The Photographer of Lost Souls

In Victorian London, a man named Mr. Dorran offered “grief photography.” He claimed his camera could capture the moment a spirit left the body.

Families brought him their dead. He would snap a picture — and when developed, faint figures appeared behind the corpses, smiling.

But when Dorran photographed his dying wife, her spirit didn’t appear behind her — it appeared behind him.

The next morning, his studio was found empty. Only one photograph remained, hanging by a nail.

It showed him and his wife holding hands. Both were transparent.