Ladies
and gentleman step right and I’ll tell you the tale of a man. A man who created
the wizard of Menlo Park, a man who create the light bulb, a man who held over
1,093 patents…a man who could give Dr. Ray Stanz and Egon Spengler a run for
their money. That’s right folks I am talking about the one and only ghost
hunter/buster himself…Mr. Thomas Edison (and the crowd goes wild).
That’s
right, the man who gave us the electric light bulb and motion picture camera,
the man who was one of the top inventors of the world was actually dabbling in
the world of ghost hunting. Now it wasn’t like the ghost hunting we know of
today with the fancy equipment such as EMF detectors, Ovilus, electric voice
recorders or FLIR cameras but he was working on a device that would be able to
let us, the living, communicate to the dead.
Not
many people are aware of this because of their distaste for ghost hunting in
the aspect of overly dramatized supposedly real tv shows or they just think is
creepy. However Edison was a man always looking to the next thing and that
happened to be the Ghost Machine. Now the evidence of such a machine created by
Edison to have actually existed is a bit of a mystery as there were no plans or
actually machine ever found. Just the faint words of a man, a great man, spoken
in an interview to the October 1920 issue of The American Magazine, “I have
been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for
personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us."
Many
people speculate that this machine did in fact exist, but has somehow been lost
over time. Could this machine been created by such a great inventor and lost
over time…anything is possible I would suppose.
However
in my opinion, as much as I would love to stumble across the only ghost machine
to have been made by Edison I would bet it never made it from his mind into the
real world. He was always thinking and creating things in his mind and while
some may have been made, some were only written down and sadly to say only some
were just thoughts.
Some
people think that Edison would never think of creating such a machine yet I
present two things to you for your consideration. The first being is that at
this time of the world the Spiritualist movement was beginning to hit the
Western world so why wouldn’t someone begin to think about communicating with
the no longer living. And lets look at the next theory, the fact that when he
made this statement he was ten years away from his death, he was a brilliant
man who knew his time on earth was limited and maybe he wanted to have a way to
still keep inventing even after he had past one into the afterlife.
Be safe and remember it was only a matter of
time till he invented cable TV,
Jon Bolton
Jon Bolton
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