Sometimes Smaller is Better –

An ASUP Update on the MiniBox Experiments

Chris Travis  of Texas Spirit Seekers, Julie Davis (ASUP), and Lance Brooks, also from Texas Spirit Seekers,  preparing for a MiniBox Session during the Jefferson Para-Con 2008, at the Urquhart B&B, Jefferson, Texas.  Photo by Paula Carrington, Texas Spirits Research Team.

For the past several months, the ASUP has been involved in the testing of the now famous MiniBox by Paranormal Systems and the group has come to some basic conclusions about this device for others to consider.

First, the MiniBox works best with time. If you do not have two hours to devote to a tst session, you might be disappointed.  You should have the device running in the place you will be using it for at least 15 minutes; during this time you can fine tune settings and volume. Never expect the Box to “Hit the ground running,” so to speak; it happens occasionally, that an operator can turn on the box and get an immediate message, but it hasn’t happened often in the ASUP’s tests.

Second, while the MiniBox has several uses, the largest number of testers have allowed themselves to use the device like an electronic Ouija board. While it can be used as strictly a communications device to the dead or to solicit your fortune, you are underestimating its capacity; akin to building a nuclear generator to power you electric train set in the garage.

Third, if there is one thing we have noticed to date, it is that the MiniBox works best in small groups. Our testing with three or four people seems to yield the best results, while the box seems to become more muted with large groups.  Recently, when used at a well known and much commercialized haunt, the box did poorly, but on the second night, in the same place with only three operators, it worked extremely well.

It also responds poorly to those who openly question its validity. In one session, two self proclaimed skeptics said that they were going to prove that the box did not work; that night, for the first time in our study, the box was totally silent, as if it were not turned on at all. Bewildered, the testing team checked circuit breakers and swapped out boxes, but the second unit failed to work properly too, not a hum or the crackle of static could be heard, never mind the expected scan of broadcast stations… and this was in a major city.

While the study continues and the ASUP has widened the testing to cities throughout the United States through their free MiniBox loaner program to other reputable groups, it is noteworthy that the great majority of users have reported personal experiences of a positive nature.

In one case, a small group of paranormal investigators went to a cemetery before attending a testing session the next day.  One member took a blue flower from a recently opened grave and placed it at her own mother’s stone.  During the session the next evening, she asked the MiniBox if her mother was present, and her mother answered.  She then asked when was the last time she had visited her grave and the Box said, “Yesterday.”  In return the woman asked what she had brought as a gift to the grave, the box answered, “A flower.”  She continued to ask, what color, and the box answered “Blue.”  The researcher was shocked and went to get up… then the box added, “And where did you get it from?”

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