Pepper's ghost
Pepper's Ghost is a way of creating
ghosts on the stage or in other life-action places. It is a
magical effect which can be explained by the cliche, "They do it with mirrors"-for it uses these materials.
An actor is offstage and the mirrors reproduce the person as if they were onstage. It was created in
Victorian times and is a
patented technique. Although it was created by John Henry Pepper a similar technique was used by Mr Dirck in the
1860s.