NOT SPIRITS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 288, 9 November 1925, Page 3

NOT SPIRITS.

FAKED PHOTOGRAPHS. EXPERTS HOAXED. LONDON, Oct. 25. . An extraordinary instance of faking of spirit' photographs is revealed in the International Psychic Gazette, which published in September four photographs of ills Falconer, president of the Edinburgh Psychic Centre, surrounded by spirits, including a woman’s and children’s faces, whom relatives declared they readily recognised. The photographs were taken at seances by Mrs Falconer’s schoolboy sons whom the Gazette described as modest and unsophisticated, and incapable of faking the photographs. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said he believed it was one of the most remarkable spirit photographs he had ever seen. t The Gazette’s October issue, however, contains letters from Sir Arthur Conan Doylo and other spiritualists, declaring that the pictures are fakes. They point out that the “spirits” in them have been reproduced from various piceures, including the woman from Albert Moore’s “Blossoms,” and children from tho angels’ heads in Murillo’s “Holy Family.”