https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-spirit-photography 2026-07-21T15:06:22-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/Screenshot_2026-07-20_at_4.07.53_PM.png?v=1784671582 WTF History: Spirit Photography Victorian spirit photography cabinet cards with ghostly figures https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-mourning-jewelry 2026-07-21T15:06:25-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/IMG_9900_a0f43ab9-e8b7-4e22-b7e9-5748cc37b5e9.jpg?v=1784671585 WTF History: Mourning Jewelry Victorian mourning jewelry display of brooches and lockets https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-mummy-brown 2026-07-21T15:06:27-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/Image_24.jpg?v=1784671587 WTF History: Mummy Brown Antique tubes of Mummy Brown pigment https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-death-masks 2026-07-21T15:06:31-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/Image_25.jpg?v=1784671591 WTF History: Death Masks A marble death mask of a young woman https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-the-dancing-plague-of-1518 2026-07-21T15:06:30-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/Image_26.jpg?v=1784671590 WTF History: The Dancing Plague of 1518 A 1642 engraving of the dancing plague https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-leech-collectors 2026-07-21T15:06:34-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/Image_27.jpg?v=1784671594 WTF History: Leech Collectors An 1800s illustration of leech collectors wading in a pond https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-resurrection-men 2026-07-21T15:06:36-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/Image_28.jpg?v=1784671596 WTF History: Resurrection Men A 19th-century etching of resurrection men robbing a grave https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-the-great-stink-of-1858 2026-07-21T15:06:38-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/Image_29.jpg?v=1784671598 WTF History: The Great Stink of 1858 The Silent Highwayman, an 1858 cartoon of Death on the Thames https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-the-sin-eater 2026-08-02T20:20:17-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/images.jpg?v=1785727217 WTF History: The Sin-Eater Goya's painting of two old figures eating at a table, one skeletal and death-like https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-youre-invited 2026-08-06T19:07:37-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/Image_54_91edcca8-c1ee-4aae-b56b-e5b837910450.jpg?v=1786068457 WTF History: You're Invited Museum display case of Victorian funeral and memorial cards, mourning stationery, and floral-arrangement photographs https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-buried-alive 2026-08-17T10:13:48-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/Image_0f31053e-729b-4e7d-88e3-56c634f3d8a3.jpg?v=1786985723 WTF History: Buried Alive J. 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Krichbaum's 1882 patent drawing for a Device for Indicating Life in Buried Persons https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-bone-houses 2026-09-02T16:06:13-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/Image_31.jpg?v=1788390373 WTF History: Bone Houses The Sedlec Ossuary — bone garlands and a chandelier made of human bones https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-beauty-is-pain-sometimes-arsenic 2026-09-02T16:07:22-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/Image_6.jpg?v=1788390442 WTF History: Beauty Is Pain, Sometimes Arsenic A vintage advertisement for Dr. Rose's Arsenic Complexion Wafers https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-the-secret-language-of-fans 2026-09-02T16:07:51-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/Image_8.jpg?v=1788390471 WTF History: The Secret Language of Fans A sepia photograph of an Edwardian woman in a large hat holding a lace fan https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-they-put-a-dead-pope-on-trial 2026-09-11T16:22:47-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/Image_9.jpg?v=1789161950 WTF History: They Put a Dead Pope on Trial A 19th-century engraving titled Jugement du cadavre de Formose, showing the exhumed Pope Formosus seated on trial before a church council https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-the-spirit-cabinet 2026-09-28T15:17:26-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/Picture1.jpg?v=1790633846 WTF History: The Spirit Cabinet An 1860s photograph of the Davenport Brothers and their assistants beside the wooden spirit cabinet https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-spirit-slate-writing 2026-09-28T15:18:44-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/Picture2.jpg?v=1790633924 WTF History: Spirit Slate Writing A vintage illustration of two men seated at a seance table, hands joined over a slate https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-ghosts-playing-musical-instruments 2026-09-28T15:19:09-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/Picture3.jpg?v=1790633949 WTF History: Ghosts Playing Musical Instruments A 19th-century illustration of a seance experiment, an instrument sealed in a wire cage beneath a table https://seanceperfumes.com/blogs/wtf-history/wtf-history-the-woman-who-let-ghosts-do-the-painting 2026-10-05T09:00:01-07:00 weekly https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/0781/8329/articles/wtf-houghton-spirit-drawing.jpg?v=1790640603 WTF History: The Woman Who Let Ghosts Do the Painting A Georgiana Houghton spirit drawing, 1866