Frank's Box was an invention by a guy who believes that ghosts can make their voices

heard over the radio.

If you have one with a tuner, set to sweep across all the frequencies in just the right

way.

He collects all kinds of such recordings and makes them available.

He also gives away the schematics for his device so you can build your own.

Is it something worth looking into?

Frank's Box is today UnSkeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The many voices of Frank's Box.

Many times have the annals of the paranormal been graced with descriptions of Frank's ghost

box, an electronic device that is claimed to allow ghosts to communicate with us through

randomly tuned radio broadcasts.

Imagine tuning the knob on a radio, first imagine a radio that still works that way, and

recording the sound output.

You'd expect a bunch of random noise from across all those stations who just swept

past.

And that's exactly what Frank's Box produces.

But inventor Frank Sumpchon and many imitators who have built similar devices believe they

receive intelligent communication in that noise.

It's basically an iteration of what ghost hunters call electronic voice phenomena, the

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