- We mourn those who pass away
because we know we will never hear their voice again.
We grieve because we know
we will never be able to tell them how we feel,
but the reverse is not always true.
Events have been documented of those
who have passed on communicating with the living,
and those messages are not always positive.
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Here are 10 scary messages sent from the great beyond.
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Number 10 is automatic writing.
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Some of the scariest alleged messages
from the dead have been recorded
through what's known as automatic writing.
This technique involves a psychic randomly drawing
with a pencil until a spirit channels through their body.
The unearthly entity then begins
to write down the message.
Marguerite Dupont Lee was one
of the most famous practitioners
of automatic writing in the 1900s,
and had a number of eerie encounters.
In one of the most chilling spirit messages
of Marguerite's career, she claimed
that her friend, Minister Kemper Bobcock,
who died in 1904, instructed her
to take up photography, for some reason.
When she took his advice and started
to photograph herself and her surroundings,
the photographs revealed a ghostly figure
sitting in a chair near her,
watching her from beyond the grave.
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Number nine are emails from the dead.
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We all use email regularly,
but what if we clicked on our inbox one day,
and saw a message from someone that we knew was dead?
That's exactly what happened
to the loved ones of Jack Froesa.
Jack had passed away suddenly at the age of 32,
causing tremendous shock to his loved ones.
This happened in June of 2011.
Just a few months later, his cousin,
Jimmy McGraw, and his friend Tim Hart both reported
that they had received emails from Jack after he died.
While those emails provided Jack's loved ones
with solace that he was still around somewhere,
it's difficult not to feel a chill
on the back of your neck when you read
what some of his messages contain.
One of the subject headings, for example, was I'm Watching.
In one of Jack's last messages,
he was quoted as writing, "Did you hear me?
"I'm at your house."
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Number eight is Klaus Schreiber's image.
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The spirits of the dead have reportedly left more
than just written messages.
In some instances, they've allegedly
imprinted their images onto video.
A man by the name of Klaus Schriber claimed that,
after receiving a message from his dead daughter
on how to communicate with the spirits
of the dead using video,
that he was able to reliably reproduce images
of people who had passed away.
This involved hooking up a video camera
to a television screen,
and then filming that resulting image on said camera.
This created a strange infinite loop
of eerie, warped lights.
Schreiber then claimed that he found images
of the dead inside of those lights.
Before Schreiber himself passed away,
some say that he communicated
that he'd survived death.
This is because, when others use Schreiber's technique,
his expressionless face came peering out of the static.
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Number seven are phone calls from beyond.
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Many people claim that they have received phone calls
from people that they know have passed on.
In one such case, author Dean Koontz received
a mysterious phone call from a voice
that sounded very much like that of his dead mother.
The voice simply repeated, "Please, be careful."
The voice then faded away to nothing but static.
When the phone fell silent,
Koontz persuaded himself that he had simply just imagined
that it was the voice of his mother.
Just two days later, when visiting his alcoholic father,
his dad attacked him with a knife.
Taking the knife off of his father,
the police arrived, and nearly shot Koontz
for carrying the weapon.
It was the message from his mother
that made him act quickly and drop the knife,
and indeed, he did have to be careful.
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Number six is interference.
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Investigating instances where individuals claim
to have been contacted
by the dead using technology, Dr. Imants Baruss
from the University of Western Ontario began an experiment
which some believe succeeded in contacting the dead.
Recording the static between radio stations,
the experiment provided
some weak evidence for communication.
However, a followup experiment using a computer program
which randomly switched between the words yes
and no had more success.
Asking a number of yes or no questions,
the computer program seemed to be guided
by an unknown force to answer many
of the questions correctly beyond statistical chance.
Expanding this to a device
which generated random words,
strange messages were then recorded,
including creepy references to cryptic figures of light.
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Number five is the Philip experiment.
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One of the most bizarre messages
from the spirit world was allegedly
during the Philip experiment of 1972.
Conducted in Toronto, this experimented tested a theory
that imagination can create sentient entities.
The experiment involved creating
a fictional historical character,
and then attempting to communicate
with that character via a seance.
The name agreed upon was Philip Aylesford.
When the seance commenced,
they began to receive answers from this fictional creation.
While some argue that the experiment was a hoax,
others claim that it was another spirit claiming
to be Philip, but what is certain is that,
when one of the experimenters told the ghost
that they had created it,
the messages from Philip ceased.
If true, it brings into question just what terrors
that the human imagination can bring into existence.
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Number four is a time capsule.
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It used to be common for children
to bury messages under the ground
in boxes known as time capsules
for people to discover decades later.
One such box was found in Albuquerque
near a former elementary school.
It was dated to 1968,
and contained letters from a school class that year.
The children had wrote about their school,
their lives, and even their favorite TV shows,
but one message stood out,
a rolled up piece of paper which read, and I quote,
"I am dead.
"I go to Montgomery School.
"That is the oldest school name.
"I was born in 1900."
The message goes on to say
that the writer of the note enjoys spooking the police,
ending with, "See you later, savages."
Of course, it could be that the note was a joke
from one of the children in the class.
However, some argue that its strange wording
has an unearthly quality.
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Number three is ghost writing.
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Terrifying messages from the dead have been scratched
into the walls of haunted locations.
This reportedly occurred at the Borley Rectory,
often known as the most haunted house in England.
During paranormal investigations
of this haunted house, messages from either spirits
of the dead or demonic entities
reportedly appeared scrawled onto the walls.
This included the name of a young woman
who lived in the house, Marianne,
which was often written on the walls
by an unseen hand.
Eventually, messages were found such as,
"Marianne, please get help."
The messages then asked witnesses
to hold a mass and to pray.
Marianne had no idea
what this alleged ghost wanted with her,
or how she could've helped,
but when asked what it wanted,
the entity simply wrote one word, rest.
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Number two is the witch elm writing.
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One of the deepest alleged messages
from beyond the grave began to appear
after the discovery of a woman's skeletal remains in 1943.
The body was discovered inside a witch elm tree
in the woods just outside of Hagley Hall in England.
The woman's body had been there
for at least two years, and had been suffocated.
Shortly afterwards, a bizarre piece of graffiti appeared
on a nearby wall.
It read, "Who put Bella in the witch elm?"
The same piece of graffiti had appeared sporadically
around where the woman's body was first discovered,
and has continued to be written for decades.
No one knows if the woman's name was really Bella,
and no one knows the origin of the writing,
but some have hypothesized
that the question is a cryptic message
from the dead themselves,
one which may eventually point to her murderer.
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Number one is Jane Goldman Investigates.
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Jane Goldman is a successful Hollywood screenwriter,
but she also had a short-lived television series
in the early 2000s which investigated paranormal phenomena.
In one of the episodes of the show,
Jane received a chilling message.
The episode was about electronic voice phenomena,
the theory that voices
from the dead can be recorded through microphones.
- What is that?
- [Man] That's a body.
- [Jane] That's a body.
- At one point in the episode,
Jane interviewed an EVP expert who claimed
that she'd recorded a message from the dead
which told her that someone close to her was going to die.
The voice said that person's name
following by the words, "It's their time."
Jane joked that it would be frightening
to record an EVP which told her of her death,
and at the end of the episode,
that is exactly what happened.
Jane captured an EVP of her own
which simply said, "It's your time."