Spirit Boxes for Ghost Hunting

Technology is often the enemy of superstition, but a new iPhone app aims to convince you otherwise. Spirit Story Box, a 99-cent iPhone app launched recently by Roger Pingelton and Jill Beitz, of Greenwood, Ind., claims to detect and message nearby ghosts and spirits by tracking "certain environmental elements" around your iPhone and "examining values within the device that a spirit should theoretically be able to manipulate."

The subculture of pseudoscientific ghost hunting continues to evolve. Have you heard of a "ghost box?" It seems all you have to do is put the word "ghost" in front of something and it becomes technical jargon for ghost hunters, and also a great example of begging the question.

The P-SB7 or SB7 Spirit box was Designed by Gary Galka of DAS and used for ITC research.

The most difficult part in this is learning to hear the messages. Not everything that comes through the box is spirit box communication. Some of it is radio snippets. It takes time and practice to know the difference. I am still learning and probably will be forever.