Spirit Photography Was Actually Part of Movement!?

Spiritualism is a movement based on the principle that the living can be in touch with the dead. A connection is typically practiced when someone is on their deathbed, a modern spiritualist, James Crissman, has had somewhat recent evidence of the happenings of such in Central Appalachia. Both visual and auditory contact were made in these instances. The two most influential premodern spiritualists from the 1600s through early 1900s were Emanuel Swedenborg and Andrew Jackson Davis. Both were early believers and spreaders of the phenomenon. The rise of modern spiritualism was brought about in 1848 by two sisters, Catherine and Margaretta Fox created a system of tapping to communicate with spirits in their home, eventually developing the system so well as to find out the spirits' stories. The media made a big deal of the Foxes and Spiritualistic interest spread like wildfire. The Fox sisters went to New York and became famous as mediums for afew years as mediums. This inspired the use of seance as a further form of communication. This led to the development of many churches whose main objective was to contact spirits. The movement eventually spread worldwide. Spirit photography was one of the many things that made the movement convincing (not that it didn't really happen).

Source: http://www.deathreference.com/Sh-Sy/Spiritualism-Movement.html (Spiritualist Movement forum)

-Evan