Today on The Grave Talks, Ghost Box, origin story,, there was Bruce Halliday, a little boy who witnessed the spirit of a deceased family friend wandering the halls of his family's apartment building in Brooklyn, New York.

This single experience would later inspire Bruce to question and dig deeper into the concept

of being able to not only see the dead, but to communicate with him as well.

Several decades of research later, Bruce has been one of the key players in developing

and perfecting the practice

of what is today known as the Ghost Box. How did he get there? And what power does the Ghost

Box hold? That's what we discussed today on the Grave Talks. Well, actually, it was, I had an

incident that happened to me when I was a kid.

And, uh, I come from a very old-fashioned Italian family.

Uh, I was born and raised in Brooklyn.

And, uh, my grandmother and grandfather owned a six family apartment building.

And, uh, it was all family, you know, each apartment was either uncles or cousins,

you know, whatever. And I must have been about maybe eight or nine years old. And we used to,

the kids used to play in the hallways. You know, we used to have, it was three floors, three stories.

And we used to, you know, playing the hallways. We used to run up and down the stairs. And you know what kids do.

Yeah.

So I was on the bottom floor one day in the hallway.

And I was about to go upstairs to my grandmother's apartment, which was on the second floor.

And I started to go up the stairs.

And when I looked up, there was a real old gentleman standing at the

top of the stairs and he just stood there and he looked at me I didn't recognize him but you know

we always had like you know my uncles my grandfather you know neighbors were always coming and going

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