Malegria

Thoughtgraphy, also projection thermography, psychokinetic photography, psychic photography, nengraphy, nensha, nensha (yap. 念写), is the supposed ability to "burn" images on various surfaces with the power of thought, such as photographic film.

In the English lexicon, the term thoughtography has existed since 1913. The term imposed Tomochichi Fukurai.

Later term projected thermography (projection thermography) - A neologism derived from the 2002 American film The Bell, a remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film of the same name.

Thoughtography appeared at the end of the XIX century under the influence of spiritualistic photography. But unlike the latter, it has no connection with spiritualism.

One of the first books to mention "psychic photography" was Arthur Brunel Chatwood's The New Photography (1896). In his book, Chatwood described experiments in which"images of objects on the retina of the human eye can so affect it that a photograph can be obtained by looking at a sensitive plate." The book was criticized in a review published in the journal "Nature".

The parapsychologist Hiward Carrington wrote in his book "Modern Psychological Phenomena" (1919) that after studying many psychic photographs are created fraudulently through substitution and manipulation of photographic plates, double printing, double exposure and chemical screens. But Carrington also said that he believes some of the photos are authentic.

Skeptics and professional photographers consider psychic photos to be fakes or the result of camera or film flaws, exposure, film processing errors, glare, flash reflection, or chemical reactions