The London Stereoscopic Company produced a comic series of photographs as a form of entertainment in the Victorian era. Here, we feature some of those images that delve into the world of the supernatural. In this image from 1864, six skeletons smoke around the dinner table.
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Ghostly photos from the Victorian era —
A girl dressed as a witch hangs in midair on a broomstick. The images were originally produced in stereo. Two similar images were taken and when viewed through a special viewer, called a stereoscope, they produced a three-dimensional image.
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Ghostly photos from the Victorian era —
A white-caped figure wearing a Halloween pumpkin mask takes two people by surprise in their kitchen. Stereo images and viewers were a major craze at the time, and the The London Stereoscopic Company was a major player.
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Ghostly photos from the Victorian era —
An apparition appears to two country folk in their kitchen.
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Ghostly photos from the Victorian era —
A spectral figure hovers over a sleeping baby in a crib.
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Ghostly photos from the Victorian era —
The ghost of a woman appears to a girl at prayer by her bedside.
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Ghostly photos from the Victorian era —
A frightened man prays on his knees before an apparition.
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Ghostly photos from the Victorian era —
A man clings to a tree in the face of an apparition in a forest.
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Ghostly photos from the Victorian era —
A woman gets a scare from a transparent apparition appearing in her kitchen on the stroke of 12.
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Ghostly photos from the Victorian era —
A ghostly figure visits a man reading in his sitting room.
