Explination Of Stray Radio Signal In Box communication A ghost box operates by receiving a radio broadcast on either the AM or FM band in turn it sweeps the radio dial from beginning to end and back again continuously and fast enough so that it breaks down the words, phrases and sentences of speech in the radio signal into small unintelligible bits of sound, these bits of sound I theorize Are used by communicating entities by being lets say “Glued” together to form words, phrases and sentences of communication capable of answering our questions and sending messages. In a perfect scenario a box would sweep through a whole session without picking up any amount of stray radio broadcast, but we all know that these boxes are far from perfect! The way to recognize "Stary Radio Signal" is to be aware of whole words, sentences and or phrases that escape the box sweep and are not broken down by it. These Stray radio signals will be recognisable by being distinctively familiar as normal physical human speech. Physical human speech has a very distinctive sound it is uniformed and tonally the same in it's make up. It utilizes set tones and patterns of harmonic sound. What I meant by "Uniformed and Tonally the same" is that when we hear words come from the box that are spoken in the exact fluid tone and are uniformed in their delivery as you would hear normal spoken physical speech you can pretty much mark it down as stray broadcast. When we hear communication as an almost lets say patch work of syllables that form the words from different fragments of sound, they can differ in volume, speed and even be made up of male and female voices within one word or phrase, this is what allows us to determine basically what is communication and what is radio signal. A box will only pick up whatever signal it receives and sweep the dial at a certain rate whether it be random or linear. The signal being constantly in flux do to changing conditions will allow for certain broadcast signals to serge in strength say for instance 1160 on the AM dial gets a sudden burst of extra energy allowing the signal to increase in strength by 50% this will in turn deliver the stronger signal to the receiver of the box and may carry over the previous and the following stations on the band. For example you will get the single signal over 1150 1160 1170 at the same time instaed of just 1160 alone. This will sometimes give you the same signal over three stations as apposed to one, hence creating a lingering signal for triple the amount of time it normaly would have been and this will cause the boxes to spit out a word or two of solid broadcast words. I hope this explains how receiving the stray signal and mistaking it for communication can happen. Bruce Halliday