Why Ghost Boxes Don't Work

If you browse the internet, you'll find the newest "trend" in ghost hunting is these "Ghost Boxes" that are supposed to create the ideal conditions for ghosts to talk back to you via EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon).

I haven't tried it myself but have seen how its done so I don't claim to be an expert on if these boxes work or don't work. That's not what this post is about. Some people are making a pretty penny off of pitching and selling them to newbie and wannabe ghost hunters who are new to the field. In fact, some people do have success getting them to work and capture EVPs. While the idea is pretty novel, there's just one problem with the device...

The Credibility of what you capture.

Because ghost boxes use a TV/AM/FM radio sweeper and a white noise machine to generate the necessary "noise" needed to make a EVP (theory), it undermines the genuine value of the EVP from being paranormal to being artificial (or "man made").

Now any skeptic or non-believer would have a field day with this, saying that those are just bounced signals from the enclosed TV/AM/FM sweeper. No matter how cool, unique or crystal clear the sound... it now considered Artificial... NOT paranormal.

You'll be hard pressed to prove that it's not. It's already difficult to prove the EVPs do exist outside of man-made influences. This will not help your case. That's like saying "I'm going to use Photoshop to edit or enhance my genuine "ghost" pictures. With how easy it is to make fake "ghost photos", your credibility just took another hit, even if you are credible.

The reason for this is that it is too easy to make fake ghost pictures, fake EVP's, fake paranormal activity, etc. that you can't trust what you see or hear any more. That doesn't mean that true paranormal activity, EVP & genuine ghost pictures exist, that just means its harder now to distinguish what is real (genuine) and what is fake.

That's why we at GERC go out of our way to eliminate any ammo that skeptics could use against us in our research. We already have a tough battle of standing out, being trusted and respected for the genuine evidence we do collect and take the necessary precautions needed to answer ALL questions a skeptic would ask.

We use Critical Analysis every step of the way because if we don't, our credibility, our reputation and years of our hard work would be damaged severely. Then, no matter what paranormal evidence or "proof" we gather, it would be dismissed because we haven't taken the steps necessary to gain and hold the trust and confidence of our peers.

Save your money and DON'T purchase any ghost boxes unless you don't care what people think. If that's the case, have fun with your experiment... for some it works beautifully. We know of a mother who talks to her son through their "ghost box".

Just know what hill your facing if you do indeed capture a EVP with it and try to pass it off as paranormal. There are people who thrive off of debunking the debunkers.

As someone once said...
"Knowing is half the battle"

Steven Wolff
Founder, GERC & STGHA

Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP 101)

Electronic Voice Phenomenon also known as EVP is not something new that just happened in the last 10 years or so. It's been around for a long time and only recently in the last few years has it had the spot light on it. There is a lot of controversy as to what exactly is an EVP.

WHAT PEOPLE THINK

Some people believe that EVPs are bouncing radio, Tv or cell phone signals that are captured on modern digital electronics or tape recorders. While we are constantly bombarded with radio, Tv and cell phone signals, those frequencies are not picked up by most recorders because of the frequency range they are in. This can be proven by taken any digital recorder, go to a quiet room, press record and then after a few minutes go back and listen to it. You'll find nothing but silence. So much for bouncing signals.

Another example that rules out the "bouncing signals" theory is that most EVPs that I've heard and/or captured myself are usually interactive. Meaning you ask a question, you get an answer (or interaction or response).

An example would be:

Asker: What is your name? And on your recorder you hear a female name
EVP: "Rachel"

Your EVP sample sounds like a womans voice which supports your EVP and the name is also a womans name. EVPs also capture the emotion of the entity that can be heard through their tone.

An example would be:
Asker: How do you feel?
EVP: "I'm sadddd".

One on a recent follow up investigation where we captured the voice of a woman, we talked openly to the entity in hopes of hearing her again. To our surprise we captured her voice AGAIN and she completed a sentence I started. I said talking to someone else "It would be very cool to turn around and play this" and she interjected "... And hear me." Which was very cool because it shows that 1.) the entity who made the EVP is listening and 2.) the entity is also interactive.

I said "entity" because the debate as to if it's a "ghost" or the "easter bunny" or "santa" has yet to be proven. How can I say it's a ghost when there's no evidence that it is. The only evidence we have is a interactive voice that is not from anyone in the room with us. It equally could be argued that it's the voice of the easter bunny or santa just as equal as it could be a "ghost". EVP's don't prove that ghosts exist... but they are believed to be the voices of the dead. How do we know this? We recorded a voice of a woman who passed away last year and her whole family 100% identified the crystal clear EVP as being her.

Without ever meeting or knowing her, I heard a voice sample taken when she was alive and compared it to the EVP we captured. It sounds identical to the voice sample.

Steven Wolff
Founder, GERC & STGHA
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