Paranormal investigators toting Apple iPhones have a new app at their disposal for getting feedback while visiting an alleged haunted location.
Ghost Radar, a software program written by Jack Jones of the unlikely-named company Spud Pickles, claims to have the ability to “analyze the quantum flux” using “a proprietary algorithm”. The app also permits the iPhone to become a flashlight, or go completely dark, depending on the investigator’s needs.
Ghost Radar product image from Spud Pickles.
“When the radar first starts it will be very sensitive to the noise in your environment, perhaps giving false readings,” Jones said on the app’s product website. “After several minutes of self adjustment the radar will learn how to filter out the noise. The longer the radar is allowed to run the more sensitive it becomes to anomalous readings. What those readings mean and how you interpret them is up for debate. The theory of what is happening is that intelligent energy can be made aware of their ability to influence the sensors of the iPhone and iPod touch. Much like the theory behind anomalous readings of a K-II meter. Try asking entities to interact with Ghost Radar.”
“The energy you are detecting can also try communicating with you through the scrolling letters,” Jones said. “The letters on the bottom right of the screen are an interpretation of certain readings from the flux. An intelligent energy should be able to influence the letters and communicate with you.”
Psychic medium Chip Coffey, famous for his work on “Paranormal State” and “Psychic Kids” has picked up some very interesting results with his. In a recent entry on his MySpace blog, Coffey discussed some of his findings with the app.
“The night before we were leaving to return home to Atlanta, Ghost Radar said the name ‘Bronwyn,’” Coffey said. “Certainly not a common name. The next morning, while standing at the hotel’s front desk, I noticed a rack of business cards for members of the hotel’s staff … and one of the front desk manager’s names is Bronwyn! (Now, that one really got my attention!)”
Coffey’s conclusions agree with Jones, that the readings could be coincidence, but are compelling.
Jones said that while some people believe that Apple does not put sensors in the iPhone or iPod touch, the devices are actually filled with sensors and transceivers. “To name a few, there is a WiFi transceiver, a touch sensor, an accelerometer, and a speaker on the second generation iPod touch and iPhones. Additionally on the iPhone there is a phone transceiver, a microphone, and a magnetometer.”
“You must decide for yourself if the readings are indicative of actual paranormal activity,” Jones said. “Keep a log of strange readings, or video tape your hunting. Allow the corroborating evidence to influence your view of Ghost Radar’s authenticity.”
River Cities Paranormal Society, a team of ghost hunters based in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, has created a wry video review of the program here:
RCPS does not use the Ghost Radar in an investigation environment, so their test could be called unfair, but the music used on the video soundtrack is excellent, which makes waiting nearly ten minutes to hear them eventually reject the app almost worthwhile.
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How do I get this soundtrack for my iPod? Screw the Ghost Radar, I want the tunes!
Hey does anyone know of any similar Apps for android?
@ Steve: The developer has a version for Android and it is actually pretty scary with what it finds. His web site is http://www.spudpickles.com/GhostRadar and you can get more information there.
I’m a soldier been to Iraq and Afghanistan killed insurgents in both tours the first time I ever turned this thing on it said “attention former enemy” I have more all recorded they won’t stop
In regards to “The River Cities Paranormal Society”: For one, I have googled as much as I could on these guys, to see the value of their credentials, and I can tell you…”Chip Coffey” or “T.A.P.S.”, they are not, they don’t even come close. In listening to the gentelmen that was speaking, seems he’s spitting random words, as if you may have noticed, he had quite a problem finding the right words to explain himself. SEVERAL TIMES. So, how can we take stock in any opinion from an illiterate individual, who tries to use big words, but uses them in the wrong way. (Kind of reminded me of an old “Damon Wayans” skit from the show..”In Living Color”…lol, where he’s a prison inmate who tries to sound intelligent by using big words, but he uses them in all the wrong contexts..lol. Anyways, as they were attempting to Debunk the “Ghost Radar” APP, they read off the list of words, and I believe they metioned one of the words being either, “wash” or “dirty”…well perhaps, that could be interpreted as a message telling them to clean up that filthy house they recorded that video in. It wa totally inappropriate of them to make an offensive comment, joking about the words meaning something about a “dirty Eropean from England”. So we’re getting a critque about “GR”, from, illiterate, dirtballs, that are tactlessly disrespectful toward Europeans, and stupid enough to record it all on youtube, for all to see. How do they expect us to take them and their debunking of “GR” seriously? Makes ya wonder how such a bunch could have the taste for the music that was playing in the background? (Which by the way, I agree… was the only aspect of the video worth the viewing time.)
I my self am still exploring the “GR” App, on my G1. I will say that I’ve had several experiences that just seemed to be more than coincidences. First one: I’m in a very bad marriage that I’m trying to escape, and I neede to have one of my “many important talks” w/my husband, I had the app running on my night stand and just as he came in the room, the word “prepare”, then “for”, and then “cry”. Well when we were talking I had to ask him about a strange number that kept calling his cell. He would answer it infront of me and act strange each time the calls would come in. Claiming it was a wrong number each time, but answering real fake, like he was talking in code to inform the person, that they couldn’t talk. So, I kept asking, he kept denying and lying, then suddenly the words “look” and then “deeper” came up on the “GR”. So I asked him to let me hold the phone, and I called the number myself. And sure enough, some girl answered…”Hey Babe. What took you so long?” Can you say…Busted!? He grabbed the phone and still had the nerve to claim it was a wrong #. He told the girl, “I’m sorry I believe you been calling the wrong#” And of course, the girl wemt along w/it. But it was obvious. She clearly knew the incoming # on her phone, when I called. And no one calls the same # so many times if it were a “wrong #”. To bad she didn’t say, “Hey JR, what took tou so long”. I’d liked to see how he would explain his name being mentioned…lol. anyways, I was very upset and crying, just as the “GR” had said through the words, just before I confronted my husband. Now here’s the kicker…. After my husband left the room, the app was still running on my night table, and I was lying down still very upset… and the word “Hickory” popped up. W/a Capital H. So about 30 minutes later, after I composed myself, I decided to put the girl’s number in my “Reverse Call App”, to find out her name. Well, it was a landline #, so I was lucky enough to get the max info. And when it pulled up the info, the Address that the # was listed to was, 1516 “Hickory” Rd. If that’s not more than a coincidence I don’t know what is! I have found no evidence that this App, is fraudulant in any way. And we all know that our living bodies are full of electro nergy (that’s why resussitation is used by electro shock), and most people who study and believe in paranormal activity believe that spiritual communication is mannipulated, discovered, captured and sometimes recorded via electricity, elctronics, white noise, and anything that is fueled by energy. Spiritual energy that cannot be seen with the naked eye, is often picked up on camera equiptment, (video or still shots), and sounds that travel on frequencies that may not be heard by ear, are often picked up through any average audio equiptment, such as tv, microphone reverb, stereos, any white noise, etc. And that’s just your run of the mill electronics, not to mention devices created for the purpose of detecting. Because if the energy if intelligent enough, it can mannipulate and communicate through any electrical device, or means of energy source. Therefore, I believe that cell phones are certainly no exception. Wheather there’s an app to enhance the detection or not. So there is logic behind how the app funtions. I Just think about the app “GR”, as a tool that has tweeked the device/phone to help us identify and become aware of, what’s already happening within the energy around us and the area of the device/phone, by using the already existing frequencies, electricity and energy of the device. It’s logical, probable and makes sense. So with that being said, along w/my own personal experiences so far. I am a fan of the “Ghost Radar”, and hope to make some more discoveries, and posible validations of the spiritual world.
This is a fantastic comment! Thank you so much for the detail you put into this. I really enjoyed reading the highly specific information about what it was telling you when your husband was there. Those are fascinating results. It’s very much like what a Frank’s Box or an Ovilus should do and here you have it in an app that took no time to assemble, nor cost much cash like many devices do. A colleague of mine recently bought the Ghost Radar app. I’ll have to have him read your comment. He hasn’t really used GR yet because he said he wanted to save it for use on an investigation. Obviously, it has some more immediate practical applications!
i had ghost radar running just before and the word stove popped up. my boyfriend and i had been cooking about an hour before and i looked over at him and jokingly asked “did you turn the stove off?” he got up and went to the kitchen and guess what? it was on
I got this application tonight and already it is quite fascinating! I live on an army base, my husband is active duty and this is what words it came up with with just ONE dot on the radar constantly hovering around over a period of an hour or so:
nervous activivity help buried fell happened compass younger transportation occur add war attack wonderful individual brave older
My husband lost one of his dear friends, a sergeant in Iraq. While I realize this just may be a game it’s nonetheless spooky!
My wife and I both have had many experiences prior to our meeting each other. I’ve lived in some very old plantation type buildings that were very old and she has lived next to a civil war burial ground to give some examples. We both understand that Paranormal activity doesn’t always mean, “creepy”. Anyway, we’ve had several encounters in our current house, which is older in its own right. I’ve been poked several times as have my wife. On one occasion I was alone as I was poked. I asked to be poked again if they could and was immediately poked. I asked if they liked having us there please poke twice, and was poked twice. Most of the time there is nothing. We noticed activity picked up around the holidays. We store our Christmas decorations in an attic area and that is the only time we go in there. I reasoned that this may have stirred them so I now tell them I am just there to get/store the decorations and will be leaving soon. That seems to help keep the activity down.
Recently, the activity has hightened. We have a dog that is reaching the end of her life and my wife was laying with her. The air got very cold on her back is a prime example. We thought maybe one of the entities (There seems to be two as the interactions usually follow two types) was feeling for our dog.
Then something brand new started happening and we think it may be the other entity. I had my droid plugged in while I slept. I suddenly got very very cold (very unlike me) and the phone display started coming on, then saying the attempt to unlock the screen failed (I have a lock pattern on the display). I would shut the display off but it kept coming back on. I then turned the phone completely off. Several minutes later, the phone powered back on all on it’s own. I then knew I was getting “messed with”. The next thing I know, my phone is past the unlock code and had dialed two numbers. I picked up the phone to see a third number dialed. the numbers were 899 which is the common numbers for a medical area in town, which is also the same number as my wifes work. At first I was a little ticked, but then I thought maybe they were trying to tell me something so I got up and checked the animals and looked out all the windows. I didn’t find anything out of the ordinary, but the phone things stopped at that point. We recently had to remove two very old trees and I think this has one of the entities a little more restless than usual.
Anyway, I told my wife the next day and she found this app. She downloaded it and we’ve had some unexplained patterns but we’ve also had several very eplainable ones as well. One, for example, was yesterday. I worked very hard to rebuild the back yard after the tree removal. When I came in for a drink of water, her phone said “effort”, “water” and “straw”. I could look out the window from where I stood and could easily see the straw I planned to lay down over the grass seeds. We had not talked about the straw around her phone and there was nothing that I know of that could, “hint” the phone app of the straw. Several of the patterns do not make sense to us, but that does not mean they are accurate/Paranormal or even meant for us. We plan to see if more patterns happen, but more so at night when things are quiet and calm. We get activity more so in the day light, but it seems that the app will work better during the calm of the night.
It seems to me that all its doing is leaving random words, and of all the people who use this app, at some point along the line are going to relate a specific word back to something they have either just done or thought about, its nothing impressive, I mean I may have just been in the garden watering the plants and I may come in and turn my ghost radar on and within a couple of minutes I may get the word water………..SO WHAT!!