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]}

References

^ 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

[1] India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786–1947

[2] Anderson, Rodger. (2006). Psychics, Sensitives and Somnambules: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographies. McFarland & Company. p. 186. ISBN 978-0786427703

[1851census-3] 1851 England Census

[4] Nickell, Joe. (2005). Camera Clues: A Handbook for Photographic Investigation. University Press of Kentucky. p. 151. ISBN 978-0813191249

[5] Jolly, Martyn. (2006). Faces of the Living Dead: The Belief in Spirit Photography. Miegunyah Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0712348997

[6] Stein, Gordon. (1996). The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. p. 517. ISBN 978-1573920216