Armistice Day Fraud

Entry in A Dictionary of Ghost Lore
On November 11, 1922 Armistice Day, which celebrated the end of the First World War, Mrs Ada Emma Deane, an English charwoman whose hobby was photography, claimed to have taken a photograph at the Cenotaph in London on which appeared the faces of a number of dead soldiers. The picture immediately created a sensation, and Mrs. Deane became famous overnight. On the following November 11, and again in the same day in 1924 she produced further photographs of the faces of soldiers. In the meantime she also set herself as a spirit photographer, seemingly able to take pictures of anyone who died--at a price, of course. Then  just after Armistice Day in 1924, a photographic agency in London spotted something rather strange about the faces at the Cenotaph; they were all identical to those of sportsmen that the agency had recently photographed for the national newspapers! This revelation brought a sudden end to Mrs. Deane's activitys and she hastily disappeared from public view.