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It’s widely regarded amongst the paranormal community that ghosts can do many things, such as transport themselves from place to place, create changes in temperature, and move objects, but can they also communicate through radio signals?

One of the most common forms of ghost hunting equipment is called a Spirit Box or Ghost Box, a small piece of equipment that scans the radio waves in search for spirits attempting to communicate through noises or other sounds, amongst the radio stations being broadcast.

Advocates of Radio Voice Phenomenon (RVP) claim they are able to use radio equipment in order to communicate with ghosts and spirits, but how does this really work?

In order to hear Radio Voice Phenomenon, you’ll need to have access to a Spirit Box and be in a potentially haunted space. Enthusiasts of the tool believe it is an effective way to communicate with spirits, while others believe it’s in our nature as humans to associate human characteristics to everything around us, including a potentially muffled noise on the radio.

How do Spirit Boxes work?

Spirit Boxes (also known as Ghost Boxes) scan through the normal frequency ranges used by broadcasters to transmit radio programs on various stations or frequencies, from both the AM (535 to 1064 KHz) or FM (88 to 108 MHz) radio spectrum. As the device sweeps through the vast spectrum, it’s common to hear static, white noise, and also radio broadcasts mixed in when you get to the corresponding frequency of that station.

Depending on the type of device you have access to, there might be various buttons or knobs to turn which enable you to change the settings in order to tweak the results, focusing on a particular frequency where you might pick up something potentially paranormal. Some even let you record the audio, allowing you to access it later and play it in different ways to perhaps spot something you were unaware of before, such as by playing it backwards or slowed down.

 

It’s because of this that many paranormal investigators choose to always have a Spirit Box to hand, always ready for if they’re on a paranormal investigation and want to try their luck at communicating with spirits.

The History of Spirit Boxes.

In 1969, a middle-aged Latvian doctor turned up in Gerrards Cross with a large collection of tape recordings. Recordings, he claimed, of conversations he had with the then deceased Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and many more 20th Century statesmen. And this wasn’t just a few recordings, by that point Konstantin Raudive had 72,000 recordings containing these voices.

His technique differed slightly from the technique of many paranormal investigators today. Rather than asking questions and seeing what answer you got, he simply asked a question and left the tape running, recording silence.

Gerrards Cross is the name of the home of publisher Colin Smythe. Raudive was hoping that by revealing his findings to Smythe, he would publish a book on them. In order to convince the head of the publishing house that this was a worthy book topic and not just a hoax, the pair held a series of electronic seances in Gerrards Cross, using the same set up Raudive had used in the past with apparent great success.

The seances went well, and luckily enough the late pianist Artur Schnabel spoke on the line to the satisfaction of Lady Mayer (who was present and had known Schnabel). The pair had succeeded with getting the book (called Breakthrough) published, and EVP and RVP were on the paranormal investigation scene.

The process of capturing the words from these RVP’s changed slightly over the years as different investigators came into play. Nowadays the most common way is to use a Spirit Box or a Ghost Box to scan through the radio frequencies, recording the findings so that the investigator can listen back to them after the investigation and carefully examine their findings.

There is no complete understanding of how RVP works, but there are many different theories and techniques used by paranormal investigators, which rings true for many different aspects of the paranormal, but there are two processes that most investigators or enthusiasts use to generate speech through a device:

1. Transformative – Ghosts and spirits manipulate radio transmission to form their own words or phrases

2. Opportunistic – Ghosts and spirits affect the device in order to force it to select existing sounds to form words and phrases.

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