Edward Arthur Sanders Wyllie (28 January 1848India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786–1947 – 6 March 1911) was a British medium and spirit photographer.Anderson, Rodger. (2006). Psychics, Sensitives and Somnambules: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographies. McFarland & Company. p. 186.
Wyllie was born in Calcutta, British India, as a British subject, and moved to England as a small boy.1851 England Census He moved to California in 1886 to work as a photographer. He also worked as a medium and spirit photographer. His spirit photographs were exposed as frauds.Nickell, Joe. (2005). Camera Clues: A Handbook for Photographic Investigation. University Press of Kentucky. p. 151. Jolly, Martyn. (2006). Faces of the Living Dead: The Belief in Spirit Photography. Miegunyah Press. p. 51. Negatives of pre-made spirit images were found in his house and it was also discovered that Wyllie had used a method of "palming small spirit drawings executed in luminous paint and pressing them to the photographic plate" which he confessed to.Stein, Gordon. (1996). The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. p. 517.
He died in London in 1911.
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