Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural—Peter Bebergal (New York, NY, USA: Penguin Random House, 2022, 256 pp.)

IF 2.1 4区工程技术 Q3 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI:10.1109/MTS.2023.3329898

A. David Wunsch

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For over 40 years, starting in 1954, Popular Electronics Magazine was the major American publication for electrical hobbyists. The last years of the magazine saw it renamed Computers and Electronics. This is an unremarkable history but, as explained by Peter Bebergal about 3/4th of the way through his fascinating book Strange Frequencies, there is an issue from October 1995 that proposes experiments that deviate from the magazine’s usual gadgetry. The magazine is easily read at this website https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/90s/95/PE-1995-10.pdf . The cover features a middle-aged man hunched over a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Behind him, he is haunted by a trio of faded ghost-like figures. The cover story is captioned, “Ghost voices: Are the dead trying to contact us through electronic means? Try these experiments and see for yourself” The article begins with a discussion of two electronic voice phenomena (EVP) experimenters of the 1950s: Frederich Jurgenson and Konstantin Raudive who claimed that with electronics they have communicated with the dead and that they have recordings of those voices preserved on tape. During his lifetime, Raudive asserted that he captured about 70,000 such communications.

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奇怪的频率：超自然技术探索的非凡故事--彼得-贝贝格尔》（美国纽约：企鹅兰登书屋，2022 年，256 页）。

从 1954 年开始的 40 多年里，《大众电子》杂志一直是美国电子爱好者的主要刊物。该杂志在最后几年更名为《计算机与电子》。这段历史并不起眼，但正如彼得-贝贝格尔（Peter Bebergal）在其引人入胜的《奇异频率》（Strange Frequencies）一书的四分之三处所解释的那样，1995 年 10 月的一期杂志提出了与杂志通常的小玩意儿不同的实验。该杂志可在 https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/90s/95/PE-1995-10.pdf 网站上轻松阅读。封面人物是一位中年男子，他蜷缩在一台磁带录音机前。在他的身后，有三个褪色的幽灵般的人物在萦绕着他。封面故事的标题是 "鬼魂的声音"：死者是否试图通过电子手段与我们联系？试试这些实验，你就知道了。"文章首先讨论了 20 世纪 50 年代的两位电子声音现象（EVP）实验者：弗雷德里克-尤尔根森和康斯坦丁-劳迪夫声称，他们用电子设备与死者进行了交流，并将这些声音录制在磁带上。劳迪夫声称，他一生中捕捉到了大约 7 万次这样的交流。

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3.00

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