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It’s almost 10 p.m. on a Saturday night and I’m sitting in pitch-black darkness inside a Victorian house in East Oakland. There’re about 15 other people here — each of whom paid the $50-$75 ticket price for tonight’s five-hour event — and we’re all sitting on the floor, waiting with bated breath as our guide, a flaxen-haired medium from Colorado named Chris Moon, makes his first attempt of the night to communicate with the dead.
“We’re not here to disrespect you in any way,” Moon says aloud, in a calm, even voice. “We’d like to speak to you, not speak at you. The reason we are here is to learn more about you, to help you in any way, and to have a conversation with you. Would you like to speak us tonight?”
“Yes.”
The voice that answers Moon is thick and raspy, and it doesn’t belong to any of the people in the room. It came out of a device that Moon brought with him: a wooden case known as a ghost box that uses radio frequencies to allow two-way communication between the spirit and living world. When the device is on, it sounds not unlike you’re scrolling through an AM/FM radio dial, catching bits and pieces of various stations, songs, and programs.
But if you ask it a question — and listen very closely — you’ll hear coherent words and maybe even phrases. These snippets, Moon tells us, are the spirits answering us back. And tonight, in this 134-year-old house that has seen at least three people die within its walls, there is no shortage of spirits eager to communicate with us.
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