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The Science of Spirits
Scientists Talking to Ghosts
This is not your metaphysical chatter with ghosts of Christmas past, or an archetypal ritual that allows subconscious entities a voice in your conscious mind. This is the science of talking to ghosts.
Edison and Tesla competed for technology to speak to the departed. It’s even patented! Yes, you can make your own ghost phone. Today seems to be a ghost speaking day. In another essay, alien ghost came up. Ghosts are fun to talk about. It’s not just camp fire rituals to spook people. Many people over the history of mankind spoke on meeting diseased loved ones. Most of the reported outcomes seem benign. I have not heard of too many people dying from ghost encounters, but maybe that’s because those kind don’t get reported because the witnesses are dead?
The Why Files, below, has an interesting segment on the Ghost Phone. The receptivity is better than the I/phone. Why don’t they call it a Me/phone? I don’t want to talk to me, I want to talk others! :)
There are apps that supposedly let you talk to ghost. I have had only one spooky coincidental thing happen with that app, but that, was probably just true random chance. I get better receptivity when I…