Tools

A lettered board with a sliding pointer that ghost hunters and others use to put questions to spirits.

A handheld meter that ghost hunters carry to look for changes in electromagnetic fields that they link to spirits.

Voices that ghost hunters say they pick up on audio recordings and take to be messages from the dead.

A modified radio, also called a ghost box, that ghost hunters use to try to hold live conversations with spirits.

A practice, covering EVP and several kinds of device, in which people try to receive messages from the dead through electronic equipment.

A handheld device that speaks words from a stored list, which ghost hunters treat as messages from spirits.

Ghost hunters use instant cameras such as Polaroids to get a physical print on the spot as evidence.

A repurposed Xbox Kinect that ghost hunters connect to a screen to look for human shapes where nobody is standing.

Ghost hunters use cameras modified to record infrared and ultraviolet light as well as visible light, to look for spirits outside the range of human sight.