Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-29
PHOTOGRAPHS OF GHOSTS.
Remarkable Result of FIashliaht Pic.
lures of Man and Wlfo.

lures OF Man and WIfo.
Have you ever seen the photo.
graph Of Il ghost?" was the odd uues
ton prop0unded by guest at the
Aragon to his companions ut dinner.
Those to whom the question was
addressed replied that they had not
only never seen the photograph of
ghosts nor a ghost, and that they have
never so much as heard Of the slhp-
shot man getting in his work on the
spirit world.
We'll, I'm not in any sense of the
word Il Spiritualis&." continued the
man who had asked tho question but
firmly believe that have seen, in
fact. that my wife has at home, photo.
graphs Of surc-cnough spirits OF the
dead. am sorry can't show you
the pictures themselves. as they are,
to me at least, intensely interesting.
Several years ago we were In q
small town in Ohio for few months,
having gopc there SO that could
take charge Of job Of work in my
line for which my bid had hccn ac.
ccptcd. The job kept me there mos.
of the winter. and took my family
with me.
During my stay there we boarded
al the home of Il prominent business
man and found it very pleasant. His
father and mother. who were pretty
well advanced In years and pretty well
fixed financially, too, resided immcdi-
atcly across the street IT, was from
that we first learned the family were
| firm believers in Spiritualism In
fact. the old man regarded himself as
| endowed in Il rare degree with the
faculties of Il medium.
After our discovery of the fact that
they were Spiritualists they made
strenuous efforts to convert both my
wife and myself, but neither one OF us
| entertaining the slightest sympathy
with any sort Of superstition, they
made little Roadway i'll their efforts
at conversion. However. they fire.
| qucntly made the statement that they
would at some time produce such
overwhelming evidence in favor of
their faith that VIC would he Obliged
to acknowledge its sound basis in
| truth.
ION one occasion the father and son,
| the latter having camera and tho
, former promising to call up the spirit
agreed to take photographs of ghosts
We consented to he present at the
experiment, and my wife and both
| Sdt lUI hhSlilSHt PICTURES. l Hc PIC
lures were developed. and beside my
wife on the print from the plate was
n marvellous likeness of her sister
who had been dead about 10 years
and whom the Spirituali:ts had never
seen or even heard Of The picture ui
tho dead girl showed gray and rather
misty, but each feature was distinct
and the likeness WAS mmistakcnblo
Beside me in the other picture was
an excellent photograph Of my father
appearing exactly as he used to in
the last year OF his life. was simply
tlumiuundcd at the sight, for III this
case, too, the likeness was too perfect
to admit of any mistake, and OF my
father also the Spiritualists knew alb
solutcly nothing.
We have preserved the pictures
and they are regarded as great curios
in our family. | have never been able
To find anyone who would give any
| sort Of satisfactory explanation ol
the phenomenon. ami while it did not
in any sense convert me To the doe
irinc oi Spiritualism it has made me
Infinitely more respectful III my atli
+, tudc toward the faiths and opinions
of others. The whole world is Il mys
tcry.-Atlanta Constitution.