Understanding Paranormal Tech Then and Now. A Field Guide to What’s Exciting

A playful field guide to the paranormal tech built to measure the afterlife, from Victorian Spiritoscopes and ectoplasm cabinets to EVPs, Kirlian cameras, and modern ghost boxes, is listed here. Are we missing anything? If so, please comment!

Paranormal Tech - What keeps A Ghost A Ghost?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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Once You’re in Brooklyn 45, There’s no Escape

Every once in a while, a supernatural gem will present itself in all its post-Depression era glory. Brooklyn 45 explores all the manic problems of the day and then some!

Brooklyn 45 Movie PosterAvailable to stream on Shudder Network

In Brooklyn 45, a movie set after the end of World War II, four lifelong friends’ desire to communicate with the other side is led by one individual (Larry Fessenden) who believed his wife was killed. Perhaps they should’ve been careful in entertaining an old fool.

What they summoned would become the stuff of nightmares, and this frightful whodunit has the makings of a perfect Lovecraftian style of dread. We’re not dealing with cosmic entities here. Instead, it’s in what sordid histories get unearthed and how one deals with the truth! What these friends (played by Anne Ramsay, Ron E. Rains, Jeremy Holm, and Ezra Buzzington) discover about each other that night is certainly a life changer.

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Tron Legacy. The Franchise and The Future in Jeopardy

TRON Legacy expands the original’s digital mythos, exploring the dangers of perfectionism, the consequences of creation, and the search for meaning within a machine-made world. Beneath its dazzling neon visuals lies a story about legacy, responsibility, and the human spirit coded into every program.

Tron Legacy new IMAX PosterThe most enduring gift TRON gave pop culture is its glowing, neon aesthetic. Its CGI style still looks sleek today, and back then, who didn’t want to toss a glow-in-the-dark Frisbee? TRON Legacy takes that iconic look and pushes it even further.

Original creator Steven Lisberger tapped into the same space-fantasy energy that fueled a Star Wars generation. Swap out lightsabers for identity discs, and you’ve got familiar thrills. This sequel puts the spotlight on Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) and his long-lost father, Kevin (Jeff Bridges). When a mysterious page appears on Alan Bradley’s (Bruce Boxleitner) phone, Sam is pulled into the Grid—and straight into his father’s unfinished business.

Inside the digital world, both Flynns wrestle with pride and the fallout of trying to play God. Kevin set out to build a perfect system, only to unleash chaos—a Pandora’s box of his own making. His creation isn’t just rebelling; it craves recognition.

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