Hey peoples,
I got this NEWSLETTER from GHOSTVILLAGE.COM (Another very good site)
Thought I would share...

Dear Ghostvillagers,

Thomas Edison was a believer. There can be no doubt. In his speeches, journals, and writing he referenced on multiple occasions a machine he was building to try and communicate with the dead. In a 1920 essay, Edison wrote: "Now what I propose to do is furnish psychic investigators with an apparatus which will give a scientific aspect to their work. This apparatus, let me explain, is in the nature of a valve, so to speak. That is to say, the slightest conceivable effort is made to exert many times its initial power for indicative purposes. It is similar to a modern power house, where man, with his relatively puny one-eighth horse-power, turns a valve which starts a 50,000-horse-power steam turbine. My apparatus is along those lines, in that the slightest effort which it intercepts will be magnified many times so as to give us whatever form of record we desire for the purpose of investigation. Beyond that I don’t care to say anything further regarding its nature. I have been working out the details for some time; indeed, a collaborator in this work died only the other day. In that he knew exactly what I am after in this work, I believe he ought to be the first to use it if he is able to do so."

Some would say Edison was swindled by Spiritualists in the latter part of his life. Not so. Edison was a true scientist and ruled out no possibilities his entire career as an inventor. On November 29, 1875, when Edison was just 28 years old he called a press conference because he thought he discovered a "new force," described as an "etheric force" based on a mysterious force theorized by German chemist Baron Karl von Reichenbach (1788 – 1869). Reichenbach claimed he discovered a force that could explain supernatural phenomena – he named this force "Od," "Odyle," or "Odic" after the Norse God Odin. Edison read Reichenbach's work and was curious. He looked for it and even thought he discovered it in 1875, but later realized what he witnessed in an experiment was a natural arc of electricity. This month we're going to explore the supernatural side of Thomas Edison and look more closely at his notes on his spirit communication machine.

Wow I did not know this about Thomas Edison, thats something they didn't teach
us in school, and if they did I sure don't remember it !
Although it seems I remember my grandfather telling me Edison attempted to build
a time machine, or was trying to figure out how to make one. I forgot about that until
just now ... hmmm think I will do a little searching and see what I can find on Edison,
and Time Machines .. This was very interesting SammyTerry thanks for sending in. Off
now to find the blue prints on "build your own time machine"

That is pretty interesting, I'd never heard anything about Edison being connected to a ghost communication machine. I did a google search to see what more I could find out about it. I read conflicting stories from several different places as to whether or not he actually built it. They all agree that he did talk about it, and there's a few quotes floating around out there. Some people say he never built it and the plans for it were never found.
Some say he built it but didn't perfect it before he died. When he died the prototype was passed on to a couple of his peers, who communicated with Edison from beyond the grave at a New York seance. Edisons spirit suggested modifications...they tried them, it still didn't work. One of the 2 inventors working on it died, and he came back also, through yet another seance, with yet more modifications. There's no more info after that other than the plans and the machine "mysteriously dissapeared" at some point. Some say Edison was the first to come up with the whole EVP idea with the invention of that machine.
It's interesting to speculate about, thanks for the info SammyTerry

Thanks for looking further into it Luna.
I wonder what happened to the machine?..sounds like a case for Fox Moulder..Hah..

well i was reading in one of my magazines last night about a machine just like it, out in existinse right now, its called "franks box", i still havent gotten much info about it, but i want to do some more research on it, but it seemed pretty legit! there are a few thats out and being used by paranormal investagators and they are swearing by them!

Is this the thing that doe's what all the other paranormal equipment doe's..and then some?!
I think I seen something on Sci Fi channel last week about that...

it could be idk, i have a subscription to the T.A.P.S magazine, and they had an artical of it in there, they gave a few websites that they had gotten refrences from, i tried to goggle it and not much came up, i guess the guy who made the machine is a secretive kind of guy. hes not out there trying to sell it, its just something he invented out of curiosity...theres only a few select people who own them, heres a few websites they had in the artical if u want to check them out....
www.hauntedtimes.com
www.worlditc.org
www.cprinvestigations.com
www.ghosttown.tv
www.aaevp.com

Thanks....you go gothgirl

lol im so not goth, a lil dark maybe....... but not goth

Oh...i'm sorry toni, I thought you once mentioned that you were into goth
and something about asking your daughter if she thought you looked like Elvira?
and something about your ears? haha... maybe that was someone else,
but i've always been kinda' dark too...

lol yea that was someone else, i actually remember that conversation too, nope wasnt me but i am a little dark.....

hey that's pretty neat, so they named a ghost odic ?

that's what the article claims brother bear

alright brother bear, who names a ghost anyway, what if the ghost comes pissed saying "IM' NOT ODIC DAMN IT!"

haha..thats funny, but I'm sure you've read some of the stories where people name a ghost that visits a lot...

amazing stuff alright, when that one team made a ghostly experiment, they started believing in a non-existing ghost so much it then came, and when they decided to tell us "you are only our imagination, you don't exist" it dissappeared, I forgot his name.. gigan ? you there ?

I don't want to offend anyone here but I believe that Edison was a liar, a cheat and a thief. If you've ever read about Nikola Tesla, you would believe the same. Tesla was offered the task of a complete redesign of the Edison company's direct current generators. During his employment, Edison offered Tesla $50,000 (equivalent to about $1 million today, adjusted for inflation) if he redesigned Edison's inefficient motor and generators, an improvement in both sevice and economy. Tesla said he worked night and day to redesign them and gave the Edison company several profitable new patents in the process. During the year of 1885, when Tesla inquired about the payment on the work, Edison replied to him, "Tesla, you don't understand our American humor," and reneged on his promise. Tesla resigned when he was refused a raise to $25 per week. He ended up digging ditches, ironically for Edison's company. He died penniless while Edison benefited from Tesla's invention of the Alternating Current motor, and it took over 40 years for the US supreme court to recognize Tesla for the invention of radio. Almost 3/4 of Edison's work should be accredited to Mr. Tesla, rest his soul.

Welcome to GM, IndridCold

Im not offended at all , I like a lot of people, never even heard about Edison's machine until I read this article .
Maybe that whole Tesla ordeal is the reason why it' hasn't been publicized(much).
And if all this is true (not that I have a reason to doubt you) it is very sad for Mr. Tesla.
But even sadder, is that kind of thing it seems has always been the "American way".

There was an episode of Mythbusters where they tested Teslas Earthquake Machine. Just a small model of it made a whole bridge vibrate, it was pretty cool. There's alot of conspiracy theories revolving around Tesla's inventions, like what happened after he died to his papers about the alleged "Death Beam" he created, or the new source of energy that he found that would've changed life as we know it today. It's some pretty interesting stuff. I don't know a whole lot about it, but one thing I can tell you for sure, is that the band Tesla used to be pretty good back in the 80's, and "Love Song" is my favorite tune by them. So there you have it.

I should pass that on to the CEO's at my work. I work for General Electric, founded by Thomas Edison, lol.

that should be interesting to see what they would have to say about it lol

Just curious to find out if the device Edison was working on was similar to that of the x-ray machine. If so, that would be great because I have been trying in theory to do the same thing.

Oh yeah, Edison was a really enlightened fellow:

http://inventors.about.com/od/hstartinvent...ctric_Chair.htm

hahaha!

That proves he rocked, hah not just he found the AC/DC methods but he also gave Brian Johnson the Idea of the band's name

Thomas was a great man and I wish there were more like him today.