As he grew older, he became convinced that many mediums and spiritualists claiming to communicate with the dead were actually con artists.
And Harry Price made it his mission to expose them.
The Spirit Photographer Who Fooled Thousands
One of Price’s most famous investigations involved a man named William Hope.
Hope claimed he could photograph the dead.
Grieving families paid money to sit for photographs. When the pictures were developed, mysterious ghostly figures supposedly appeared beside them.