Tuesday, October 31, 2017

The Horsingdon Transmissions No.304: A Boreham Family Hallowe'en


A rare and unsettling photograph of James Boreham's wife Miriam, and children Edward and Judith  - dated October 31st 1892. Of note is the goatish visage of Edward, hinting at praeternatural parentage, as well as the face of Boreham's baby daughter, Judith - here already looking indistinct and vague, as if fading from view. In any case, this was the very last day Judith Boreham was seen in unveiled in public.

This above image depicts the only known, extant version of the photograph - one which appears To have been purposely cropped, with the intimation of additional figure to Miriam's left. This has led to speculation that there there may have been another Boreham child (despite there being no record of such) included in the original photograph: a sibling to Edward and Judith whose appearance was, perhaps, too disconcerting to be shown outside of the confines of this strange and closely-knit family.

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