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Okay…. when will I once again start dreaming of beautiful bikini clad women, running on a warm, sandy beach… with ocean waves crashing on the shore?  But Nooooo… I have to come up with these wild and weird Ghost Hunter Gadgets during my REM period.  Yes, another appeared to me last night, so I awoke, looked through the house, and built it before the dream was just a passing memory.

What is it…??? What is it for…??? Will it work…???

I guess I’ll call this one a REM Resonance EVP Box.  How’s that for a title?  Anyway… yet another one to take into the field for testing….

REM Resonance EVP Box

Some of my Ghost Hunters gadgets ( Back, Left: “Shadow detector”, Right: 8-in-one Paranormal device, Front, Left: REM Resonance EVP Box, Right: Vocal cords for the dead EVP Box)

Why did I build this…??? Because I had a dream about it last night.  Why did I dream about something like this…???  Because on the EVP ITC group I read they were discussing echo chamber systems.  I think that’s why…  What is it…??? It must be some kind of EVP Chamber Box System, because there is no raw audio device associated with it.  It’s not like those raw audio snippet Ghost Box devices I’ve been focusing on, lately.

But don’t ask me why the funny little setup in front of the amplified microphone…. it just looked that way in my dream.  How does it work…???  Well, since I haven’t tested it yet I can tell you the following.

Once the amplified microphone is turned on, you close the chamber… the sound comes in from the holes drilled on the one side, passes through the (baffling??? or tuning???) system that is between the entry holes and the microphone, mixes around in the chamber, and is captured by the microphone, amplifies and is sent to the ear phones and recording device that is connected into the Y-connector.

I guess I’ll be taking it into the field to see if it really is an EVP Box….

Here is a kinda, one-stop-shop of links to some of the Radio Shack Hack stuff on my website.  Below you’ll find links to modification instructional videos and general information on what you can do to the Radio Shack 12-469 and 12-470 (older version) to get Ghost Box functionality.

Similar Ghost Box functions as Frank’s Box, Joe’s Box, and Mini Box for just $24.95?
Pictorial on hacking the 12-469
http://ufogeek.com/?p=81 

Videos of the RS 12-469 and RS 12-470 radio modifications for “Ghost Box” type functions
Step-by-step modification instructions
http://ufogeek.com/?p=103

Attempting to modify newer RS 12-470 radio
http://ufogeek.com/?p=107

A video on my practical 12-469 usage in a ghost box type system
http://ufogeek.com/?p=113

Radio Shack Hack
http://ufogeek.com/?p=117

A portable Ghost Box for under $100
http://ufogeek.com/?p=119

Core antenna for 12-470 equals more raw audio?
http://ufogeek.com/?p=122

Mike’s Box 12.470 Prod 1, Prod 2, and Prod 3 now have access points for controlling the devices from outside the chamber and an object container
http://ufogeek.com/?p=130

Portable Ghost Box System video
http://ufogeek.com/?p=135

Hacked 12-470, “..and the rest is history”
http://ufogeek.com/?p=141

Mike’s Ghost stuff
http://ufogeek.com/?p=173

RSH Dynamic Duo/mixer configuration
http://ufogeek.com/?p=182

USB camera added to Micro Box
http://ufogeek.com/?p=187

Paranormal Micro Box 8-in-one Device video
http://ufogeek.com/?p=189

For anyone interested in seeing a video which explains my Paranormal Micro Box 8-in-one Device (Mike’s Micro Box), I’ve posted a 2 part video on YouTube.
What it has… Proximity detector, ION detector, Temperature Sensor, Motion detector, USB camera, White Noice Generator, LED flashlight, warning strobe.

Watch Part 1 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z4If6m4zRY
Watch Part 2 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz97GsiXdog

I’ve added another device to my Micro Box, a USB camera.  Through the computer it can take still photos or streaming video; and either save the files to the hard drive or upload them to a website. You can even configure it to capture video or stills when there is motion within the certain area you are monitoring. Check it out…

Below is a picture of the different devices I will be talking about and playing on my Ghost to Ghost PM program.

Show notes: Ghost Box demo - My scheduled guests can not make it, so instead I will be talking about the new methods used to make communication attempts with entities & spirits. Frank’s Box is no longer the most widely used Ghost Box. I’ll play each of the different RSH Ghost Box System configurations I have put together in recent weeks. Hear some for the first time here on Ghost to Ghost PM. Note: This WILL NOT be a Ghost Box session, only a demo of how they sound. No session questions will be asked.

Hear it LIVE 7pm Mountain time at http://www.ghosttoghostpm.com/ or listen to the archive anytime after the show airs.

Today I picked up a brand-spanking new mixer for $8, a microphone for $2… and with a few wires, speakers, and the RSH Dynamic Duo I put together another configuration of a Radio Shack Hack Ghost Box System.  The Y-connector connects the output of the mixer with the speakers, which can also be fed into a recorder with the extra jack available. The hacked 12-470, hacked 12-469, and the microphone are fed into the mixer.  The 12-470 is sweeping the AM band (raw audio) and the 12-469 is sweeping the FM band (raw audio). The microphone provides audible session questions so an audience can hear those and the output of the two sweeping radios through the speakers.

RSH Dynamic Duo/mixer configuration (above)

RSH Dynamic Duo configuration next to original Spiricomp (3) 12-469 configuration (below)

I modified my webcam to make it an IR (Infrared) night camera capable of now seeing things in the dark using an IR sourse a a flashlight. IR can not be detected by the human eye so someone or something would think they are hidden, bit in reality they are lit up by the IR source and captured with the modified webcam.

Video telling about it and showing it working: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiTCged_xOg

Here’s how I did mine which is a Logitech brand.  Other cameras may be different, so do this at your own risk!

Ths light source is my TV remote control.

I use it as an IR flashlight to light up my face.  Just think if you had more IR LEDs, how bright a source you could have, and no human eye could see it!

Here is a picture of my “Ghost Stuff”.  Each one of these I have either designed and built, or hacked and assembled.  Check em out…

Today I designed, breadboarded, tested, and built… then added a Temperature Sensor System to my Micro Box.  There are now dual temperature sensors on top, an adjustment control on the side, and a Temp Sensor LED on the front.  You adjust/set the sensor to the current room temperature by turning the control knob, allowing the LED to flash at a known speed.  When the sensors detect a change in temperature, the Red LED flashes… faster for an increase in temperature and slower for a decrease in temperature.  Check it out…

Okay… today I added a Ion Detection System to my Micro Box.  It basically looks for ions with an electrostatic charge, which then causes a meter movement along with a flickering LED. Check it out…

Okay… today I added an area motion detection sensor to my “Micro Box”. It is starting to become a Paranormal Pandora’s Box.  Now it has… 1) Proximity/area electric potential change detection (adjustable sensitivity) with Green LED normal, Red LED detection and audible warning tone; 2) Area motion detection with Red LED active mode and audible warning detection; 3) White noise generator/recorder with flashing Red LED for playback and steady for record; 4) Bright White LED flashlight. And I’m not done yet! Check it out…

Well… after much probing, proding, and soldering… I have hacked
another AM/FM to do the ole’ raw audio band sweep routine. This was
one of those “Made in China” AM/FM/Cassette combos.
Nothing like the clarity and smooth sweep operation of the Radio Shack
Hack models 12-470 (older version) & 12-469 (clicking model)… but it
provides those snippets and fragments some enjoy so much.

Hacked AM/FM/Cassette combo (above)

Two vintage AM radios along with Radio Shack Hack versions of 12-470 & 12-469 (below)

Okay… now I’ve added a white noise generator/recorder and an LED flashlight to my first “Energy Change Detection” System. I think next will be the raw audio generation component for this “Micro Box”. Check it out…

I’ve put together another paranormal detector, similar to the other one seen in the previous post.  With this one, a more portable unit, I plan to incorporate a number of sensors used at the detector input.  One will detect changes in light, one will detect changes in temperature, and one will detect changes in the electrical field surrounding the area where the detector is placed.  Stay tuned…

 What’s next… a cigar (ghost) box…???

Okay… if you listened to my last internet radio show and my guest appearance on Lights Out! radio, you heard me talk about those shadow ghost things that were hanging around me for two days after I worked on those Radio Shack Hack systems.  They showed up a few days after my first prototype was complete.  Well, I don’t think they are bad shadow ghosts or anything, but I sure would like to know if they are around.. even before I see the shadows moving about the room.

So… what’s a guy to do?  This guy threw together a prototype of a “Shadow Ghost Detector”, using a old circuit board I had… with just the right components attached.  I added a few more electronic items, made it more sensitive with an adjustable POT and figured out a good sensor to connect to the input; one that would be able to sense a change in the field surrounding an area of coverage.  I will probably experiment with some different sensors that I can connect to the input, too.  Hey.. this might just turn out to be a multi-purpose paranormal detector.

So far my testing is going good.  It has sensed some changes  when shadows are present, but does not react when I pass by (which is a good thing since it’s those shadow guys it is watching for)… I’ll continue to test and see what I can catch… and as I try the different type input sensors I’ll see what other uses it might just satisfy.  I think I might have enough room in the box to even fit a white noise generator.   Stay tuned…

A few extra switches for expansion.

Upper green LED flashes when it is detecting.  Lower red LED flashes letting others know it is powered up.

Upper red LED flashes and audiable alarm sounds after detection is made.

This was posted on our Box Researcher forum today… I plan to honor it and no longer listen to their show.

Hello everyone,

I know most of you are familiar with the paranormal radio show pulse
radio that airs here on the internet from 4 to 7 on friday nights.

I had become good friends with the people at pulse radio after steve
and I appearing as guests on the show to discuss boxes and research.

After the appearence steve and I had offered to send the owner of the
show a joe’s box to experiment with in the uk we believed it would
benifit box research to have some new researchers on a different
continent.

Anyway to make a long story short I got to know the owner of the show
quite well and he had made me believe that he believed in our
research and was interested in becoming a part of it. As there where
no joe’s boxes available at the time I had agreed to send them 2 RS
470’s out of good faith. The only stipulation I had was that they not
do on air box sessions until they became familiar with the equipment
and procedure of box research. they agreed and the 2 boxes where
shipped. they recieved the boxes on a wednesday and on the following
friday they where doing box sessions on the air during their radio
show and to add insult to injury they were asking for mine and
steve’s guides mike and lisa to come through to them with messages.

They set out on these sessions with a sceptical attitude and when
they were unable to discern any responses from the box for lack of
experience and the desire to boost entertainment value for the show.
they began to discuss the box in a derogitory light.

Shame on me for having trust in someone that I thought was a friend
and extending a helping hand.

the request I have for my fellow box researchers on this group is to
boycot the pulse radio show if you are a listener and to urge any of
your colleuges that may listen to do the same.

I know this forum is for research only and I kind of bent my own rule
but in a way this does concern research because we have enough
trouble trying to quell the naysayers without having the box and
research made a mockery of. To whom ever was listening friday it set
our credibility back severely.

I am not trying to tell anyone what to do but if you agree with this
post then please honor my request.

Also please no responses to this post I do not want to start an
ongoing discussion about this.

thank you for paying attention

This evening I will be the guest on the Lights Out! radio program hosted by Peter Franz and Alexis Camarda from Long Island Society for Paranormal Research. Peter Franz is also a co-host on TAPS Famly Radio.  Last week Rosemary Ellen Guiley was their guest. You can hear her interview on the archived show at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Lightsoutradio/

You can hear my interview on tonight’s LIVE Lights Out! show at 8pm Eastern time at:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Lightsoutradio/2007/12/18/Franks-Box

If (internet name) “Sum Duck” didn’t post his Radio Shack Hack 12-469 hack I would have never become curious about the 12-470, and figured out that hack. I remember asking the EVP-ITC Yahoo Group, since the Radio Shack 12-470 looked similar, could it be hacked too? Sum came back and said, “$39.95 and you can find out, Mike”. So I went and paid the $39.95, opened it up… and the rest is history…

WARNING - Use of this “Hacked” device could
cause contact with the “unknown”…

In my business, we call it modified COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf)… and we give it a new part number in most cases.  So, why not do it to the modified Radio Shack 12-469 and 12-470.  Seems only fitting!

I’ve added a new label to each Radio Shack Hack Ghost Box functional unit.  Check it out…

This evening, on my internet radio show Ghost To Ghost PM, I’ll be talking about Ghost Box Mania.  And I’ll be sharing some audio files from my Ghost Box designs, the Spiricomp 12.469 and the Mike’s Box 12.470 portable Ghost Box System.  Make sure to listen to the show at:  http://www.ghosttoghostpm.com/  7pm Mountian time (9pm Eastern, 8pm Central, 6pm Pacific)

Spiricomp 12.469 (My original design)

Mike’s Box 12.470 Portable Ghost Box System (My original design)

I have produced another video, this one of my completed portable Ghost Box System (Mike’s Box 12.470)
This video, in three parts on YouTube walks you through how the chamber system works, while describing the components and going through the description of how to control the devices with the chamber closed.

Video - Portable Ghost Box System Part 1 of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUOkWGrz94s

Video - Portable Ghost Box System Part 2 of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xirOLjEf1bQ

Video - Portable Ghost Box System Part 3 of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs7ep7-G7Aw

Only with my prototype is there a need to open the box/chamber after each session. I redesigned after that. The three production units (Prod 1, Prod 2, Prod 3) I built each have three access holes, which are rubber grommeted. These allow you to leave the chamber closed, and still allow you to start and stop the noise generator, sweep the radio, and turn the radio (raw audio) on or off. You only open the chamber once, to remove the cable and turn on the microphone, then you can keep it closed and control the other devices with a small push pole the remainder of the time. You only need to open the chamber again when you are done with all your sessions.

I’ve also added an object container inside the chamber.  They say objects retain memory in some cases, like film or recording tape.  If that is the case you can place an object inside the container; an object which was once owned by a person/spirit you are trying to contact.  The memory, if within the object, could mix with the raw audio, white noise, and ambient noise within the sound chamber to be captured by the amplified microphone, which is fed to the recorder and the earphones or speaker.  The container can be removed from the chamber if desired, since it is velcro-ed onto the case, as are the other devices.

Okay… I put together another couple of sound chamber type Ghost Box systems today.  I now have Mike’s Box 12.470 Proto 1, Mike’s Box 12.470 Prod 1, and Mike’s Box 12.470 Prod 2.  The Prod 1 and Prod 2 incorporate everything except the digital or analog recorder, which you must supply.  Each cost about $75 to build and each of the components is affixed to the case/chamber with velcro just like my prototype unit.

The wire FM antenna you get with the Radio Shack 12-470 digital radio is okay… but it hangs and swings too much for my liking, plus I wanted something that might just add that little bit of extra punch in the receive mode.  So… what I did was, I took and old AM radio ferrite core antenna and wrapped the FM wire antenna around it.  Then I wrapped a piece of black tape around that, affixed a couple of velcro tabs to it and to the back of the 12-470, and plugged it in.

Being in the basement I could tell right away that I was receiving a bunch more stations than without the antenna, and I even think I am now getting better reception than when I just used the antenna original configuration… hanging and swinging.  I even added one to the 12-470 in my, Mike’s Box 12.470 Proto 1.

See photos below.