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Feb 2021
42m 21s

Spiritual Developments

VOX MEDIA PODCAST NETWORK
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One Sunday afternoon, a man named William Mumler decided to take a self portrait. He said he was alone in the photography studio, but as the photograph developed he saw something very strange—the image of someone else, sitting beside him. Mumler’s “spirit photograph” was championed by advocates of Spiritualism, who saw it as evidence that the living could co ... Show More
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