You can purchase rigid, transparent plastic or acryllic sheeting from your local home

center, lumber yard, or hardware store. The cheapest and thinnest rigid plastic sheeting works the best because thicker plastic will produce image doubling, which will make the head blurry.

A new-age digital twist on and age old idea.

Read the HISTORY behind “Pepper’s Ghost.”

If the TV is propped up, make sure it is on

something sturdy. Here, it’s resting in a

cooler under a garage window.

We’ve added a tree in the background.

Set up some sort of props, and diorama

scene for the head to “float over.”

Later that night...

Here’s a view outside the garage window.

We also placed a red light on the tree.

You can see the head floating in front

of the dead tree branches.

Close-up of night image.

Here’s the same effect

with a much more elaborate

scene set-up in the background.

Your imagination is the only limit!

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