This discovery in an 1820 photograph shocked the entire world.

When a photo restoration studio used artificial intelligence to clean up the photo, experts initially thought it was a mistake.  In the background, the face of an unknown woman appeared, floating in the shadows. It was far too obvious to be a simple smudge.

Even worse, when they compared it to the  original negative , they found that the  silhouette was not there .

How could a photograph from  1820  contain such detailed information?  It would be years before the first recognized photographs appeared.  The image seemed  to question history itself .

The investigation took an  even stranger turn  when local archives were searched.

A disappearance 200 years ago

During the search through the church records, a  disturbing coincidence  emerged. In  1819 , the house in the photo was the scene of a tragedy:  Maria, the eldest daughter of the family, had mysteriously disappeared.

À l’arrière-plan, le visage d’une femme inconnue apparaît, flottant dans l’ombre. C’était beaucoup trop évident pour être une simple tache.

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