Thomas Alva Edison is well known for introducing the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the first incandescent light bulb. But his most startling invention was plans for a spirit phone that could contact people living in the afterlife. One of his motivations to produce the spirit phone was that his foremost rival, Nikola Tesla was working to develop his own version of a phone to communicate with people living in the afterlife. In this video, Dr. R. Craig Hogan describes Edison and Tesla’s plans for a phone that could contact the afterlife and reads the communication from Edison about the phone after he passed into the afterlife.
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Edison and Tesla were bitter rivals in the development of electricity. Tesla’s alternating current, or AC, eventually won out over Edison’s safer but limited direct current, or DC.
There was another interest they shared in common. Both believed there is life after death, and both were determined to develop devices that would allow people on Earth to communicate with people living in the afterlife.
Around the turn of the 20th century, when electricity was first being used to light rooms at the flip of a switch and make images move onscreen, the idea of using technology to contact spirits seemed feasible. Tesla considered this possibility while experimenting with a crystal radio powered by electromagnetic waves in 1901. The signals he picked up one night were so unnerving that his scientific mind couldn’t help but think of spirits. He wrote in his diary “My first observations positively terrified me, as there was present in them something mysterious, not to say supernatural, and I was alone in my laboratory at night.”
In 1918 he wrote of similar voices he heard after tinkering with another radio. He wrote, “The sounds I am listening to every night at first appear to be human voices conversing back and forth in a language I cannot understand. I find it difficult to imagine that I am actually hearing real voices from people not of this planet. There must be a more simple explanation that has so far eluded me.”
Edison was intrigued by the evidence that people live on after the death of the body. When he learned that Tesla was building a device that would communicate with the afterlife, he set out to build his own device. In 1920, he told The American Magazine, “I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities who have left this Earth to communicate with us.” Others later referred to this device as his “spirit phone.”
As with all his experiments, the development of the spirit phone was rooted in science. Edison pulled from the work of the physicists of the time, particularly the theories of quantum entanglement and Einstein’s theories about mass and energy. Edison thought that since it is possible to convert mass to energy, then perhaps the spirits of living people become coherent units of energy when their bodies stop working. And if entangled particles can affect each other across great distances, as the quantum entanglement theory states, then perhaps there’s a way for those energy bundles to interact with our physical world.
According to the authors of Edison vs. Tesla: The Battle Over Their Last Invention, Edison put a prototype of his spirit phone invention to the test in 1920. He invited both mediums and scientists to observe a mysterious experiment. They saw a projector-like machine set out on a workbench that emitted a thin beam of light onto a photoelectric cell. The illuminated cell was meant to detect the presence of forces and objects moving through the beam—even those invisible to the naked eye. If a being from another world were to attend the gathering and pass through the light, a meter hooked up to the photoelectric cell would let them know, Edison explained. He continued working on his “spirit phone” throughout the 1920s.
Edison was certain a device could be developed to communicate with people living in the afterlife. He even made plans to continue his work after his death. Edison transitioned into the afterlife in 1931, but leaving Earth didn’t stop him from working on the spirit phone. He provided the specification for a spirit phone device through a group of afterlife researchers called the Scole Group.
The Scole group held meetings between 1993 and 1998 under the direction of researchers and mediums Robin and Sandra Foy and Alan and Diana Bennett in the cellar of Foy’s 17th century farmhouse in Scole, England.
The Scole Group met one evening in November 1996, as usual, and were visited by an individual in spirit who had a message for them about the spirit phone device. Those present included the four group members and three researcher guests: Montague Keen, of the Society for Psychical Research, David Fontana a Professor of Psychology at Cardiff University, and Arthur Ellison, a Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at the City of London University. During the session, a spirit scientist instructed them on how to build the spirit phone device. He explained that the researchers must incorporate a piece of the metallic element called germanium, put under a small amount of pressure.
The germanium device was a receiver they were to attach to a battery-run amplifier and tape recorder. The device did not receive radio signals but worked on an unknown principle that would help them communicate with the spirit world. There was no microphone attached. But those in the spirit world would be able to communicate, the speaker explained.
The Scole Group received more information about the device in a diagram that appeared on sealed film once it was developed. The Group put sealed, undeveloped film cartridges in a box during their sessions. At the end of the session, they would have the film developed. It would always contain writing across the length of the film, spanning multiple individual snapshots. After the speaker from the afterlife spoke to them, they took the unexposed from the box and had it developed. On the film was a diagram of the device the person in spirit described. The film also had the clear initials TAE, for Thomas Alva Edison. The researchers compared the initials to the signature of the initials he wrote when he was alive on Earth. The signatures matched perfectly.
Professor Arthur Ellison of Cardiff University was at the meeting when Edison communicated to the group. Using the specifications, Ellison built the device. Then, on January 21, 1997, the Scole group experimented with it. At first, there was only white noise. Then they heard a faint voice calling, “Hello.” When they listened to the recording of the session, they heard the voice clearly.
“Hello?” a man’s voice said. “Can you hear me? Can you hear me? This is Thomas calling. Can you hear me? Hello.”
The voice continued, “I shall continue this transmission in the hope that you can hear me clearly. You understand my friends, that we are experiencing some difficulties, but we feel sure that these will be overcome. However, we feel we have made considerable progress upon the last attempt to communicate with you. We have, for some time, been involved in an experimental communication system, and it is this system that we are using now. It is hoped that in the future, this system will enable us to communicate with those distant dimensions, and if all goes according to plan, you will be part of these experiments. I shall repeat myself and say I do hope that you can hear this communication. We will stay here for a little longer; please be alert.
After a short pause, the voice continued, becoming clearer.
“Sometime in the near future, there will be many attempts made to communicate with you in this way. There are many people here who feel as I do that this work is of the utmost importance to mankind, and therefore are willing to put their hearts into these experiments. Thank you, my dear friends, thank you for co-operating with us and giving us this moment of your time. May peace be with all of you. God bless you.”
The communication ended after approximately 20 minutes. The speaker had left his initials on the film. It was Thomas Alva Edison.
You can watch a video with detailed explanations of the Scole Group and Arthur Ellison’s effort to build the spirit phone device at https://youtu.be/Vo5JVZ5pRyw
Since then, few attempts to build and use the Edison device have occurred. Instead, researcher Sonia Rinaldi in Brazil developed a method in which she records the voices of people living in the afterlife using standard audio recorders. Sheri Perl in the United States You can listen to actual recordings at https://youtu.be/FryqiCYUFMQ
From 1979 to 1982, researcher George Meek and medium Bill O’Neil used a device they created called Spiricom that successfully established two-way radio contact with the afterlife, producing clear, extended dialogues with a NASA engineer in the afterlife named Dr. Mueller. You can watch a video containing some of Meek and O’Neil’s recordings at https://seekreality.com/speaking-to-a-dead-scientist-over-a-radio-device/
The voice recordings of people living in the life after this life being made today are further evidence you will come to the end of this life, but you will never die.
