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The 5 First Disturbing Photos Science Couldn't Explain

It looked like smoke—except it wasn’t. It curled over the bed in three luminous wisps, faint but undeniable, suspended above the body of a woman named Nadine Baraduc who had just taken her final breath. Her husband, Hippolyte, a French physician and parapsychologist, waited in the shadows for this moment with a camera already in place. When it came, he pressed the shutter, and what he claimed to capture that night in 1907 would horrify the skeptics and haunt the faithful: the photographic evidence of a human soul escaping the body. Baraduc wasn’t a charlatan. Or at least, he didn’t think he was. A respected doctor at Paris’s Salpêtrière Hospital, he’d spent years attempting to photograph what no lens had ever seen: thought, emotion, and spirit—what he called the âme humaine. While the 19th century was bursting with spirit mediums and double exposures, Baraduc’s approach was clinical, scientific. He believed the soul radiated a vital fluid—a kind of human radioactivity—that could be captured by the photographic plate itself. No camera, no light source, just the body, the darkness, and the plate. What emerged were abstract swirls, streaks, and misty clouds. Baraduc insisted these were not flaws or accidents—but visible traces of invisible forces. However, it was Nadine who would become his most terrifying subject...