The Ovilus

cayen · Mist Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 65

I'm a little behind the times but the handheld version of the paranormal puck had released. Simply called 'The Ovilus' I was wondering what people thought of it?

I'm probably going to pick it up and try it out around here and see what I can see.

AbbeyGal · Mist Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 118

I have one.

For people who don't know what we're talking about, it is basically the next generation in ghost boxes. Instead of relying on radio waves to produce the speech sounds, it uses computerized speech segments in either full word or phoneme format.

Thanks to some other commitments on my time, I've only spent maybe an hour off and on using it so far. That's not including a recording session at the museum house where I plugged it into my recorder and let it run for a few hours. I think I accidentally pulled the connection to the recorder out, so I haven't rushed to listen to the recording of that yet. Offhand, I'm finding it harder to use than the ghostbox. However, I think that might just be a learning curve problem.

On my end, I'm having trouble making out what some of the computerized speech words are. And this is coming from a woman with a degree in Linguistics with some graduate level work in computerized speech analysis.

Here are some samples, so you can hear what I mean. The dictionary mode uses a vocabulary of 512 words. The phonetic mode uses 72 phonemes (the sounds in speech that are combined to form words). The combination mode uses all 512 full words and 72 phonemes. Each begins with the box announcing which mode it's in. In some cases, if I didn't know that already, I would have had no clue as to what it was saying.

http://www.ghosttalkers.org/Ovilus%20dictionary%20mode.mp3

http://www.ghosttalkers.org/Ovilus%20phonetic%20mode.mp3

http://www.ghosttalkers.org/Ovilus%20combination%20mode.mp3

I will have to contact the inventor, Bill Chappell, to see if I can get the list of words he used for this. That might help me figure out the more mysterious ones. They are supposed to be the most commonly used 512 words in the English language, but online lists of those vary quite a bit.

On Oscar's end, he's trying to figure out how to manipulate it. I did notice that when I made the samples this morning, the phonetic mode started off slowly, then sped up, like he was starting to get the hang of it. When I tired using the phonetic mode yesterday, I barely got anything out of it.

Early on, when using the dictionary mode, the words Remember, Relax, Rest, and Happy kept coming up. Granted, there are only 512 full words loaded into it, but that still seemed more than a little coincidental. I decided to give it one more try before I went to bed. This time, the message was a little more clear: "Remember Me, You, the Light, Happy, Happy". Awwwwwww. If that's not an Oscar message, I don't know what is. Yeah, OK, that would not convince skeptics one iota. However, as soon as it started, I could feel in my gut that it was meant as a message.

Unfortunately, I wasn't recording it at the time, but I'm sure I'll be getting more messages along those lines. I need to get some rechargeable 9 volt batteries! This burns through batteries pretty quick. I'm already on my second one and I've only used it for maybe 4 hours total. If it turns on and says "ready" but doesn't do anything else, it's time for a new battery.

If folks want more information on the Ovilus in general, Bill's site is www.digitaldowsing.com

chris67 · Orb Joined: 04 Jun 2008 Posts: 4

I have been using the Ovilus and have been amazed on some of the responses and words that have come out of it. All pertaining to what I was doing or asking at the time.

I look forward to further research with the device and feel this is a move in the right direction.

-Chris Fleming

cayen · Mist Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 65

I'm doing some tinkering with electronics right now I'm trying to work on a simplified EMF device that can be used for yes/no questions. (Green light for yes, red for no)