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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”
https://www.artstor.org/2016/10/20/bu...


“Alexander Gardner Saw Himself as an Artist, Crafting the Image of War in All Its Brutality”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smiths...

“Spirit Photography Captured Love, Loss and Longing”
https://theconversation.com/spirit-ph...

“When Cameras Took Pictures of Ghosts”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...

“A History of Photographing Ghosts”
https://hyperallergic.com/332625/with...