From the early days when individuals wanted to make contact with the other side to present day, the choices in what to use as paranormal tech is few. They ranged from candles and balls of string to devices that became precursors to what’s used today. Back then, the people didn’t use stuffed dolls programmed to respond to strange activity. And REM pods is still considered a novelty. Some of these toys were created, rooted in belief at the time, and others are just plain weird.
This guide explores some of the most imaginative, audacious, and occasionally fraudulent contraptions created by folks with nothing better to do. Not all of them are truly useful, and if there’s ever a museum to showcase these curiosities, maybe they might rattle out a result to make the observer go hmm. What’s being sought out here is the reason why these creators made these devices. Some of them are precursors to what’s used now, improved by modern engineering; others are best left to rest as oddities in a trade that’s never going to be truly mainstream. Included are the inventors of their respective “toy,” when images of the product are lacking, or so varied, where no one version can say it all.
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