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Description
This device enables the user to hear and speak to
ghosts and spirits of the dead. It consists of a normal
telephone receiver connected via an amplifying induction coil to a
long glass tube. The tube is filled with low-pressure gas
which is ionized by a high-voltage electric current. Spirits
who speak in the vicinity of the tube have their voices picked up
and reproduced by the telephone receiver. By speaking into the
receiver, the operator produces etheric fluctuations within the tube
which the spirits can hear (this assumes that spirits are normally
unable to hear living beings). If no such communication is
made, the user may be able to eavesdrop on spirit conversations
without the spirits' awareness. If spirits are affected by
etheric disturbances, they will be able to detect the use of a
spirit phone nearby, but might not understand what it does.
Some ghosts may be eager to communicate with the
living. Others may be shocked or even hostile when they
realize what is happening. Spirits may be convinced to provide
information or assist the user in other ways only by verbal
coercion, unless weapons which can affect spirits are available as
threats.
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