For just about as long as we as a species have believed in spirits and the afterlife, there have been those of us who have wanted to punch through the veil that divides us and communicate with the other side. There have been many methods for doing this, from seances to Ouija boards, to more modern devices such as EVP recordings and “spirit boxes,” but some of the more bizarre are those cases of mad inventors trying to craft machines and other contraptions that would allow us to commune with spirits and even let them come tumbling into our world.
