Robert Bess’s Parabot Containment Chamber

The other day I wrote an entry about how it may be possible to use the general idea from an old Outer Limits episode to create a contained system that would make it possible to provide an environment conducive to paranormal activity.  You thought I was joking, right?

It seems that several other people are thinking the exact same thing. I didn’t even realize it but a man named Robert Bess has designed what he calls a “Parabot Containment Chamber” in order to capture spirits. This sounds a lot like the contraption called the “Cube” which was featured in the remake of the movie Thirteen Ghosts (photo below).

The Cube from the movie Thirteen Ghosts

Robert Bess’s Parabot got a field test last night when the Ghost Adventures crew investigated the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. Bess’s contraption sputtered and made a lot of noise as it appeared to attract spirits with it’s  built-in Tesla Coil.  According to Bess,  this is how the system is designed to work:

“If the EM sensors on the chamber detect an energy field, its doors open, and it moves in the direction of what it senses. Once it captures the energy in the chamber, the doors will shut and the massive 8-foot Tesla coil inside the unit produces 1.4 million watts of energy, “feeding” the EM field until it cycles at a far faster or higher rate, rendering the spirit visible.”

So in other words, it’s a ghost trap designed to capture spirits just like the Cube device in the Thirteen Ghosts movie.

Bess’s Parabot did seem to be doing SOMETHING last night. One of the investigators captured photos of what appeared to be  a ball of plasma. This would make sense, since the Parabot is cranking so much energy into the environment. A plasma is a gas that has been energized to the point that some of the electrons break free from, but travel with, their nucleus. Gases can become plasmas in several ways, but all include pumping the gas with energy.

There were some dramatic moments in last night’s investigation, like when Bess claimed to have been punched or pushed. In one highly suspicious moment his EMF meter flew down the hallway as if it was knocked violently from his hand.

If the Parabot was indeed drawing in spirits, it didn’t seem to be doing a very good job of containing them. Maybe he should have lined the walls of the Parabot with a bunch of “containment spells” like those written on the cube from Thirteen Ghosts.

Anyway, these ideas tie in with what I had in mind, but my idea was not to contain anything. I don’t think it’s ethical to try to capture someone’s spirit, any more than it is ethical to hold a live person against their will.  What I had in mind would be more of an open system through which spirits could manifest, without constraints.

I guess if things went wrong though and you happened to attract a particularly nasty entity, you would wish you had a real containment chamber.  Something like the guys had in the Ghost Busters movies. Seriously though, I think it is possible to build some kind of system that would make it easier for spirits to manifest. Providing a ripe environment by providing them with lots of whatever kind of energy they need, may lead to some real advances in the field of paranormal research.

In the very first episode of the popular science fiction TV program The Outer Limits, a radio station engineer has built a phone booth sized machine in order to communicate with a being from another galaxy. They don’t go into a lot of details about the workings of this fictional machine, but it seems to be based on the idea that three dimensional radio waves (in the frequency of TV signals) can be manipulated and tuned in order to provide an interface through which the “galaxy being” and the radio operator on Earth can communicate.

There are a lot of flaws in this idea, but the idea has stuck with me over the years. I am beginning to think that this general technique could be refined and used as a way to communicate with ghosts, or spirits if you prefer the term.

Most paranormal researchers agree that if ghosts exist, they exist as some type of energy, an intelligent energy that can somehow move in and out of our range of perception. We pick up tiny fragments of conversation with EVP recording techniques, but what if we could finally find a way to hold real conversations with people on the other side? Instead of seeing brief shadowy apparitions, what if we could provide an artificial portal through which spirits could be seen clearly or even travel?

Several researchers are working on the assumption that if you pump a large amount of energy into a room, it charges the atmosphere and makes the environment conducive for paranormal activity. In recent episodes of the TV programs Extreme Paranormal and Ghost Lab, we have seen people use a Jacob’s Ladder and a Van De Graaff Generator to pump energy into the environment. Joshua P. Warren has long proposed that using an electrostatic generator to fill a room with charged ions, like the Ghost Lab crew did with their Van De Graaff Generator, would enhance paranormal activity. Actually helping a spirit to materialize.

I don’t think these activities are taking it far enough. The radio engineer from The Outer Limits may have been onto something. I think that if we create the right environment, it may be possible to finally communicate in a better way with entities in the “paranormal” world. I don’t think that setting up a Phone Booth Spirit Communicator Contraption in a scientific lab would be helpful, but if we could set up an apparatus like this in a location we believe to be haunted, maybe we would get some interesting results.

This is an artifact I found on a sandbar in the middle of the Great Miami River, near Cincinnati, Ohio.  I think it may be a pendant or amulet of some kind from the time of the Adena culture, which would mean it could  be 2,000 years old! I cranked up the contrast on this photo to try to reveal some surface details.

You can’t really tell from the photo, but there are a few engraved gooves on each side of the object. The hole was obviously drilled by a flint or stone drill.   I plan to take this somewhere soon to get an expert opinion, but it really does seem like it was created to be a pendant.  One of the bottom corners is broken, but you can still tell it must have been carefully crafted.   It is almost exactly 1 1/2 inches long and 1 inch in width.

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Yesterday I traveled up to Chillicothe, Ohio to explore the group of Hopewell mounds called the Mound City Group. It is a 13-acre site surrounded by an earthen wall, with 22 mounds inside the enclosure. I have been trying to investigate ancient mounds and earthworks to see if I can detect any paranormal energy or abnormal electromagnetic properties of any kind. I don’t really have the equipment I need for a thorough examination, but I have been using my EMF meter, compass, and other devices. I even tried using a pendulum to dowse around the site.

My stone pendulum

This would work better if I knew exactly what it was I was dowsing for, but I thought I would give it a try with the intention of finding human remains or artifacts of any kind. I didn’t get much of a reaction from my pendulum, but that could be because I am new at this and need a lot more practice. OR it could mean that the mounds are now completely empty. That’s another possibility.