Recently I was indulging in a favorite guilty pleasure: Documentaries and investigation-Shows about the Paranormal. If it involves anything from Bigfoot to UFOs i'm fascinated.
The particular show I caught the other day was discussing photographs that captured what was said to be ectoplasm. Ectoplasam being a smokey substance secreted from the various orifices of Mediums. Seances were very popular in the early 1900's. A Medium would be invited, and everyone would sit together in the dark, in the hopes of making contact. During some seances flash photographs would be taken..
The results are what you see above. Ectoplasmic Photography. As you can tell they arrange from unbelievable to disgusting. I have been very considerate and not posted some of the grosser ones that can be found online through Google.
Most of these photos were later proven to be hoaxes(duh!). The Medium found to be using smoke, dry ice, cotton, cheesecloth, and various other methods to achieve this effect when the flash bulb went off.
Long story short: I love these photos (The more fantastical, less-disgusting ones). The above photo on the right is amazing. There are multiple different ones featuring photos of people floating in the middle of "ectoplasm". Maybe i'm alone on this one, but I think they're really cool!
I would love to do a series of bizarre black and white drawings depicting this paranormal phenomena!
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