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Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:47 ]
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Pod wrote:


Humans spot patterns out of nothing.


Interesting theory, when you think of it. Do you think that people who have died, if they were able to manipulate digital files would use such a laborious set up to convey their messages, or would they (for example) more likely use some text-based medium which far more people are likely to use every day?

Author:  “Fun”Sally [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:56 ]
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JohnCoffey wrote:
At first I just shrugged it off, then one day she punched me in the stomach. That was about two weeks before I threw her out (literally and physically) however, she then claimed (because she still thought I was interested) that she could no longer contact "Monty" but instead was getting to people who were horrible and nasty.

Perhaps you were looking for words in the gibberish, probably not knowingly. Your ex wife had mentioned she could now only reach people who were horrible and nasty, and had very recently done something particularly horrible and nasty herself. Maybe this was your subconscious telling you something rather than people from the other side?

I’ve watched some things on YouTube where people use spirit boxes - seems similar to your ex’s technique. They had a little machine that switched through radio stations 8+ times per second, so in theory if any words came through it must be the spirits manipulating it. It only ever produced one syllable words “Mike”, “go”, “run”, and a lot of the time they were making massive leaps to get to those words basing them around things they already knew about the supposedly haunted places they were visiting.
I remain sceptical but intrigued.

Author:  Mr Dave [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:00 ]
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Mimi wrote:
Pod wrote:


Humans spot patterns out of nothing.


Interesting theory, when you think of it. Do you think that people who have died, if they were able to manipulate digital files would use such a laborious set up to convey their messages, or would they (for example) more likely use some text-based medium which far more people are likely to use every day?

It's a bit like mediums. It's somewhat laughable to think that if the dead could communicate, that's what they'd choose to communicate.

Author:  MaliA [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:01 ]
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Mr Dave wrote:
Mimi wrote:
Pod wrote:


Humans spot patterns out of nothing.


Interesting theory, when you think of it. Do you think that people who have died, if they were able to manipulate digital files would use such a laborious set up to convey their messages, or would they (for example) more likely use some text-based medium which far more people are likely to use every day?

It's a bit like mediums. It's somewhat laughable to think that if the dead could communicate, that's what they'd choose to communicate.


They all sound scouse, too.

Author:  myp [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:07 ]
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An interesting titbit of information that you may not have considered before: as a survival technique, humans are programmed to see patterns in things where there are none. This is why conspiracy theories are so popular; some people don't want to believe that the world can just be fucking shit for absolutely no reason at all except for the fact that humans are shit, and instead try to link unconnected events together to make some semblance of sense out of them.

Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:13 ]
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Mr Dave wrote:
Mimi wrote:
Pod wrote:


Humans spot patterns out of nothing.


Interesting theory, when you think of it. Do you think that people who have died, if they were able to manipulate digital files would use such a laborious set up to convey their messages, or would they (for example) more likely use some text-based medium which far more people are likely to use every day?

It's a bit like mediums. It's somewhat laughable to think that if the dead could communicate, that's what they'd choose to communicate.


I *guess* in that point someone could argue the case that though they might not be able to cause physical (or digital :P) changes in the world that some hocus pocus meant that they were able to communicate through thought/spirit, which might not be so comparible with digital manipulation.

But yes, that and any fortune telling props that mediums use are silly. Tarot cards would be an odd way for the universe to explain the way it has and will organise itself for you. You could argue that it’s just a framework for a medium to channel his/her sights via, but either the arrangement means something (in which case the universe would have to utilise them as a communication method, rather than just write your fate clearly in an email to you each morning) or it does not, in which case the cards should not be interpreted at all as the medium should channel what is being communicated to them without being influenced by the randomness of the card draw.

Author:  Cras [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:33 ]
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Mr Dave wrote:
Mimi wrote:
Pod wrote:


Humans spot patterns out of nothing.


Interesting theory, when you think of it. Do you think that people who have died, if they were able to manipulate digital files would use such a laborious set up to convey their messages, or would they (for example) more likely use some text-based medium which far more people are likely to use every day?

It's a bit like mediums. It's somewhat laughable to think that if the dead could communicate, that's what they'd choose to communicate.


Right?

It'd be:
"OooOooOodeletemybrowserhistoryOooOoOo"

Author:  Zardoz [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:37 ]
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:DD

Author:  Zardoz [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:39 ]
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One need only look at the pioneering work of Scooby Doo to realise this is all bunkum.

Author:  TheVision [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:45 ]
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I went to see a medium once with my mom. I don't believe in ghosts or the after life or anything like that but my mom wanted to go so I went with her out of curiosity.

The medium was a woman who used to be a man. I say used to be a man, I'm pretty sure it was just a stocky guy with a deep voice in a dress but there you go. Anyway, she did the usual guff by going around the room and saying stuff like "I can see a man... a man in an apron... Over this side of the room... Does anyone know a man who had an apron who has passed on?"

The whole thing was ridiculous and people were clinging onto the slightest hint that their recently deceased were trying to get in touch. It did absolutely nothing to convince me that there's anything after death.

I believe that we experience the same thing after death as we did before we were born. Absolutely nothing.

Author:  MaliA [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:51 ]
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Mediums make me very cross as they cynically prey on people's hope and desperation for money.

Author:  Zardoz [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:04 ]
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Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:12 ]
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I’ve seen clips of that chap before. He annoys me more than pretty much snyone that’s been in TV, ever. Partly because he’s doing that nonsense to begin with, but more because he’s so BAD at it. It’s a seaside end of pier show type of awful, without the performer/audience distance to take the edge off of the shamefully bad performance.

Author:  markg [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:14 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Mediums make me very cross as they cynically prey on people's hope and desperation for money.

That's hardly a new racket. Churches have been at it since pretty much forever.

Author:  MaliA [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:21 ]
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markg wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Mediums make me very cross as they cynically prey on people's hope and desperation for money.

That's hardly a new racket. Churches have been at it since pretty much forever.


I'm disagreeing there. Briefly: I think religion can play a large part of helping to form a feeling of togetherness and community. In (others) death, this helps people be less lonely, and there's people and processes to deal with grief, with the rituals and so on.

Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:25 ]
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I think both of those positions are true.

Author:  Cras [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:32 ]
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Mimi wrote:
I think both of those positions are true.


Agreed

Author:  GazChap [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:44 ]
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For me, the biggest argument against any of this stuff is that surely anyone that was genuinely able to communicate with the dead would be of huge interest to scientists around the globe. Yet none are.

Similarly, I know that time travel will not be possible in my lifetime because if it were, my current self would tell my future self to travel back to some point in the past and give me a sign.

Author:  Zardoz [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:46 ]
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You did do, but that's on another timeline now.

Author:  JohnCoffey [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:48 ]
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“Fun”Sally wrote:
JohnCoffey wrote:
At first I just shrugged it off, then one day she punched me in the stomach. That was about two weeks before I threw her out (literally and physically) however, she then claimed (because she still thought I was interested) that she could no longer contact "Monty" but instead was getting to people who were horrible and nasty.

Perhaps you were looking for words in the gibberish, probably not knowingly. Your ex wife had mentioned she could now only reach people who were horrible and nasty, and had very recently done something particularly horrible and nasty herself. Maybe this was your subconscious telling you something rather than people from the other side?

I’ve watched some things on YouTube where people use spirit boxes - seems similar to your ex’s technique. They had a little machine that switched through radio stations 8+ times per second, so in theory if any words came through it must be the spirits manipulating it. It only ever produced one syllable words “Mike”, “go”, “run”, and a lot of the time they were making massive leaps to get to those words basing them around things they already knew about the supposedly haunted places they were visiting.
I remain sceptical but intrigued.


Yeah we ended up with about ten old radios. Problem is none of them were suitable. There are quite a few ways people do it :)

GazChap wrote:
For me, the biggest argument against any of this stuff is that surely anyone that was genuinely able to communicate with the dead would be of huge interest to scientists around the globe. Yet none are.

Similarly, I know that time travel will not be possible in my lifetime because if it were, my current self would tell my future self to travel back to some point in the past and give me a sign.


There was an experiment done many years ago where they locked a film roll into a box. I can't for the life of me remember what it was called though. I think all of the scientists who do engage in it keep it quiet. In fact, other than the people asking for Paypal donations I think most still do at fear of being ridiculed. It's still an enormously taboo subject and something that most dimiss out of hand.

MaliA wrote:
Mediums make me very cross as they cynically prey on people's hope and desperation for money.


ITC has nothing to do with mediums. In fact, if I even so much as mentioned mediums or "ghosts" she used to fly into one.

Author:  Zardoz [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 13:02 ]
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The radio is acting as the Medium in your scenario though isn't it?

Author:  Kern [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 13:06 ]
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Thomas Edison is believed to have attempted to build a 'spirit phone' to talk to the deceased, and presumably to rip off their ideas.

Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 13:07 ]
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Zardoz wrote:
The radio is acting as the Medium in your scenario though isn't it?

That’s why it’s called medium wave.

Author:  Cras [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 13:09 ]
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JohnCoffey wrote:
There was an experiment done many years ago where they locked a film roll into a box. I can't for the life of me remember what it was called though. I think all of the scientists who do engage in it keep it quiet. In fact, other than the people asking for Paypal donations I think most still do at fear of being ridiculed. It's still an enormously taboo subject and something that most dimiss out of hand.


It's not taboo at all. It's dismissed out of hand because it's never once been demonstrated publicly to be anything but nonsense.

And if scientists engaging in it keep it quiet then they aren't scientists. Evidence, peer review, and repeatability are what scientists do. Not secretly saying they've done things that can't be reproduced. The very fact that there is no reproducible evidence of the paranormal is pretty strong inherent evidence that it's utter horseshit designed to make money out of the credulous.

Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 13:14 ]
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You misspelled cretinous.

Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 13:21 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
You misspelled cretinous.

Hmm... I don’t know. I don’t think people are stupid to believe these things, but desperate a lot of the time, and that can lead to a certain naivety and willingness to believe in things that might usually be dismissed more readily. Grief is one of the main starting points (along with serious illness) for a belief in the afterlife and a hope of making contact with it.

Author:  MaliA [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 13:53 ]
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The thing that irks me about my death will be not being able to see Cras when he goes to collect The Riches I am leaving him in a lock up garage I am leaving to Riles secured with a padlock left to Kern needing a key left to Malc.

Author:  TheVision [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 13:55 ]
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MaliA wrote:
The thing that irks me about my death will be not being able to see Cras when he goes to collect The Riches I am leaving him in a lock up garage I am leaving to Riles secured with a padlock left to Kern needing a key left to Malc.


These are those deck chairs aren't they? Still one of the funniest things I've ever read.

Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 13:55 ]
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All your brother gets us a padlock to which he has no key?

Harsh.

Author:  Bamba [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 13:59 ]
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GazChap wrote:
Similarly, I know that time travel will not be possible in my lifetime because if it were, my current self would tell my future self to travel back to some point in the past and give me a sign.


There was a Warren Ellis story once about time travel wherein, due to Reasons, no one could travel back earlier than the point the time machine was first invented. This mean that that nanosecond the inventor completed it like every single time traveller that would ever exist suddenly arrived because everyone inevitably wanted to go back to the earliest point they possibly could; and that was it. I can't remember anything else about it, so I might be inventing parts of this or even the entire thing.

Author:  Cras [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 14:23 ]
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MaliA wrote:
The thing that irks me about my death will be not being able to see Cras when he goes to collect The Riches I am leaving him in a lock up garage I am leaving to Riles secured with a padlock left to Kern needing a key left to Malc.


Grim... driving a tractor is an excellent key.

Author:  Zardoz [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 14:25 ]
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Mimi wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
The radio is acting as the Medium in your scenario though isn't it?

That’s why it’s called medium wave.

:D

Author:  Zardoz [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 14:27 ]
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Cras wrote:
And if scientists engaging in it keep it quiet then they aren't scientists. Evidence, peer review, and repeatability are what scientists do. Not secretly saying they've done things that can't be reproduced.

Absolutely. I'm not a scientist and I engage in activities that I keep quiet about and can't reproduce.

Author:  Malc [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 14:40 ]
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Mimi wrote:
All your brother gets us a padlock to which he has no key?

Harsh.


Yeah, but I get key! woo!

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 14:46 ]
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Cras wrote:
MaliA wrote:
The thing that irks me about my death will be not being able to see Cras when he goes to collect The Riches I am leaving him in a lock up garage I am leaving to Riles secured with a padlock left to Kern needing a key left to Malc.

Grim... driving a tractor is an excellent key.

In.

Author:  MrChris [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 14:53 ]
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Shouldn't it be a brand new combine harvester?

Author:  Cras [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 14:56 ]
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A combine is plainly the wrong tool for smashing in a lockup door.

Author:  krazywookie [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 14:57 ]
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Cras wrote:
A combine is plainly the wrong tool for smashing in a lockup door.

And a tractor isn't?

Author:  MrChris [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 15:07 ]
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Cras wrote:
A combine is plainly the wrong tool for smashing in a lockup door.

If someone is like "I'll give you the key" to a piece of farm equipment, what should it be?

Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 15:11 ]
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The farmhouse WiFi?

Author:  Squirt [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 15:13 ]
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I'm sure i remember hearing of a spate of bank raids where people where just scooping up whole cash machines from the wall with giant diggers and driving off. That's the sort of direct, nonsense approach to crime I can see Grim and Cras getting behind.

Author:  RuySan [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 15:14 ]
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Sorry to be back on topic, but mandatory wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia

False pattern recognition is probably the first pillar of faith. How many people do not believe in coincidences and attribute them to fate and the presence of an higher power that governs their lives? I was raised in an atheistic family, so it was kind of scary, later on in my life, to realise how many people believe in fate.

And sorry about everything you and your ex-wife went through JC.

Author:  MrChris [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 15:15 ]
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Squirt wrote:
That's the sort of direct, nonsense approach to crime I can see Grim and Cras getting behind.

That might have been a typo, but it was spot on.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 15:21 ]
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MrChris wrote:
Squirt wrote:
That's the sort of direct, nonsense approach to crime I can see Grim and Cras getting behind.

That might have been a typo, but it was spot on.

Have played GTA with them, can confirm.

Author:  JohnCoffey [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 15:40 ]
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RuySan wrote:
Sorry to be back on topic, but mandatory wikipedia entry:
And sorry about everything you and your ex-wife went through JC.


As am I. But when you are diagnosed with two pretty severe mental illnesses the last thing you should do is one day all of a sudden stop taking all of your medication, taking none. That was where the wheels fell off. I did everything I could, but you can't force medication down someone's throat. From that moment on she became incredibly belligerent, even stooping as low as picking a fight with my 73 year old mother reducing her to tears. The empathy only goes so far, and that was stepping over the line. Then she filed a pretty much non existent complaint with my mental health centre, making my life terribly awkward and so on.

Any way, I kinda suspected that many would dismiss the topic out of hand and I was kinda right, hence why it took me over six months to want to post about it. I figured once we found Higgs Boson the puzzle was solved, but even that doesn't answer all of the questions. Scientists recently found out that brain activity continues for quite a while after death.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 20131.html

And as of now we have absolutely no idea what it is doing. Some have suggested people actually know they are dead.

Of course I am not talking about quacks here, or people who profit by "cold reading" and etc. ITC has nothing to do with any of that.

Author:  Zardoz [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 15:41 ]
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MrChris wrote:
Cras wrote:
A combine is plainly the wrong tool for smashing in a lockup door.

If someone is like "I'll give you the key" to a piece of farm equipment, what should it be?

Your mum.

Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 15:55 ]
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I think most people here have sympathy for what happened I think it’s completely understandable that many people turn to a hope of a connection post-death which they seek via religion, the paranormal or other means. I don’t think people are dismissing your experience as a non significant one to you or your ex partner.

But (and there’s always one!) I think if you’re asking did anyone else here believe in it before you started the thread the answer is no, at least from the people who have replied. That’s fair enough. I’d say it was a minority belief and interest.

If you’re asking people to seriously consider it a possibility, though, I think you need to give a bit more foundation and evidence towards the possibility other than personal anecdote and an experiment you can’t remember. It’s not that people do not believe or have cause to doubt the experience you have, but many people have given a very valid reason why your interpretation of the phenomena might be something other than you heard (the fact that you and the only other person to hear these words both heard different words supporting that).

If you had the clip in question and other people could hear and you played that to a big enough group of people it that may have made a few people believe, more conclude it was just a coincidence and the result of the need to interpret and find patterns in everything around us, which every person on this forum apart from me has mentioned.

Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 15:56 ]
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I found something!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroni ... munication

Author:  RuySan [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 16:00 ]
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JohnCoffey wrote:
RuySan wrote:
Sorry to be back on topic, but mandatory wikipedia entry:
And sorry about everything you and your ex-wife went through JC.


As am I. But when you are diagnosed with two pretty severe mental illnesses the last thing you should do is one day all of a sudden stop taking all of your medication, taking none. That was where the wheels fell off. I did everything I could, but you can't force medication down someone's throat. From that moment on she became incredibly belligerent, even stooping as low as picking a fight with my 73 year old mother reducing her to tears. The empathy only goes so far, and that was stepping over the line. Then she filed a pretty much non existent complaint with my mental health centre, making my life terribly awkward and so on.

Any way, I kinda suspected that many would dismiss the topic out of hand and I was kinda right, hence why it took me over six months to want to post about it. I figured once we found Higgs Boson the puzzle was solved, but even that doesn't answer all of the questions. Scientists recently found out that brain activity continues for quite a while after death.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 20131.html

And as of now we have absolutely no idea what it is doing. Some have suggested people actually know they are dead.

Of course I am not talking about quacks here, or people who profit by "cold reading" and etc. ITC has nothing to do with any of that.


I just hope this isn't true. Being aware of being dead sounds terrible. Also, something from Philip K Dick's Ubik, which was horrific enough in parts.

Author:  Bamba [ Thu Jan 11, 2018 16:07 ]
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JohnCoffey wrote:
Of course I am not talking about quacks here, or people who profit by "cold reading" and etc. ITC has nothing to do with any of that.


Really? I mean I can't get into any of the actual sites here at work because my employer is wisely blocking all this nonsense, but even the text snippets that come back from a Google search for "spiritualist voice recorder" would suggest that so called spiritualists and mediums are using this sort of technique.

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