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Issue 5
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Weapons Of Choice……..Do we really nees millions of pixels?
Interview……...In depth interview with Past’s medium Kevin.
Gresley Old Hall…….Investigation review
The Most Haunted Place…….Feature by Tomo Warrington
A True Story……..One to make you think
Poltergeists……...How they differ from regular hauntings
Echovox………..Does it really work?
Beyond Parazine is edited and compiled by
Past Investigations/Hauntings
With many thanks to our contributors.
WEAPONS OF CHOICE
As paranormal investigators we
have a tendency to acquire a
vast array of equipment, some
of which we deem to be
essential to our chosen field.
Some of these items may
simply be in vogue or trendy at
the time, we have all probably
fallen into the trap of seeing
another team on television or
otherwise rave about a new
piece of kit and instantly think
‘I NEED THAT!’
But, do we?
Some items of equipment are
unquestionably useful to have
and it’s with one of these that
the majority of people have
access to that this short article is
about – ‘The Digital Camera’.
There are thousands of digital
cameras on the market all
coming with a multitude of
functions and features which
range in price from under £50
to well over £1000, a good
camera is in the long run an
investment and cost will
inevitably play a part in our
choice, however, bare in mind
the majority of pictures we
take are in the dark in
secluded areas so ask yourself
do I really need all of the
functions I am paying for?
Probably not!
One of the main
considerations we all make in
choosing a digital camera
(apart from cost) is how many
Megapixels the camera is,
once again the choices open to
us are immense the majority of
cameras are somewhere
between 5 and 20 Megapixels
some go even higher,
but do we actually need a 25
Megapixel camera when we are
shooting in a pitch black room
at 3am... the answer will
probably be no.
I tend to use cameras that could
be deemed as mid range, these
are:
Sony Cybershot DSC-W12
5.1mp
Agfa DC-1030b 10mp
Fuji Finepix s1600 12mp
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS11
14mp
All of them apart from the Fuji
are compact cameras that easily
fit into a pocket; the Fuji is
styled more like an SLR and
needs to be hung round the
neck (which can sometimes be
problematic). The picture
quality on all of them is good,
however the one major differ-
ence is the size of the images
this only really poses a problem
when you are taking 100s of
pictures, the higher pixel rate
pictures soon eat up your
memory card!
memory card!
Below are 2 images taken from
the Cyberpix and the Lumix,
there isn’t much difference in
the quality even though there is
a big difference in the Pixel
rate of each camera.
Sony Cyberpix
Panasonic Lumix
As can be seen from the 2
images there isn’t much to
choose between the two,
however the price difference
within the cameras and the
features would suggest that
a massive difference with quality,
and there isn’t... Price and
features don’t mean much to us
for what we do.
What I would suggest, and this is
only my personal opinion, is get a
reasonably priced mid range spec
camera HOWEVER invest in a
good quality fast SD card. This
combination won’t let you down
and in the long run they may also
become your weapons of choice.
End Note:
SD cards are all rated on speed
as well as capacity, there will be a
small number within a circle
which denotes the speed of the
card (2,4,10,16 etc) the higher the
number the faster the card, this
can make a vast difference in the
time the camera takes to actually
write to the card, which in our
field can be the difference with
getting that once in a lifetime
picture and missing it....
Happy hunting and stay safe.
Nick Evans 2014
Kevin is a highly valued member of
our team, Past Investigations/
Haunting, he is rapidly gaining a
reputation for his accurate readings
and his friendly approachable style.
Time after time Kevin has proved
his abilities during investigations,
having previously been guest
medium with big event companies
we are privileged to have him as a
member of our team.
Week after week he is being
inundated with requests for
readings from people all over the
world. Many of you will have
enjoyed reading Kevin's features in
previous issues of this magazine,
this month we wanted to get you all
a little closer to our team medium.
1. How did you feel when you
connected with spirit for the 1st
time?
To be honest I was very
emotional constantly crying as if
my guide was wanting me to
connect with them for so long, it
was not until I released from that
night that it happened to me that
I would ever do mediumship or
be a medium as it had never
crossed my mind before as I was
a complete sceptic, but when I
connected that night after about
twenty minutes of constant crying
I felt at ease, for some strange
reason it was as though I had
realised something had wanted to
grab my attention for so long.
2. What sort of reaction did you
receive from friends and family
when you told them about your
mediumship gift?
My side of the family was ok with it
as my mum used to go to open
circle so they were all fine with it.
When I was in the army all my
mates before they knew that I did
mediumship were fine with me,
until the joys of Facebook and
someone joined my group Kevin
Peters Medium the word got
around and I started losing quite a
few friends, this upset me for a
while and I felt like packing it all
in.
Then one by one my friends that
never talked to me anymore
started to ask for readings off me,
over the next six months I must of
read for nearly everyone in my
regiment as word started to get
around.
Also in my new job when I was in
training and they found out that I
do mediumship I had the whole
team wanting readings.
3. Do you find it difficult to 'switch
off' when you’re not working?
When I first started out I did find
it hard to switch off as I was
wanting more and more all the
time, it started to take over my life
so to say. I found a church where I
live, Long Eaton Spiritualist
Church, where I started to attend
‘open awareness’ and then I went
to ‘open circle’ where anyone one
can go and learn to work with
spirit.
It was none stop giving readings,
platform work, plus my day time
job as a soldier, It got that bad that
I ended up having a car crash as I
was that much involved, the signs
where there, sounds stupid at the
time but as I came home to pack
my bag for work I had about eight
flies hit me one at a time and I
never thought anything of it until I
was traveling to work in my car.
So I do believe karma has a big
part in life and to be honest I
thought I was the bees knees, I can
do this and I can do that, it was
taking over my life and I was
burning out and that was spirits
way of saying slow down, I truly
believe that, but now I don’t find
it hard to switch off. Sometimes
when I’m out and about like
shopping I want to go up to
people and give them a message
but I have learnt to control it now
and switch on when I want to
switch on and shut down when I
want to shut down.
4. Was you surprised when you
discovered your abilities to
communicate with spirit?
At first I was as I was like ‘how did
I do that?’ and hearing and seeing
the look on clients faces as to say
how could you possibly know that,
I have never said or told that to
anyone in my life before and you
say it.
It still surprises me to this day but
I have trust in my guides that I
work with and what they give off
5. Where do you see your gift as a
medium taking you in the future?
Well we can all dream but to be
honest I want to be up there with
the best mediums in the world,
give up my day job to do it full
time as the way I see it I’m helping
others connect with their loved
ones and re assuring them that
there still here with us and looking
over us.
I would like to thank
Past Hauntings for the questions
that have been put forward to me.
Kevin.
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LOCATION
Gresley Old Hall, Derbyshire
DATE
25th July 2014
CONDITIONS
Hot and still
The team for the night was Sean
(myself) Sarah, Kevin, Daniel,
Sian, Leon, Zara and Ash.
We arrived at the hall at around
quarter to 7, myself, Kevin and
Daniel went into the building to
put the equipment in the base
room whilst the rest of the team
had a wander around outside,
almost as soon as we went in we
heard what sounded like heavy
footsteps stomping around
upstairs, we decided to go and
see if anyone was up there that
shouldn't have been, as you go
upstairs into the older part of the
hall there is a door which we
opened all the way back to the
wall.
You can see the door in this photo
on the left hand side, the stairs go
into the older section.
We carried on through the top
rooms and there was nobody else
in there, which we knew would be
the case, but you have to check.
Whilst up in the attic rooms Kevin
began calling out, asking for a re-
sponse, we heard some tapping
sounds and what sounded like a
childs voice but it was too faint to
make out clearly.
As we were there we heard a very
load bang, as though a door had
been slammed shut with real
force, we quickly went around
looking for any doors that were
closed, after checking all the
rooms we noticed the main door
to upstairs was shut.
We went down and reopened it
taking note that there was not the
Slightest breeze or draught.
The rest of the team were still
outside at this point, we pushed
the door right back and were about
to go downstairs to begin getting
the equipment ready when we
noticed the door beginning to
slowly close, it was a very smooth
action and then it stopped, around
18 inches from being closed,
Kevin then said why don’t you just
slam it like before, no sooner
where the words out of his mouth
and the doors slammed with
incredible force.
Now here's the strange part, the
door does not have a latch on it to
hold it closed when it is shut,
physics dictates that when any kind
of door without means of latching
is slammed with force it will
bounce back from the door frame.
This door didn't!!
As it slammed it stopped dead
against the frame, Kevin then
asked for the door to be opened, it
slowly began to open, it went
around 6 inches before slowly clos-
ing again. Kevin had now picked
up on the spirit of a man standing
on the stairs, he wasn't happy with
us being there.
We had now opened the door
fully and were asking him to
move it again but it didn't move a
single millimetre.
Kevin said he is just stood there
on the stairs watching us when
suddenly his presence went.
We waited a few more minutes
before going back downstairs to
unpack the equipment which we
were now wishing we had done
straight away, oh well personal
experiences are still good.
Once we were all ready we
decided to begin in the attic.
We began asking questions trying
to get a response and were hear-
ing a few knocking sounds which
seemed to happen on cue. One
of the team then caught a glimpse
of what appeared to be a small
girl peek at us from an opening in
one of the walls, we began telling
the spirit not to be afraid of us
and we then heard a small girls
voice although we were unable to
tell what was said, evp analysis
still didn't clear it up.
Kevin invited the spirit to come
and talk to us at which point she
linked with him, she said her
name was Beth and she used to
live in the hall.
At this point we heard footsteps
coming up the stairs, a couple of
us went to investigate but found
nobody there although whilst
stood looking down the stairs the
steps could clearly be heard
creaking as though somebody
was stood there shifting their
weight.
In the meantime ‘Beth’ was
continuing to communicate
through tapping sounds with other
team members, Kevin picked up
that the spirit on the stairs was a
man, he was not happy with us
communicating with the little girl.
He also felt that this was ‘Beth's’
father and she was very scared of
him. His presence lingered on the
stairs for a few minutes before
heavy footsteps were heard stamp-
ing back down the stairs, some of
us followed down and searched
through the other rooms but the
mans presence seemed to have
gone, Kevin couldn't pick him up
any more.
Upstairs in the attic it seemed
‘Beth’ was having a great time,
team members felt they were
touched and a torch turned on
without anyone near it.
At this point we decided to have a
break before going to another
room, we thanked ‘Beth’ and told
her we would be back soon and
she was more than welcome to
come forward again.
After a short break we went into
what is believed to be a bedroom
that was once bricked up to hide
the evidence of a horrible crime.
We began doing some glasswork
and almost straight away ‘Beth’
came in and began working the
glass, we had an amazing time
with the glass confirming much of
the history we know about the
place, I wont go into the history
and the questions/answers hear as
I do not want to ‘preload’ any
other teams who might go to this
fabulous place but just say that
the session confirmed an amazing
amount of details.
While we were all in this room
yet again there was an incredibly
loud bang from somewhere else
in the hall, two of the team went
went to investigate and found that
the stairs door had slammed shut
again, we had considered it may
be caused by a vacuum effect if a
door is opened downstairs to
outside but debunked this as there
are other doors between the
outside one and the one that slams
shut also as mentioned before
when it slams it just stops dead
and it is a loose fitting door with
no catch.
As we were doing the glasswork
the atmosphere in the room
suddenly changed, a heaviness and
that sensing you get when
something is about to happen, the
glass began behaving erratically,
moving in small jerks, previously it
had been moving very smoothly.
Kevin picked up that this was the
man encountered before who had
called himself ‘David’, ‘Beth’s’
father, Kevin told him he had to
get off the glass to which it
immediately shot to the NO point
on the table and then began to
move in very fast circles, everyone
was covered with goose bumps as
the atmosphere got thicker, Kevin
demanded that the spirit of ‘David’
left the glass and the room, he had
to demand it a couple of times
before he left, the room changed
almost instantly, as though a switch
had been flicked and felt normal
again.
‘Beth’ returned to the glass and
again confirmed the questions we
asked, time for another break,
again we thanked ‘Beth’ for
communicating with us and left for
a short break.
After the break we tried some
table tipping but only got very
slight movements, Kevin didn't feel
anything in any of the rooms, we
did hear the odd noise coming
from various rooms but couldn't
say any of them were paranormal,
everything was now very quiet after
what had been an extremely active
four hours.
Gresley Old Hall is an amazing
place, never lets us down.
The following page is photos from
inside the hall.
“The Most Haunted place in the universe! Well we think so anyway”…
Now this label of being “The
Most Haunted”, has been
bounced around for many
years now. Harry Price
labelled one of his books on
Borley Rectory “The Most
Haunted House in England”.
This is a bold statement to say
the least.
What gives a place, the right
to label itself as “The Most
Haunted”?
Does it calculate the total
amount of experiences?
Or is it the volume of
sightings per square foot?
Nobody really knows, and
personally I think generally it
boils down to marketing.
If we take the cities of York
and Derby, here we have two
places that believe and state
that they are the “The Most
Haunted City in England”,
and compete on a daily basis
with their world famous ghost
tours and events that draw
investigators and tourists
alike. Both cities have
extensive history that go with
it and is an excellent
concoction for ghostly
phenomena, but is this
enough for them to be
labelled the “The Most
Haunted?” for me this isn’t
enough.
Now the quiet village of
Pluckley has been given the
label of being “The Most
Haunted Village in England”
and even better than that they
also hold the Guinness world
record for this infamous title.
Where will the need to be top
dog stop? Or will these
coveted titles just spurn on
others to try and outdo each
other to claim similar labels…
Within Secret Hauntings we
tend to stay away from places
like this, purely for the reason
that we believe that these
places have been overrun
week in week out by ghost
hunters and tourists
countlessly spending hours
and hours hoping to catch a
glimpse of one of the many
famous ghosts that are boldly
claimed to be roaming about
at regular intervals.
There are a lot of teams out
there that I do take my hat off
to, they take the time to
research areas,
look at the options and follow
up everything by going out
into the field to search for
places that have never been
investigated before, which is
what we do at Secret
Hauntings.
I’m sure like others we also do
the odd “big venue” for the
public now and again but I can
never see the general public
attending a venue that has no
stature with regards to places
in the paranormal realm.
This brings us back nicely to
the big marketing label.
I have a strong belief that
when a supposed haunted
location has been investigated
into the ground, the place will
start to lose any sort of energy
that was once housed within
the area….or are the spirits
just simply getting fed up of us
calling out for them and
asking questions they don’t
want to answer, maybe they’ve
packed their bags and moved
off into another realm far
away from the big ghost
hunting companies that
hammer theses amazing
venues.
Personally when I hear the
title “The Most Haunted”
alarm bells start ringing, and
avoid at all cost springs to
mind.
We have investigated some of
the biggest venues in the
country and also investigated
places that haven’t been
discovered by groups yet, and
the evidential phenomena
found was no surprise at all to
us. We do find that places that
haven’t been widely docu-
mented as being investigated
before seem to house a
stronger energy which fits
nicely to the idea of places
being over investigated.
So when you next decide to
pay a ridiculous amount of
money towards a big venue
that has been given the
infamous title, take a step back
and have a think as to why it
may have been labelled, “The
Most Haunted Place in the
Universe”.
Thomas Warrington (Co-founder
and Lead Investigator at Secret
Hauntings)
It was late one night and during
heavy rain when a man was
driving home down a remote
country lane, he spotted two
women stood by the side of the
road.
Being very late and very wet he
was concerned for them so
pulled over and offered them a
lift.
The two women gratefully
jumped into the car and
thanked him for his kindness
and began directing him to their
house.
As he pulled up at there house
the women invited him in for a
quick drink to say thank you for
the help, which he gratefully
accepted.
The house was very large and
grand and he commented on
this saying how lovely the place
was. The women introduced
themselves as mother and
daughter and handed him a
small whiskey.
He thanked them and asked if he
could smoke, the women didn't
object so he took out a cigarette
and his lighter, the younger
woman remarked what a lovely
lighter it was, the man explained it
was a present from his wife, the
woman asked if she could look at
it and he handed it to her.
Suddenly realising what the time
was the man thanked them for his
drink and said he had to go. The
two women bid him farewell and
he ran to his car and left.
The following day the man
realised he had left his lighter at
the women's house, being a
present from his wife he had to
go and get it back.
Luckily he remembered where
the house was but was a bit
surprised when he pulled up
outside and noticed what a bad
state of repair the house looked
in, it looked so nice last night,
maybe it was due to tiredness and
the weather he thought.
He knocked on the front door
and got no reply, then noticing
the door wasn't fully closed he
pushed it open and went in
calling out the girls name.
The place was covered in dust
and clear that nobody had lived
there for many years, by now he
was very confused, this only got
worst when he noticed a set of
footprints in the dust, he
followed the footprints across the
room and that’s when he spotted
his lighter sat on the fireplace.
By now he was completely bewil-
dered, he walked across the
room to retrieve his lighter.
As he reached out to pick it up a
voice came from nowhere,
‘’I knew you would be back, its
such a lovely lighter’’
The man grabbed his lighter and
ran from the house as fast as his
legs would go without even
glancing back.
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Determining the difference between poltergeist
activity and ghost or haunting activity can some-
times be difficult.
While ghost and haunting
activity can be the result of
spirit energy, poltergeist
activity, also known as
"recurrent spontaneous
psychokinesis" or RSPK , can
be the result of psychic energy
generated (usually
unconsciously) by a person,
referred to as an agent.
How can you tell there might
be poltergeist activity in your
home? Usually, you'll know
because it is out of the ordinary
and pretty obvious, sounds,
movements, and odours of
unknown origin.
Here are 7 of the most
common types of poltergeist
activity. But just because you
experience, or think you
experience, one or more of the
activities listed below does not
automatically mean that it
definitely is a poltergeist.
There could be more mundane,
everyday causes for the activity.
For example, smells of unknown
origin could be wafting in from
an open window, lightings
flickering on and off could be
faulty wiring. You should always
seek logical explanations before
jumping to the conclusion that it
is poltergeist activity because
true poltergeist activity,
although it is a
well-documented with many
hundreds of real cases, is
relatively rare.
A professional investigator
should be able to help you to
determine the cause of what
you are experiencing.
Here are 7 signs to look out
for.
1 . DISAPPEARING
OBJECTS
You put your keys or your cell
phone down in the place you
always put it. You turn around
a minute later and it's gone.
You and your family search
high and low for it, but it
cannot be found. Later,
sometimes days later or longer,
the object mysteriously
reappears in the very place you
always put it.
Or, stranger still, you later find it
in a most ridiculous place, like
high on a bookshelf, in a box in
the garage... or some other spot
where you'd never put it in a
million years.
2 . OBJECTS LEVITATING
OR THROWN
You're sitting there watching
TV, totally engrossed in what is
on, when suddenly the bowl of
fruit rises from the coffee table,
floats through the air a few feet,
then drops to the floor.
Or... you're having a loud
argument with your teenage
daughter, and as she storms out
of the room, books and
knick-knacks come hurtling off
of the bookcase, as if reacting to
the young girl's anger.
The movement of physical
objects like this can be quite
dramatic and can be as slight as
something very small sliding a
few inches across a table top or
as amazing as a heavy table, or
appliance levitating off the
kitchen floor.
3 . SCENTS AND ODORS
No one in your house smokes,
yet sometimes the distinct
smell of cigarette or cigar
smoke can be smelt in the
bathroom. Or... as you're
dressing for bed, suddenly the
overpowering scent of flowers
fills the room.
All kinds of smells can enter
your house from the outside,
even from a passing car, so
such scents might not
necessarily mean poltergeist.
Scents and odours can also be
a sign of ghost activity as they
might be associated with a
spirit or with a residual
haunting.
4 . ELECTRICAL INTER-
FERENCE
A young boy is having a tough
time in school, and sometimes
when he enters the living room
with that scowl on his face, the
overhead light and lamps flick-
er. Or... It's 3 o'clock in the
morning and you're shocked
out of sleep by a stereo turning
on full blast - and it's doesn't
have a remote control that
could have set if off accidental-
ly, either from inside or outside
the house.
5. POWER FROM NOWHERE
The old clock on the fireplace
mantle hasn't worked in years, but
you like how it looks there, so
you've kept it. Quite suddenly, it
begins to chime and the second
hand resumes moving, even
though the clock hasn't been
wound in ten years. Or... it's 9:15
p.m. and the little kids are sound
asleep in bed when suddenly you
hear some electronic toy begin to
beep and whir. You think that's
odd, but you switch it off and put
it back down. A few minutes later,
the toy starts up again. Thinking
there's something wrong with the
switch, you open the battery
compartment to remove the
batteries... but there are no
batteries in it!
6. KNOCKS, RAPPINGS,
FOOTSTEPS, AND OTHER
NOISES
You're sat watching your
favourite program, but you find
it hard to concentrate when
your husband is in the other
room banging on the wall for
some reason. You go to
investigate, but then remember
your husband is out shopping,
he isn't even home. No one else
is. So where's that knocking
coming from?
Or... the family is the kitchen
table deep into a heated game
of Monopoly. Suddenly, all the
chatter stops when everyone's
attention is drawn to the sound
of footsteps coming down the
stairs. You check it out, but of
course there is no one there.
7. PHYSICAL ATTACKS
A twelve-year old can't stand
how her parents are always
fighting. The constant yelling
and screaming are driving her
crazy. She sits on the floor in
the corner of her room, crying
with her face in her hands.
She winces from a sudden pain
on her back. When she checks
it in a mirror, she finds fresh
scratches.
Or... the poltergeist activity,
from unexplained bangs to
flying pots, has been escalating,
and the young girl seems to be
the centre of it all. It got at its
worst when a visitor received
sharp slaps across the face,
seemingly from an unseen hand.
Physical attacks such as these
have been documented, but
they are exceedingly rare and
occur only in the most severe
cases.
HOW DO YOU
RECOGNIZE A
POLTERGEIST CASE?
An experienced paranormal
investigator should be able to
help you find out if what is
taking place in your home, is it
poltergeist activity or a
haunting, which can sometimes
exhibit similar effects, or
whether there is a logical,
non-paranormal explanation.
In the case of a poltergeist, the
investigator should look for
other signs. Since poltergeist
activity may be a psychic effect
rather than a spirit-based one,
the investigator should try to
determine who the agent could
be, the person who could be
generating the telekinetic
activity.
Many kinds of stresses can be
the cause of this activity,
including emotional, physical,
psychological, and even
hormonal stresses, and so the
investigator should try to
examine the personal and
family dynamics.
The investigators should place
locked off cameras at various
locations where activity has been
reported and conduct a search
of all possible other
explanations, pipework, heating,
loose doors and windows,
draughts etc.
They should perform a very
thorough investigation of the
property, the properties history
and site history, readings should
be taken all throughout the
entire investigation utilising the
equipment they should have
including a medium who will
hopefully be ale to confirm any
history discovered.
Luckily most cases of poltergeist
activity are short-lived, lasting
only days or a few weeks.
It is rare indeed that they stretch
out for months or more.
Most of the time they just fade
away on their own.
But of course some don’t.
ECHOVOX Does it work?
Or
Just another
Gimmick?
As paranormal investigators we are
always looking out for the next
piece of equipment, Google play is
a favourite hunting ground for us.
Just searching the words ghost or
paranormal brings up what seems
like hundreds of apps for our
phones and tablets.
Many of these are free but some do
cost money, as I am sure we have
all found out most of them are a to-
tal waste of time and do not actually
do anything apart from take up
memory space on our devices, I
suppose it’s the idea that what we
do is for entertainment purposes
only and not to be taken
seriously.
That brings us to The Echovox.
Does it work, how does it work
and is it a waste of our hard
earned money?
Writing this I can only express
my personal opinion and
experiences using this app.
Unlike the useless ‘ghost radar’
apps that seem to just repeat
the same few words Echovox
uses a real time amplified
recording system used to create
a bed of random chaotic noise
using random phonetics,
microphone input and a
natural loop recording echo.
Echovox uses a delay system
which can be set from 0 to 10
seconds, this means what your
hearing is actual audio being
recorded in real time.
We have found that setting the
delay at either 3 or 5 seconds
seems to work best.
There are also 4 audio
channels, A, B, C and D which
you can adjust using the sliders
in the menu, we have found
that the best results seem to be
achieved with all four sliders set
almost on full but this is down
to personal preference and
experimentation.
The mic gain again is
something to experiment with,
we have it set around three
quarters and this seems to work
well.
You will find that it works best
with an external speaker
attached to your device but you
may need an audio extension
for the speaker to avoid feedback,
also it is easier to hear through
than the device speakers.
Whenever you use Echovox it
stores the recordings on your
device which is a great feature but
we also record the sessions with a
digital voice recorder as back up.
As for the burning question….
Does it actually work?
In our opinion, yes it does.
We have used it on a few
investigations now and had
success every time, unlike the
‘ghost radar’ apps it doesn't just
come out with a small selection
of random words which if your
lucky one may just coincidently
have a vague link to your
question.
Echovox has come out with
location names when asked
were we are, peoples names
(that have tied in with known
history of locations) yes and no
answers, we have introduced
the team, pointed to a person
and asked their name, it came
out with the correct answer!
As with any device that ran-
domly generates noise you do
have to listen carefully but once
you have used it a couple of
times you soon adapt to picking
up the replies.
All in all we as a team think it is
a great addition to any paranor-
mal teams equipment, maybe at
last the software developers
have created something that is
actually useable and not just a
way of getting us to part with
our money for nothing.
If you are looking for some free
apps that are also good on an
investigation, these are worth check-
ing out.
Vibrometer (vibration meter)
This works just like a geophone and
detects even the slightest movement.
Sound Meter
A very sensitive meter for detecting
sounds in a location, we use both of
these free apps and found them
both to be useful.
