Autopsie des fantômes

In an unprecedented investigation into the lands of spiritism, the author leads us from the tomb of Allan Kardec to the cult of the souls of Purgatory. From Rome to Paris, through Vietnam and Scotland, he questions the archives and followers of those who refuse to see death as an inevitable end. Why do the ghosts, ghosts or revenants continue to be passionate? How did science attempt to record the sound of the dead, to photograph ghosts or thoughts? What role did the mediums play in this communication of the overseas tomb, between sincerity and fraud? How did the supernatural, who initially challenged science, become himself, during the nineteenth century, a real object of study? And especially, to whom do the revenants and their manifestations benefit? This story of the supernatural is an invitation to travel in the other world, to meet those who believe in ghosts, those who refute their existence, and those who seek the truth.