The Spiricom





Above: The original Spiricom device

The Spiricom was originally designed and built by George Meek and Bill O'Neil in 1979, making it one of the earliest spirit communication devices ever created. The device was built by a construction of 13 tone generators hooked up through an AM radio apparatus. Many thought the device was a waste of time and would not work, many thought the two of them to be crazy for even trying to contact the dead through their new machine. But as the Spiricom experiments went on, voices began to come through, or so they said. There are several recordings of either Meek or O'Neil speaking to dead scientists they used to know and work with. The two of them figured because the dead they were speaking to were scientists they could operate the Spiricom easier than other spirits. In total they collect over 20 hours of audio using the Spiricom to communicate with the "dead" scientists from 1979 to 1982. But, when they were told to conduct the experiment for a board of scientists, they could not, and the device seemed to just fade away. Ever since then, paranormal researchers and ghost hunters have been trying to build their own Spiricoms and conduct the same experiments. But if the Spiricom did not work, where did the voices of the dead they recorded come from? Chalk it up to just another one of life's mysteries.

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