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I was wondering if anyone has tried this.

We have a local science center...well it just closed down due to lack of funds but anyway.

One of the things they had was two satelite dishes set up in different parts of a large room facing each other. One person could stand and talk into the dish on one side of the room and another person could stand at the other one and hear what they were saying. I found that if you stood between the the dishes in the middle of the room you could also hear what was being said.

The idea I have is to set up (first have to acquire them) dishes in my haunt so people would have to walk between them. Have a speaker at one of them playing whispering voices or something like that. Anyone that would walk through the "beam" would hear the voices out of no where.

Has anyone tried anything like that?

No, but it sounds really cool. Our local petting zoo has one of those things mounted above you. You walk under it and all of a sudden you hear narration. That was freaky and surprising!

Wow that is an awesome idea! I've never heard of it before were they satellite dishes? Or something you can build yourself? Keep us up to date if you decide to try this and let us know how it works!

Originally Posted by CalgEerie

Wow that is an awesome idea! I've never heard of it before were they satellite dishes? Or something you can build yourself? Keep us up to date if you decide to try this and let us know how it works!

I believe they were old satelite dishes. The were about six foot high. Being that they had connections with the Army Signal Corp who was a sponsor of the program I am sure they were able to pick theirs up easily.

I'm gonna keep my eye out for one or two of them and see if I can get them cheap or free Most people around here now have the little dishes on their houses and I havnt seen many of the big ones around anymore.

Originally Posted by Johnson724

I believe they were old satelite dishes. The were about six foot high. Being that they had connections with the Army Signal Corp who was a sponsor of the program I am sure they were able to pick theirs up easily.

I'm gonna keep my eye out for one or two of them and see if I can get them cheap or free Most people around here now have the little dishes on their houses and I havnt seen many of the big ones around anymore.

Wow I hope you can do it with the smaller dishes 6' seems a little excessive for any kind of a home haunt. I should go pay my father in law a visit, I think he's got about 5 standard dishes just sitting around that I could play with.

I've seen this same thing set up at other science museums. I think you need really big dishes for it to work.

However, there's something similar that might work just as well...in some home electronics departments they have a small dome with a speaker in hanging overhead. The store is noisy so you walk up to a TV and suddenly you head what's playing on it, because the sound is directed downward at you. It should be easy to make something similar and then hide it overhead so you hear the voices as you walk under it.