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I may very well be wrong, there may very well be methods which I do not know and cannot imagine which would get…

Date of account: Published 1923
Source: The Case Against Spirit Photographs
Reference: The Case Against Spirit Photographs · selected passage 88
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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I may very well be wrong, there may very well be methods which I do not know and cannot imagine which would get round even this degree of control, but I am inclined to think that this procedure would be “fraud-proof.” Nothing less rigorous can be so, at any rate for a single-handed investigator, and even if several were present no confidence could be felt in the results unless (_a_) they were well versed in fraud, (_b_) they had planned and rehearsed everything in advance, (_c_) the medium were completely docile and willing to keep right away from the plates at the critical moments, and (_d_) the studio were known to be unprepared.

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