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Why did 2 of history's most famous scientists think that talking to ghosts was even possible?

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Nikola Tesla invented a device that allowed the dead to communicate with the spirit world.

Thomas Edison was skeptical the paranormal, and when he learned Tesla was building a radio to listen to spirits, he dismissed them.

But then Tesla started grabbing headlines and patents, so he got to work on his own machine.

He called it the Ghost phone.

But nobody really knows what happened to the research.

Late one night , about 20 years before Edison 's ghost phone demo, Nikola Tesla was in his lab building a radio, and he started hearing sounds that frightened him.

Tesla was picking up these sounds literally from thin air.

He felt that if he can just find the right frequency, he could create a radio to listen to these disembodied spirits.

It was affecting everyone, but when you lose a child or a parent or a brother, sister, a best friend, that pain never really heals.

Regardless of whether you believe in ghosts or not, it doesn't really matter.

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