The Estes Method: How A Broken Radio Can Make You Psychic

The Haunted Objects Podcast

SpectreVision Radio

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.9 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Summary

Manifested in the halls of America's most infamous haunted hotel, a misunderstood ghost hunting technique has taken paranormal research by storm... but it might have some weird psychic side effects. Karl Pfeiffer and Connor Randall, creators of The Estes Method, join us to share the never-before-seen history, in-depth experimentation, and fascinating secrets behind this groundbreaking sensory deprivation system, culminating in a finale that forces us to reconsider how the SB-7 Spirit Box experiment connects us with The Voices from Beyond. Tix to Haunted Objects: Live: https://www.newkirktour.com/ Subscribe on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/42xxbaw7Get HOP merch: https://planetweird.store/Visit our website: https://hauntedobjectspodcast.comFollow us on Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/y4rnpup9 SHOW NOTES: Watch Spirits of the Stanley: https://tinyurl.com/s6n8mpcp Watch Hellier: https://tinyurl.com/ms8dy8nz The Ultimate Estes Method Guide: https://tinyurl.com/y3xjup2r Pro Measure Shop: https://tinyurl.com/4bzmf92r Learn More About the Radio: https://tinyurl.com/yc22wvf4 Vic Firth Stereo Isolation Headphones: ⁠https://amzn.to/3WdZgK8⁠ SB7 Spirit Box: ⁠https://amzn.to/3KJiGUC⁠ Our Preferred Eye Mask: ⁠https://amzn.to/42fKINJ⁠ Part of the Spectrevision Radio Network Copyright 2025 Planet Weird Hosted by Greg and Dana NewkirkProduced by Connor J RandallPhotography / Editing by Karl PfeifferAdditional Research by Keelin MathewsArt by Dustin WilliamsProduction Assistance by Michelle RandallTheme by Adam Hayman“The Disembodied Voice" by Chuck Fresh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spectre Vision Radio
0:02.0	You live your whole life and then in one second you learn what it's like
0:10.0	for primal terror to swallow you, mind and body.
0:20.0	He was standing in the hallway,
0:23.6	but only on his left side by the bulb.
0:28.6	Just as he appeared in the photograph I'd found, he was very small, much shorter than his brother, my father,
0:40.3	Eric. The family had said he'd always been boy-faced and a bit skinny. Now, standing there,
0:47.0	he looked old and sick as well, but he looked angry too. Not for a moment did I think he was alive, and some terrible mistake had been made.
0:59.0	I knew instinctively that he was not really there, that I was looking at Herman in the depleted physical state he had died in.
1:09.0	He was wrong, he said again.
1:12.4	His whole body trembling slightly.
1:15.2	He jabbed his finger toward me, almost in tears.
1:19.2	I could have been a chemist.
1:21.1	I had the grades.
1:23.8	I think I tried to speak then, but was able.
1:30.7	Uncle Herman kept his finger pointed in a threatening way as if it were up to me to change the past. He turned with creaky slowness
1:38.4	and took a couple of steps deeper into the hallway toward the kitchen, leaving all light behind him, becoming a silhouette.
1:47.1	He turned back just before he reached the threshold of the other room.
1:51.2	His face was a black blur, but his voice was still clear.
1:56.8	"'There's a fourth body, you know, he said, voice, hoarse.
2:02.4	Shovel's still in the shed.
2:06.8	Knife Point Horror.
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