciasouto1582 2 года назад

Party in the dark room is a bop!

@littlemiss_76 Год назад

In highschool we did double exposure photography for a bit of fun

@Myriako 2 года назад

Wonderful ! Thank you for this video ! 😊💐

@DuanTorruellas 10 месяцев назад

I love your hair Caitlin. Jet black and perfect bangs.

@llouie4999 2 года назад

What a lot of twists & turns by someone who seemed to start this all as a lark. During the trial I was wondering if the prosecution was going to bring in a living photo sitters / voluntary "ghosts" to try to discredit

@washingtonradio 2 года назад

Interesting to see how spirit photos could have been made in the 19th century. It would be interesting to see how it could be with both modern film cameras and digital camera. Modern films are much faster than collodion plates Mumler was likely using.

@airohtheenby 2 года назад

The end song is such a bop though! 😂🙌🙌

@raegenjacobs4917 2 года назад

This women stole my heart ❤️

@smokyquartz5817 2 года назад

Wonderful video, beautiful ghost.

@l2k55 2 года назад

Thanks for another great video. Love your channel!

@lindabb621 2 года назад

Dear Mortician, Damn girl you are hilariously informative with a wonderful dramatic flair. THANK YOU!

@davekent20 2 года назад

Is it true that pictures back in the day pictures were so expensive that people would take pictures of the dead looking alive and that would be the only picture? Thanks Dave

@LucianCorrvinus 2 года назад

Yes...but not always alive looking....photos of the dead were just as evident....

@justlurkingthrough6267 2 года назад

Hi Dave! I’m taking a course on Death and Dying right now, and I can confirm to you that, yes! During the advent of photography, it was far too expensive for the average family to afford pictures - but when a loved one passed (especially children), the family scrounged up what they could and purchased a single photograph with the deceased loved one, often depicted as either peacefully sleeping, or actively posed to appear alive and active. It’s very intriguing stuff!

@davekent20 2 года назад

@@justlurkingthrough6267 that sounds like a interesting course . Thanks Dave

@donrose1433 2 года назад

You, my dear, are such a pleasure to watch. Great sense of humour and beautiful!!!

@igorstranenski5418 2 года назад

The way I did it was , long exposures with with with small aperture. Leave the shutter open for 20 sec have the subject run into scene stop and hold a pose for three seconds then run out of scene. TaDaaaaa, picture of a 👻🤗

@chuckotto7021 6 месяцев назад

This surely your most spirited offering.

@thetowerstillstands 2 года назад

There were no _safe lights_ in that time. The Dark room would have been _just that._ So they _couldn't_ "observe" anything at that moment.

@stupidsminkle 2 года назад

"Party in the Dark Room" is great 🕺

@blayne2029 2 года назад

What a great video. Your stuff is first rate. Excellent visuals and wonderfully informative and entertaining dialog.

@reighserene 2 года назад

just when it seemed this could not get any better, there was a party in the darkroom! :;)

@HeathsHarleyQuinn Год назад

My dad, an award winning amateur photographer, did one of these of my mom - they're really awesome! And while your photos were awesome too, they don't carry the same ethereal look that the old photos do. I'm not sure if that's because they're new, or not, but the look is too harsh, clean lines, not soft and uncertain enough, honestly. I don't think you've figured out exactly Mummler's technique yet, or at least, haven't perfected his method.

@angimoora2109 2 года назад

I really enjoy your time and info

@AmyMrsR 2 года назад

LOVE! This was fun to watch and super informative as always :)

@ShallowApple22 2 года назад

Just came from the JFK video … finally I’ve found my niche 😊

@gregorybufkin890 2 года назад

Will you marry me, Ms. Doughty? Seriously, I am non-stalkingly in love with you and your "shows". Each one is better than the last one! Thank you for making my life a lot less boring. I live alone here in Mexico (you should come by on the Day of the Dead or do the Church of Holy Death, just ideas, you know), lots of material here, also the crosses placed around the city, streets, highways, buildings, where people died unexpectedly, usually in accidents, sometimes under "mysterious circumstances". Then there are the new laws where they have to dig up people after 10 years, "housing" problem, you covered that already in a show, but the Mexico solutions are, well, innovative. Anyway, all my support for your work! Also have an English speaking friend here who runs a chain of funeral homes, very modern they even offer grief therapy through the funeral home, probably not possible in U.S. because of possible legal liability--all these ideas have the price of just getting to meet you and thank you in person for your work!

@gackt33 2 года назад

Isn't that stand also used to keep the corpse sitting up when living family take photos with their deceased relative?

@gungagalunga7761 2 года назад

Awe Kaitlin... hard to dislike you. Morbid and beautiful! If we take a step back... and you mention this a couple of times in this show. If in todays society would we not offended by the tricks of CGI effects shown to us in modern films, or would we be amazed? Maybe the inference of the supernatural... not the ghost hunter jaded society we have become but religion is on a downslope. Compare this act of trick photography to Orson Welles performing the "end of the world" broadcast of HG Wells' "War of the Worlds". Isn't that testimony of how far SFX has come and how unimpressed we have come? A friend who knows how much I enjoy your show and the making movie magic (behind the scenes) I am gave me a disposable camera... Yes young viewers, cameras that require developing of film. The roll is preprinted with ghosts preplaced on the film before you take a photo of your subject. A gimmick when real film was used to recreate a seemingly real ghost wherever you shot the picture. Halloween party, trip to a scottish castle or a family picnic. It was silly fun but not nearly as original as Kaitlin's subjects. Being the first to create an effect is the brass ring for Hollywood. In this episode, it was globally earth shaking challenging peoples beliefs. Loved this episode and watched it several times. With all my tech savvy, would never be able to duplicate this effect as spooky as was done. Thank you Kaitlin!

@janewayofchaos3255 2 года назад

That closing song had me rolling 😂

@thegrumpyfatazz7612 2 года назад

I have to say you have made it possible for me to enjoy the expierience I have had

@karenlulay 2 года назад

This was a great video. I had never heard of this kind of photography before. Very interesting. Thanks.

@ronalddunn291 2 года назад

Awesome thanks Babetician!🥰🥂

@SavageGreywolf 2 года назад

I'd just like to note that "The Penumbra Foundation" sounds like an organization that investigates eldritch horrors from beyond the edge of spacetime, not a photography enthusiast's club in New York City.

@WorthlessDeadEnd 2 года назад

I thought it had something to do with solar eclipses.

@AccidentalNinja 2 года назад

Maybe it is & the photography is just a front...

@RedSpade37 2 года назад

@@AccidentalNinja The people at Netflix: "Write that down, write that down!"

@travcollier 2 года назад

Why not both? I'm pretty sure there's a lot of overlap there ;)

@Nessainthebuilding 2 года назад

@@RedSpade37 lmao they're probably referencing Doctor Who

@Jivolt 2 года назад

FUN FACT: Old Fashioned Ghost Grift was the name of Caitlin’s Siouxsie and the Banshees cover band in high school.

@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 2 года назад

ROTFLMAO! 🤣 Congratulations! 👏🙌👍You Just Won The Internet! 🏆

@Firecracker66 2 года назад

Wow that is cool ♥️!

@georgeedward1226 2 года назад

I saw them open for the GoGos in '82.

@keyaunna. 2 года назад

yesssss!!!

@Undomaranel 2 года назад

My bad, I thought they were Corpse Cabal... or was that their "undercover" grunge rock reunion?

@ManOfSdeel 2 года назад

This channel's content is like what I'd see on Discovery back when Discovery was really good.

@murtikrishna1615 7 месяцев назад

Caitlyn Moorhead는 19세기 정신 사진의 균열

@PrincessSixThirteen 2 года назад

The moral of the story: photo manipulation is as old as photography itself.

@Rugelacharugula 9 месяцев назад

Think of it as colonial photobombing.

@Gafafsg 3 месяца назад

Wrong century lol

@Eclipsepearl 2 года назад

Off topic but I became a fan of yours’ a few years’ back. I’m into your ideas on death. Good advice and message! Thanks to you, when my husband died suddenly at home one morning just over a year ago, my kids and I got to spend a moment with him, still warm and just appearing to be asleep. We were unafraid, sad, shocked but at peace. The kids were 16, 18 & 21 all home at the time After the emergency people left and before the rabbi and undertaker arrived, we had a few precious hours, me and my children to say a private goodbye. Ambulances don’t transport bodies here in France He was buried the next day in his home village with his parents, great grandparents and so on. Full traditional Jewish rites which you helped validate. It all went off without a hitch. Except when a part of my car started to fall off between the funeral hall and the cemetery. They don’t do limos here either. A few fellow mourners came to the rescue. Needless to say, they waited for us… I later spent a small fortune on the perfect headstone. Keep up your message because it truly helped. I started watching you out of curiosity and entertainment and your philosophy actually was put to good use when I least expected it. Merci from this Californian in France!

@dawnmichelle4403 2 года назад

My condolences to you and your family. ❤️

@nomdeplume2213 2 года назад

My mom passed 2 weeks ago and same. I got to give my grandparents peace of mind by explaining the cremation process because of what i learned in her books. I know it probably doesn't seem like it but in a few years you and your kids will look back on your car falling apart on yalls hardest day and laugh. My dad committed suicide 16 years ago and after his funeral we got home to our apartment complex. My brother just walked in to our OLD apartment, the apartment we hadnt lived in for years. We had moved into a different apartment in the same complex but his mind was so exhausted muscle memory kicked in and he just walked into some poor families apartment, no knock no nothing, dressed in a full black suit. My mom was sitting in the front seat of the car watching it all unfold and when he came out of the apartment i asked him if he told them "Hi, Im a Jehova Witness, we dont knock anymore, can i tell you about the Bible and she literally pissed herself laughing 🤣 she and i hadnt laughed that hard ever. We arent religious much less J witnesses i just thought he looked like one in his suit 😂 It was the hardest day in our lives up to that point but also the day we laughed the hardest... sometimes the things that go wrong become the best moments of your life. Its been so hard these past 2 weeks without my mom but i know shed be laughing her ass off everytime i call my brother and make sure he made it home to the right apartment since shes passed 🤣

@maryeckel9682 2 года назад

Sending love

@dawnmichelle4403 2 года назад

@@nomdeplume2213 you have my sympathies ❤️

@Natalie-101 2 года назад

I'm sorry for your loss, but I'm so happy for you and your family that you got to spend moments at peace, as well as got the full rites he deserved. Sending love❤

@reginamachamer821 2 года назад

Caitlyn is one of those people who could literally walk down the street in a full victorian gown complete with corset and fancy hat.. and no one would even think much of it lmao it just works somehow

@lazyhomebody1356 2 года назад

Exactly. We would only pause to admire

@gusmonster59 2 года назад

As someone has has walked down many streets in full, historically correct, Victorian gowns, I tell you you never get very far because EVERYONE thinks a lot about and stops you to ask a bizillion questions. :)

@jaelikesjackalopes 2 года назад

You might like Bernadette banner

@constancemiller3753 2 года назад

@@jaelikesjackalopes does anyone dislike Bernadette or her hamster?

@stephh1149 2 года назад

@@constancemiller3753 i hope not

@JennaGetsCreative 2 года назад

I just love the fact that in this century when we can do these things digitally there are still people figuring out how to do it the way the original artists did.

@morganseppy5180 2 года назад

those ppl shopping photos...

@getskared 2 года назад

It's truly sad how much we have lost to get to this point though... there are so many lost arts and skills that we will probably never figure out

@censusgary 2 года назад

Doing it by hand is so, so much more satisfying.

@tbwkn 2 года назад

I have epilepsy and am expecting any day to have the seizure that takes me out. I have to say that this channel has helped ease some of the fears I have had about death. Thank you Caitlin

@morganseppy5180 2 года назад

you have a rare 'gift' (some would call it a curse). you know what time you might have left and can appreciate it all the more. do what you love, tell those close to you how you feel, and try your best to make the most of it. i'm sorry that your life is so painful. :(

@amylarson3958 2 года назад

I am praying for you.

@rhov-anion 2 года назад

As a fellow epileptic, I totally get needing to accept one's mortality, but I hope you look into all the treatments you can before the "Big One" takes you. I was diagnosed with epilepsy in 1994, it got severe between 2007-2017, to the point where I don't really remember those years, although I know I did a lot of things thanks to pictures and blogs that I kept. I've dislocated my elbow twice, broke my wrist, once fell on top of a knife when I had a seizure while cooking dinner (it's a miracle I wasn't stabbed) plus other injuries during epileptic falls. In 2017, a friend whose wife used cannabis for cancer offered to let me try some Rick Simpson oil. I'd never tried hard drugs in my life (too scared they'd throw me into a seizure) but I knew there was scientific research into marijuana that looked promising. Honestly, I had nothing to lose, as I was already experiencing cognitive deterioration on top of all that memory loss. I'm happy to say, I've not had a single seizure since my first drop, and I now use leafs brewed into teas as well as CBD oil, since Rick Simpson oil can make you high (CBD cannot). Like all forms of seizure treatments, it doesn't work for everyone, but it was apparently what my brain needed to stop "rebooting." My little sister also has severe epilepsy, was hospitalized multiple times, and she got a VNS which prevents 99% of her seizures. Both of us still take our meds (which cause a world of bad side effects) but we both found that little extra treatment that helped us on the path to management.

@meredithaherntamilio4553 2 года назад

May our Creator lay his healing hands 🙌🤲 upon you and heal you ,I do believe in miracles and I'm in need of just 1 miracle for my service dog Smeagle, he mist likely has liver cancer our family is waiting for his appointment with the oncologist in May prayers work ,I pray 🙏 for our heavenly father lays his healing hands on him and completely heal his body , NY heart aches for you ,please hear me out ...I have my service dog and it helps my Anxiety and panic attacks and I have PTSD its bad ,I know dogs that are trained to sniff out a seziure and let you know when your about to have a sezure ,I'm sure your drs will write u a letter to your landlord is compassionate and let's u have a service dog I know the Cocker spaniels can be a great choice and golden retrever is great to ,I've had lots of dogs throughout my life ,look about that getting a service!

@howdyyall4335 2 года назад

I pray you're doing well. God bless 💓

@flowerfaerie8931 2 года назад

It has been six entire days since I first saw this video and “Party in the Darkroom” still has not left my head. Caitlin what have you done?

@UnholyTriforceDelenn 2 года назад

I just heard this song after seeing the video for the first time, and now I'm obsessed with the song! Has Caitlin invented "The Good Death" music? Or maybe "Music of the Deadly Arts"? A whole new world of death related music...

@BatyBug 2 года назад

@@UnholyTriforceDelenn I just watched this vid and have replayed the end like, 6 times for the song.

@jessied3696 2 года назад

Gonna party like it's 1861!

@GrahamMorrison 2 года назад

I would high key pay 99 cents (or however much iTunes is nowadays adjusted for inflation) for this single.

@TheCraftyNerdette 2 года назад

This song is what I didn't know I needed to complete my day.

@darthkitsu 2 года назад

As a former photography student...there is always a party in the darkroom.

@sophiew1967 2 года назад

Back in the 80' s as an art student in Liverpool UK..I.saw MANY things to on in the dark room..lol..from lesbian romps to obscene amounts drugs😂😂..great times indeed lol😈

@klisterklister2367 2 года назад

Please tell me you play party in the darkroom when you have a party in the darkroom

@confusedDruid 2 года назад

Especially when no one can see you dancing like a madman/woman/person all alone, wether you're good at it or not

@zippyyenavigator707 2 года назад

Please tell me “Party in the Darkroom” will be available on Spotify soon. That shit slaps.

@berthaschwarze6704 2 года назад

i am here for this comment. first thought what a weird commercial when i listened to the lyrics :D

@taylor3950 2 года назад

Mostly silly, a little bit menacing. Really hits the spot.

@mookinbabysealfurmittens 2 года назад

Agreed, though anything but Spotify. Not cos of the Joe thing; it's just the worst company when it comes to paying artists, created with & for the labels, not for musicians, for that very reason. _Some More News._ & _Barely Sociable_

@LadyGryffin 2 года назад

Exactly what I came here to ask!

@WouldntULikeToKnow. 2 года назад

@@mookinbabysealfurmittens I second this, but also partially for the Joe thing

@heckeon 2 года назад

"he did it with ghosts, your honor 😌✨" is what got me

@NWolfsson 2 года назад

Caitlin's one-liners are always on point. You could say... Dead on.

@barbarahouk1983 2 года назад

I liked that "dead on"

@davidhensley76 2 года назад

Unrelated: I knew a man who was almost 7 feet tall. He died in a house fire and was buried in a regular-sized coffin. I asked the funeral director how he was able to pull that off. The man's knees were propped up on pillows, nearly touching the lid.

@sophiew1967 2 года назад

WTF...lol.that image reminds me of what we'd refer to as a ' spatchcock chicken over here in the UK 😂😂😂😂So he basically had his legs bent to his chest in the coffin??lol

@davidhensley76 2 года назад

@@sophiew1967 Bent as high as needed to fit him into the coffin

@brittneyhawkins1887 2 года назад

Whew! That was actually a very tasteful way to do it. I live near a funeral home where they cut off the portions of the legs that couldn't fit in the casket.

@Jellybeansatdusk Год назад

@@sophiew1967 no, not curled up in the fetal position… Laying fully straight down with pillows under the knees, but legs still out and away from the body. Like when you put a pillow underneath your pelvis during s€x

@magnusbane420 Год назад

@@brittneyhawkins1887 B R U H. In Germany, all Morticians in Training have to partially assemble a coffin by themselves for one of the finals to be allowed to practice death care. Cutting off someones legs when there are xxl coffins does not make sense

@TachyonDriver 2 года назад

"This picture was taken by myself.. when there was no visible person present but myself" Technicaly, Mumler was correct - the girl in the chair was present at a previous sitting, so Mumler was alone :) . as always, an educationally interesting video, Caitlin, thank you.

@WaddenSeaSiren 2 года назад

My dad used to make pictures like this by using long exposure times on his old camera. It was great fun!

@estherstreet4582 2 года назад

There's a few ways to take "spooky" photos with just a camera, it's a fun little thing to do if you're not going to use it for deceptive purposes. My favourite is putting something small just in front of the camera so it looks like a big spooky shadow.

@dortesandal4303 2 года назад

👍😉

@maudyg_22 2 года назад

I used to do the same with my sister. Made for some great family photos 😅. I did it with double exposure in a badly lit room.

@janedoex1398 2 года назад

You can also take two negatives and put them over each other, then develope the picture. My coworker called them a "sandwich" , so you can for example create a face with the structure of a brick walll / leaves etc just by taking the two negatives and overlapping them. She did very god portraits and acts, even better in sepia or s/w with a Hasselblad (6×6mm) because the absence of colour brings more focus on the textures and body/ face.

@SniffyTugBoat 2 года назад

my grandma had a stereoscope!! I was like 7 when she showed it to me and I've never seen one in person since. I think she had a couple pictures, but the one that was most important was a picture of her family when she was a little girl. her older brother was going off to WWII and they had all gotten together to take a picture with him in uniform. she sat on his lap and looked like Shirley Temple, puffy dress and curls. it's truly an amazing piece of equipment and an experience to witness the photos.

@kinhahazevedoh 2 года назад

Did her brother survive?

@FriedEgg101 2 года назад

I've been a hospital night porter for 20 years, and I've never seen a ghost. I do see dead people though, it's my job to put them in the fridge. I've just discovered this channel, and I think it's quality.

@jessyg17 2 года назад

Mumler was just trendsetting all over the place. Not only did he take an early selfie before that was a thing, but he also captured what could be the world's first photo-bomb. Such talent👍

@NWolfsson 2 года назад

These TikToks taking a photo and using it as background in the same video got nothing on our late Victorian ghost paparazzis!

@Loweene_Ancalimon 2 года назад

selfies are as old as photography ! Of course photographers took pictures of themselves !

@miburoushi 2 года назад

Selfie had existed much earlier than Mumler. Check out Robert Cornelius self portrait taken in 1839, the same year Daguerreotype process was announced to public.

@mlebrooks 2 года назад

FYI the neck brace was invented by a photographer in Germany who photographed the Kaiser. They have an exhibit of his work in Kyllburg I hope it wasn't ruined by the flood

@mlebrooks 2 года назад

Joseph Quirin

@jewisley 2 года назад

Oh, my! Ich auch! Wo liegt Kyllburg? Ich wohnte in Mainz. Vor vielen Jahren. Ich vermisse Sie noch. Die Weintrauben. Gutenberg. Den Fluss. Rheinland Pfalz fuehlte sich wie Heim. Vor Kurzen lernte Ich, dass die Urgrosseltern aus der Gegend stammen.

@gozerthegozarian9500 2 года назад

To be fair, I for one would be inclined to believe the opposite of whatever testimony P.T. Barnum gave. Because, ya know, Barnum's gonna Barnum...

@QuacklikeaFish2243 2 года назад

fo sho!

@lazyhomebody1356 2 года назад

True. That's why he's one of my idols

@debbylou5729 2 года назад

And he didn't try to hide it. I think he was probably as amazed that people 'bought' it as we are

@katiehettinger7857 2 года назад

I love a little salt. 😁

@kimmy0189 2 года назад

“He got a little high… on his own supply” amazing informative video and great humor as always!!

@littlemiss_76 Год назад

Oh yeah those fumes. 😅

@davidroddick91 2 года назад

His statement: "This picture was taken by myself when there was no visible person present but myself" was true, so there was no deception, technically. Whether he attempted to mislead people with this statement seems to be a matter of debate.

@lorscarbonferrite6964 2 года назад

I can definitely imagine him writing a technically correct, but misleading statement just to fuck with what he viewed as just some hokey spiritualist, then rolling with it once he accidentally memed himself into a career. We'll probably never know if he intended to grift from the beginning or not, but his statement on it makes sense. Afterall, it's exactly the kind of thing that could happen now, and the people of the past weren't so different.

@TheB3e3 2 года назад

It's the sort of stilted, oddly specific statement you only hear nowadays from congresspeople, drug reps, or cigarette makers.

@froglingsreborns8729 2 года назад

I wonder how they explained why so many "ghosts" showed up to this building to photobomb random people. or was it like "ghosts are everywhere all the time you just can't see them"

@cclyon 2 года назад

Well they are. ;)

@princesseville6889 2 года назад

"Damn, all these ghosts just coming into the photo studio to hang out. Is this place haunted or what? "

@LauPulstar 2 года назад

im full of questions too, like how they explain that their ghost loved ones dont look like themselves, or who are they supposed to be, just a ramdom ghost that happened to pass by as they took the photo?

@sophiejones3554 2 года назад

the latter IS what most spiritualists believed, yes.

@caesarspeaks 2 года назад

I mean given the sheer amount of dead people of course there’s gonna be a lot of ghosts

@QuatroAtYale 2 года назад

Wonderful, as always. And then the music video, "Party in the Darkroom" was even more fantastic. No ghosts in attendance?

@TheMeloettaful 2 года назад

It was also very catchy and a total bop! Now I'm gonna be singing it all damn day tomorrow lol 👂👄😂!

@darkangel3492 2 года назад

My dad while serving in Vietnam has a badass photo of him lighting himself a cigarette. He had to move quick, but had something to do with the flash of the camera. It's my favorite, I thought it was so cool.

@helenl3193 2 года назад

Ok, so I NEED Party in the Darkroom to get it's own upload, it's a legit bop! Also, excellent work on the rest of the video, as always, but I needs to get the song on to my exercise playlist!

@WouldntULikeToKnow. 2 года назад

That's what I thought! Blast it in the gym and get weird looks lol

@dinadaly11 2 года назад

That song slaps.

@happytofu5 Год назад

dito! I bookmarked this video in my cheer-me-up-playlist for a rainy day

@ecouturehandmades5166 2 года назад

My mother experimented with her photography and created several spooky double exposures. Her forte was stereoscopic photographs. My first husband and I sat for her in 1977 and were given a stereoscope and that double, slightly different angle, photo card as well as her other stereo photos. I collected ViewMasters and the discs.

@Ergolamia 2 года назад

10:25 just the thought of someone from the 1800s saying 'ok boomer' made me laugh so hard i got lightheaded! i love this channel to death lol 💀🖤

@humanchildofgod3126 2 года назад

I am 61 years fabulous!! I want you to know that your programs are not just food for my mind but you also make me dance and laugh!! Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, PBS, etc., must be fu:king asleep! You need to be shown in schools!! Keep doing what you are doing!! I MARATHON WATCH YOU!! Tell the brutal TRUTH, and go deep into history!!! Scream: SHOW ME THE MONEY$$$$$$ , to those that will want more of you. You deserve it!!

@elizabethrodriguez6701 2 года назад

You make these videos NEVER boring. Your sense of humor is absolutely hilarious! Never get tired, plus many of them are very educating.

@kae5717 2 года назад

I made my own ghost photo back in high school photography class, with a handmade pinhole camera. It's a lot of fun! Doesn't take any physical editing of the photo paper, just be in the frame for part of the exposure time and then duck out of it really fast. It made the teacher laugh when I showed her.

@samleonard2557 2 года назад

I too had a ghost photo from High School photo class. I used an old shoe box. One of my favorite photos to take and develop.

@gnarthdarkanen7464 2 года назад

I used to do that sort of thing... Had an old school photochemical camera... cheap... BUT I ended up with a $5 tripod from a yard sale... AND with a large-ish broken tupperware tote, I fashioned some heavy rubber (electrical safety) gloves to the side, such that I could set the camera down after the first exposure, and use the gloves to open the back of it, and reset the shutter without advancing the film... Close it and put it back on the tripod... "So much for my ghost"... Shot 2 involved the "live person" subject... essentially accomplishing exactly what Mumler did... AND i could use different types of film cartridge... and different shutter speeds to get more or less opacity for the ghosts, fairies, pixies, phantasms, even a phoenix and dragon at one point... High speed shutters with low speed film give the most vague and transparent images... since there's so little exposure... Medium speed film would still give a fair deal of control over transparency/opacity, while you could dial down the shutter speed so long as the "live person" was "posed" specifically for a still image... The biggest issue I had to get over was using the wires and stands to support apparitions that weren't meant to be human... Humans can stand on their own... BUT shiny bits of metal can incidentally cast a great deal of light if you're not careful... AND per frame you wish to shoot, you get ONE attempt. Trying to reset only gets more superimposed images into the shot and blurs everything together into one big clusterf*** of dubious psychedelic information... or completely blots out the thing. AND yeah, I'm aware (now) that I was likely over-complicating the process for myself... BUT keep in mind, I bought my "cheap" photochemical camera and then the tripod when I was 11 or so... To still accomplish a fair variety of dubiously mystical photographs at that age by trial and error IS worth something... almost no matter how one accomplishes any of it. Carving out the broken holes to suit gluing two rubber gloves for a "mobile dark room" was the ONLY odd piece of equipment I actually had to make... ;o)

@barbarahouk1983 2 года назад

I'm impressed with your makeshift dkroom.

@gnarthdarkanen7464 2 года назад

@@barbarahouk1983 Thanks... I rather thought it somewhere between cute and cool, considering my age at the time... There's generally a "work-around" for just about anything. In any case, glad to share the entertainment/information value for whatever it's worth. ;o)

@rwolfheart6580 2 года назад

The logistics of this are the most baffling part to me! How did Mumler trick Black?! And how did he do such a good job of hiring ghosts that looked like specific people, without any of them spilling the beans?!

@ashmaybe9634 2 года назад

$$$

@rickelmonoggin 2 года назад

I guess that, whilst his clients requested specific people - their dear departed, presumably - they were happy with any old ghost. As to how tricked black: he had a pre-prepared plate?