AndyTheRadioMan's Blog (7)

Over the past couple months, I've discovered......or should I say, been a participant in something very strange. Let me start by saying, I'm fairly new to doing alot of things like Instant messaging, and chat rooms. Only in the past several months have I really started talking to a regular group of friends in a few different "arenas". One friend I'll catch in a chat room, or IM conversation......and another unrelated friend from another group I might catch in another chat room, or a different I… Continue

What am I up to???? Not much!!!! Just working and playing with many gadgets, and helping some friends out with their paranormal radio show on Sunday nights as a "tech advisor" of sorts. I do have some plans to participate in a few Paranormal investigations this year, but we will see how things work out as the year progresses. My next investigation will likely be to Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky. I'm sure everyone who's into the paranormal field has heard all the hype about this place.....… Continue

I've found that the more I investigate reports of paranormal activity, and the more I see what other groups are presenting as "evidence" of the paranormal, the more skeptical I become of this entire field. Back when I first got REALLY interested in this stuff about 10 years ago or more, it was a very magical type of thing for me. The group called GIS were the ones who really got me going on this paranormal bandwagon, after hearing them present their EVP's on Coast to Coast AM. Because of them, I… Continue

I'm not sure if anyone else is using something like this in paranormal research or not, but I had the thought of using a piezo disk as a microphone for recording EVP's. Piezoelectric disks are flat golden colored things that look alot like a coin, and are usually found being used as buzzers in things like computers or alarms, or sometimes in those singing greeting cards and helium balloons. They work as a speaker when voltage is applied to them, but they also work as a microphone that is sensiti… Continue

In my last blog, I talked about the ghost hunting rules of pulling hair back during an investigation............

Long story short, I made a huge oversight in my rant.

I couldn't understand how with todays modern digital cameras, which normally a person hold the camera at arms length to take pictures using the LCD screen on the back of the camera, how someone could get a hair in the picture using that method. I COMPLETELY overlooked the Digital SLR cameras!
Those are the lar… Continue

Something I don't really get in the "rules of ghost hunting" have to do with what can only be called the "dress code of ghost hunting". I'm always hearing how when you're ghost hunting, you should pull long hair back into a pony tail, and not wear any shiny jewelry. The theory behind these rules is so that long hair doesn't get in the way of a camera lens and cause a "false positive" in a picture (AKA- something that one believes to be paranormal in a photo), and shiny jewelry can cause reflecti… Continue

There has been alot of "hype" recently about the device called "Franks Box"....AKA - "The telephone to the dead"....AKA - "The Ghost Box".
This device supposedly allows two way commuications to the dead. The electronics inside consist of an AM radio tuner, a random voltage generator to tune the radio randomly, and audio amplifiers for the speaker and recording jacks. When the unit is turned on, it starts randomly tuning up and down the AM radio broadcast bands......the same ones you get on y… Continue