PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CURIOUS
ABOUT CONTACTING THEIR LOVED
ONES AFTER THEY HAVE PASSED.
INTRIGUE JOURNAL GIVES YOU A
LOOK AT THE WAY PEOPLE HAVE
DONE THAT.
THE TESLA SPIRIT RADIO.
IN 1920 THOMAS EDISON AND
NICOLA TESLA INDEPENDENTLY
EXPERIMENTS OF ANNA BENTLEY
MACHINES TO COMMUNICATE WITH
SPIRITS AND GHOSTS.EVEN TODAY
ON SHOWS LIKE GHOST ADVENTURES,
THEY ARE LOOKING AT A SPIRIT
BOX WHICH IS SIMILAR BUT AN
EVOLVED VERSION OF A CONCEPT
THAT ORIGINATED HUNDRED YEARS
AGO DURING THE SPANISH FLU
PANDEMIC WHEN MORE THAN 50
MILLION PEOPLE DIED FROM AN
INCURABLE DISEASE.
THE GRIEVING SURVIVORS WERE
DESPERATE TO CONNECT WITH THE
POOR SOULS THEY HAD LOST IN
INVENTORS EDISON AND TESLA
BELIEVED THEY COULD PROVIDE AN
ELECTRONIC DEVICE TO HELP
PEOPLE CONNECT WITH THEIR
DECEASED RELATIVES.EDISON
CALLED HIS THE GHOST PHONE AND
TESLA CALLED HIS A SPIRIT
RADIO.I SPOKE WITH OUR FRIEND
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSTLING
AUTHOR, BILL BURNS AND HE
EXPLAINED HOW THESE BRILLIANT
MEN THOUGHT THIS COULD BE
POSSIBLE.
TWO BRILLIANT AND RESPECTED
INVENTORS EXPERIMENTED WITH
DEVELOPING MACHINES THAT COULD
CONTACT THE DEAD WE SPOKE TO
BILL BURNS WHO IS THE FOUNDER
OF ANCIENT ALIENS UFO HUNTERS
AND A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE
UNSEALED FILES TV SHOW.
HE IS ALSO THE AUTHOR OF EDISON
VERSUS TESLA THE BATTLE OVER
THEIR LAST INVENTION.
HE TELLS US ABOUT THE RIVALRY
BETWEEN THE INVENTORS AND NOT
JUST WHY THEY WANTED TO CREATE
A DEVICE TO COMMUNICATE BUT
ALSO HOW THEY BELIEVED IT WAS
POSSIBLE.
AT THE TIME OF THIS RECORDING
THE CASES OF COVID-19 SEEM TO
BE RISING AS OUR POPULATION IS
GOING INTO LOCKDOWN.
PEOPLE ARE RECOVERING CASES ARE
NOT AS SEVERE IN THE DAILY
DEATH RATE SEEMS TO BE STEADILY
DECLINING OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T
WANT TO LOSE ONE SINGLE LIFE
BUT AT LEAST THINGS SEEM TO BE
MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
WHILE THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IS
MORE THAN ANYONE ALIVE CAN
IMAGINE THE SITUATION PALES IN
COMPARISON TO WHAT HAPPENED
ALMOST EXACTLY 100 YEARS AGO.
PEOPLE WERE DYING IN THE
STREETS THERE WAS NO WAY TO
TREAT IT.THERE WAS NO CURE.
NO WAY TO TREAT US.
IT CAME IN WAVE AFTER WAVE FROM
1918 TO 1919 IN 1920.
IN THE WAKE OF APOCALYPTIC
DEATH TOLLS COULD IT BE THAT
THOMAS EDISON SAW OPPORTUNITY?
SO EDISON SEEING THE DEATH
AROUND HIM IN 1920, IT WAS ALL
OVER.
IT WAS AS BARE AS IT WAS TODAY.
WORSE BECAUSE HOSPITALS WERE
OVERWHELMED.
SO HE FIGURED IF HE COULD BE A
WAY FOR THE LIVING TO TALK TO
THE DEAD IT WOULD BE THE
GREATEST CONSUMER PRODUCT IN
HISTORY AND THEY HAVE SO SHE
SET OUT TO DO, AND IT WAS A
GREAT CONCEPT HIS IDEA WAS IF
HE COULD HAVE A VIEW OF PHOTONS
THAT ARE NOW AVAILABLE.
HE BELIEVES IN QUANTUM PHYSICS
AND THAT HUMAN BEINGS WERE FROM
ALL LIFE ON PLANET EARTH
BECAUSE OF THESE THINGS CALLED
LIFE BASICALLY QUANTUM IF
YOU COULD CONVINCE A COLLECTION
OF COHESIVE QUANTUM FROM A
LIVING PERSON, TO CROSS THE
BEAM OF PHOTONS THAT WOULD
REGISTER ON A LIGHT METER AND
HE WOULD SEE THE LIGHT METER
AND YOU COULD SEE THAT TRIGGER
AND YOU WOULD KNOW THAT HE
CAPTURED SOME QUANTUM FROM A
LIVING PERSON.
SO HE WOULD GET THESE MYSTICS
AND CLEAR OF OIL YIELDS TO
SUMMON THE SPIRIT OF THE DEAD
TO CROSS THE LIGHT BEAM.
THAT WAS EDISON'S INVENTION.
THIS JUST DOVETAILS INTO THE
POINT YOU ARE MAKING.
THE OUIJA BOARDS IN THE SPIRIT
BOARDS WERE POPULAR.
OF COURSE THEY WERE.
THE SOI EDISON WORKING FOR
CHEAPER TO SOME OF THE SPIRITS
TO CROSS THE LIGHT BEAM.
HE WANTED TO INFUSE THE
LIGHTBULB WITH THAT OUIJA BOARD
TO COME UP WITH A HYBRID.
RIGHT.
TESLA HAD ANOTHER VIEW.
TESLA BELIEVED THAT ENERGY,
OIL'S INTERNAL AND HE WILL LOSE
THE VOICES OF THE DEAD WILL
STAY OUT THERE IN A FREQUENCY
HE COULD FIND.
HE BELIEVES HE CAN CAPTURE
SOUND WITH THOSE FREQUENCIES
NEVER DIED.
THIS EDT, AND SO TESLA INVENTED
THAT.
HAS THE TWO GREAT ENGINEERS,
THE GREATEST INVENTORS OF THE
20TH CENTURY, COMPETING WITH
EACH OTHER OVER WHO COULD FIRST
TALK TO THE DEAD THAT LASTED
UNTIL EDISON DIED EDISON WAS
TRYING TO TURN SIGNALS FROM THE
DEAD TO LIFE.
A VISUAL VERY AND TEST THOSE
COMING UP WITH AN AUDITORY
RESPONSE.
WHO HAD A VISION OF MAKING
CONTACT?
EDISON OR TESLA AND DEFEATED,
TRY IT OUT FOR YOURSELF.
TESLA, RADIO.
YOU CAN GET THE PLANS FOR IT IT
WILL COST YOU $30 IN PARTS.
GOOD LUCK.
SO PEOPLE WANT TO THINK YOU'RE
CRAZY.
THOMAS EDISON THOUGHT FAMILY
HAD A BIG PROBLEM ABOUT HIS
IDEAS.
SPOON TO HER VIEWS VERY
ENTHUSIASTIC IN AFTER HIS DEATH
THE FAMILY HAVE THOSE PAGES OF
HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY REMOVED.
CAN YOU IMAGINE LOOKING AT
SOMEONE SAYING, I CAN TALK TO
SPIRITS?
THAT FLEW RIGHT IN THE FACE OF
AMERICAN, CONSERVATIVE RELIGION
IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY.
INTERESTING.
VERY BRIGHT MOON COMING UP WITH
THIS.
PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN THIS
KIND OF THING.
IS IT BECAUSE WE WANT TO
KNOW?
WE DON'T WANT TO LOSE OUR LOVED
ONES.
SO THINKING THERE IS A WAY TO
TALK TO THEM, WE HAVE A HELP,
WE DON'T WANT TO LET GO.
I THINK WE WANT TO KNOW THAT
THEY ARE OKAY.
WE WANT TO NOTE THAT THEY ARE
OKAY.THAT'S ANOTHER THOUGHT.
I KNOW WHERE MY GRANDMA IS.
I THINK IT'S THE FIRST OF US IN
THE CONVERSATIONS AND TALKING
TO HIM.
ARE YOU THERE?
IS HEAVEN LIKE THAT?
JULIANN WAS DOING HER
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES AND THE
THING THAT GAVE ME THE MOST
GOOSEBUMPS WAS WITH THE PERSON
WHO SAW THE WHITE LIGHT CAME
BACK AND SAID THE WHITE LIGHT
WAS GOD'S BREATH.
THAT GIVES ME GOOSEBUMPS.
THAT WAS AMAZING.
SWIMMING DEFINITELY GOD IS
LIGHT.
ISN'T THAT AMAZING?
I HAVE READ A BOOK OF PEOPLE
WHO HAVE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES
AND IS INTRIGUING.
I DON'T THINK WE ARE SUPPOSED
TO CONTACT THE OTHER SIDE.
THAT'S MY PERSONAL VIEW.
THERE ARE THINGS WE ARE NOT
SUPPOSED TO KNOW UNTIL IT'S
TIME TO KNOW THEM.
I DON'T WANT TO GO TO A
SIANCE.
NO OUIJA BOARDS.
NO SIANCE.
I HAVE FRIENDS THAT DID.
I AM NOT INTERESTED.
I'M STILL NOT INTERESTED.
NO THANKS.
MY GRANDFATHER SAID HE
BELIEVES THERE ARE EVIL SPIRITS
AND DEMONS AND AS LONG AS YOU
ARE OPENING THE DOOR.
DON'T OPEN THE DOOR.
IF YOU ARE OPENING YOUR HEART
AND MIND TO THAT, THEY ARE MORE
LIKELY TO COME IN.
VERY INTERESTING STUFF.
THEY WILL BE IN BRANSON WITH
US ON THURSDAY.
DON'T GO ANYWHERE MORE FUN ON