Society for the Study of Supernormal Pictures

The Society for the Study of Supernormal Pictures (SSSP) was a short-lived psychical organization that formed in 1918 to investigate claims of spirit photography.

[4] Members of the SSSP such as Arthur Conan Doyle and honorary secretary Fred Barlow stated that the photographs of the Cottingley Fairies were genuine.

[6] In May, 1920 the organization reported that they had obtained evidence for paranormally produced photographs under test conditions.

In 1933 he co-authored a paper in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research that cast doubt on the subject and demonstrated fraudulent methods that William Hope and other photographers had utilized.

[7] Barlow's collection of spirit photographs was given to Eric Dingwall who annotated them for the British Library.