Optograms & Wife Sales (Patreon)

Optography is the process of viewing or retrieving an optogram, an image on the retina of the eye. A belief that the eye "recorded" the last image seen before death was widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a frequent plot device in fiction of the time, to the extent that police photographed the victims' eyes in several real-life murder investigations, in case the theory was true. The concept has been repeatedly debunked as a forensic method.Wife selling is the practice of exactly the terrifying thing that it sounds like. We also talked about that. We did NOT include an image for the episode header.