I have always been interested in the paranormal and especially those who have stories of encountering the unknown. I did enjoy reading this but at times I found I lost interest and at other times it seemed a bit advertised. Other than that, I did enjoy reading the various stories about the author's experiences with the Ghost Box.

I love books involving the paranormal. I really love books that are more investigation then story. This book is about the investigations of Chris Moon and his Ghost box. The Ghost Box is basically a radio that picks up voices through white noise.

Chris Moon takes us along on his past investigations where he uses not only the box but his own intuitive skills. He listens to his feelings, thought, and the ghost box.

The places he has investigated and the EVP's he picks up are astonishing. I really enjoyed this book and would love to go along with Chris on his investigations and see the ghost box in action.

I received this book from the Author or Publisher via Netgalley.com to read and review.

I really enjoyed learning about The Ghost Box and The Moon family. There are some interesting stories in historically haunted locations. I would like to read more by this mother, son duo!

Ghost Box is Chris Moon's collection of paranormal investigations that he has conducted using electronic voice phenomena (EVP) and his own intuitive skills.

There is little to no science presented in this book so if you're interested in the tech-side of paranormal investigation, you'll have to keep looking.

Readers who want concrete information about the afterlife may grow a tad frustrated with this book. The majority of Moon's investigations are conducted through feelings and feedback from the people he's interacting with.

That's not to say that he doesn't have some solid hits. Occasionally, the information that he receives through his "ghost box" is absolutely spot on. It gave me the chills.

I watched a documentary once about Mario Bacci, an Italian man who has been receiving other worldly voices through an old radio for years. He has a group of devoted followers that gathers around him to hear his sessions with his own "ghost box". They claim to hear their deceased family members through Bacci's radio.

That documentary convinced me that this phenomena is real because of how the people reacted when they heard the noises coming through the radio.

Moon had his doubts at first too. When he first receives the box, he doesn't think it will work. But, through using it and the evidence it provides, he becomes convinced that it is the real deal too.

"The machine facilitates real-time two-way communication with the spirit world and, as soon as my dad and I experienced it in action, we knew it would revolutionize the paranormal investigation field." loc 95, ebook.

He receives this machine from Frank Sumption- an electrical tech who claims to have completed Thomas Edison's 'Telephone to the Dead.'

I didn't even know that was a thing. "Apparently, Edison's mother was a Spiritualist and he was very close to her. After her death, Edison started to re-examine his views on the afterlife. He realized that since energy could neither be created nor destroyed and that it could only change form, we humans (being energy) had to go somewhere." loc 224. Fascinating.

The rest of the book, including aliens speaking through the ghost box and sightings of shadow people, I didn't connect with as much. But, if you're interested in that type of information, Moon's book might be something that you'd really enjoy.

Thank you to NetGalley and Llewellyn Publications for a free digital copy of this book. Reminder: the brief quotations that I pulled for this review may change in the final printed version.

Truly a fascinating read through and through. Once I started reading I had trouble putting it down!

This is the authors' relation of their experiments with a 'ghost box', literally a box that works like a radio transmitter to pick up the voices of ghosts. Spooky! But that's what attracted me to the book.

It requires a big leap of faith. Apparently much of the activity happens on a psychic level so you're basically taking the word of the author that anything was heard at all, although some recordings apparently produced voices. Putting belief aside, I found the book interesting. The incidents mentioned in relation to a few high profile historic deaths made for good reading, scepticism or not.

I did find the suggestion that the box picks up alien voices as well a stretch. It started ticking too many woowoo boxes at that point and I found it more difficult to suspend disbelief. I keep an open mind about spiritual activity, but this pushed it a little too far for me and I found myself reading with more scepticism after that part.

Despite this, some of the stories related towards the end appeared to be corroborated by real world evidence, if you take the author's word for it. I decided that belief is subjective and on the bottom line, I enjoyed reading the book. It was well written and provided some interesting food for thought. Would I try the spirit box if given a chance? Definitely. Like some of the other sceptical people who came into contact with the authors, I would ask questions that only the person I was contacting would know, but I would not hesitate to give it a go and see what happened.

The only thing missing was any information whatsoever about how it supposedly works. Maybe the authors will include that in their next book.

Great read. Gets you hooked from the start. Would highly recommend!!

I did not enjoy this as much as I thought I might. Being a ghost Hunter myself with various devices, Echovox and other spirit Boxes I know how it works and have had some contact myself, I don't agree with a lot of what was in this book and seems to be a unbareable arrogant tone to the book too, so yes not for me.

I can't imagine who would be interested in this book or one like it but I guess there are folks out there who are Out There enough. It's about an invention, a box with knobs and wires that is supposed to bring in voices from Beyond. Now, I'll give anything a chance but when there are no explanations and no verifications I'm only going to hang out so long. So the author tells lots of stories about the deceased guy who made it and the adventures he's had with it and his dad. So when does it go on TV? I'd watch it. But a blabby recounting of this michigos in print doesn't cut it. Sorry but I couldn't wait to put this one down.

I enjoy nonfiction ghost stories and was excited to learn more about this Ghost Box. The book starts off on the right foot, exciting stories and descriptions of these new tool but it quickly looses itself in sensationalism and commercialism.
When an inventor finally brings Thomas Eddison's Telephone to the Dead to life, paranormal investigator Chris Moon uses this new tool to communicate in real time with the spirits. He investigates haunted houses across the US and does readings for bereaved parents (for a fee).The Ghost Box gives investigators a new tool for their research.
This is the book's main flaw. It reads nothing like research. The author assumes readers already now spirit orbs and ectoplasm and doesn't explain the evidence of research he finds at his locations. New readers must take his word at face value and probably confused. Despite the plethora of evidence he claims to have, only one story includes photos or physical representation of this research. The one area that the author did well was showing us the many different models of the Ghost Box and how it evolved through out years of use.
The first few chapters bring in you in and most of these chapters are quite believable. It's when the reader gets to the end of the Lizzie Borden chapter that the tales become questionable. The chapter ends with a Ghost Box session that makes a dark accusation but gives no clear exploitation about what happened from the house.
From there my skepticism grew. While I want to believe and believe that people have truly had paranormal experiences, these stories of Moon's adventures left a bad taste in my mom. As the book progresses the stories progress they get more and more sensational each story trying to out do the last. I lost interest as the author boats about the number of tickets sales and having to add to more night to his presentations and rolled my eyes when he claims to have solved the mystery of a presidential assignation. But that assassination isn't the only conspiracy the author has become involved in; he happens to have spoken to alien spirits and claims that these communications are being hindered by an outside source.
Without specific evidence and the manner in which the book is written it's hard to believe most of Moon's tales. While I truly believe he and his mother have had experiences with the paranormal, I am inclined to believe this book wasn't intended as an actual representation of paranormal investigation and more a way to earn revenue and get his name out. I do look forward to seeing what stories and evidence he presents in the many upcoming books he discusses with in this one.

This book has fascinating premise, Edison's "ghostbox," allowing users to speak to the dead, but the writing is amateurish and misses many opportunities to draw the reader in. If you buy the premise of speaking to the dead, and you visit the Lizzie Borden house, wouldn't the most salient question be: Did you kill your parents? Or did Lizzie really kill you? Neither question is answered. Again and again, tantalizing situations are presented, only to become ho hum as they unfold because of lack of detail or answers to obvious questions. A professional writer and editing would probably have helped here.
Full Disclosure--Net Gallery and the publisher provided me with a digital ARC of this book. This is my honest review.

not mine cup of tea, it was ok maybe will try again