Several of my colleagues are convinced that the building we work in is haunted, and can reel off a list of everyday natural occurrences they interpret as "weird", despite my attempts to show that every one of them can be explained without recourse to the supernatural..
Now, as it turns out, one colleague is an absolute ghost-nut and owns several ghost-hunting devices including an EMF meter. I know nothing at all about electronics; so what I'm wondering is would it be possible to construct a small device, ideally very simple and without soldering, which I could then hide in the part of the building they think is haunted so that the EMF meter gives a high reading and later retrieve so I can show them it was fake?
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When I was 7 or 8, a friend and I noticed cars passing an abandoned house in the neighborhood produced an effect like to glowing red eyes in a window. So we created a whole mythology about it being a dead hobo who died on the nearby railroad tracks who was trapped forever in the house. The glowing eyes was our proof. The kids believed us. That's how religions are created folks! Getting people to believe in things that don't exist...LOL
jeffy
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May 23, 2018
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The meters detect fluxuations in the electromagnetic fields, which can be generated by electrical appliances, lighting fixtures, and wiring. You could take a lantern battery and make a small electromagnetic (wrapping a coil of wire around an iron nail). Then hide it somewhere that they think there is “supernatural” activity. It would certainly set off their equipment!
ChuckStraub
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May 22, 2018
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The mind is a strange place, thier are things we don’t understand... science will get to it but till then they will call it supernatural, or it could be a mouse in the wall?
ArdentAtheist
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May 22, 2018
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No no!!!
Wrong approach! Do everything you can think if to perpetuate this! The EMF emitter is a great start!
bigpawbullets
Level 9
May 22, 2018
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Good question Someone knows . Let them answer.
Beamdump2020
Level 4
May 22, 2018
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A mobile phone would suffice.
Put on silent, hide it, then call it. That is EMF through the roof.
Otherwise, any old electrical magnet would do but would need rigging with a remote.
Also a cheap bluetooth speaker with low frequency sound played at random (sparingly) while they "Ghost hunt".
Might as well go the whole way and get some pig blood from the butchers, put in a little container with an iceblock for a stopper in a tiny hole in the bottom and hide it somewhere in the rafters... the possibilities are endless.
Joerg
Level 3
May 22, 2018
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Years back I managed a small group in a large warehouse, can appear spooky. One employee was a little skittish about the place, lots of shadowy corners where an active imagination can see whatever the brain generates. Think we were discussing the Poltergeist movie and I told him the warehouse was built on Indian burial grounds. He kept his eye out for ghosts but never did see anything but shadows and why would he. Maybe you can just use some subtle suggestions to help them along.
Mark013
Level 7
May 22, 2018
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Jnei:
I've tried that angle too, but they're not convinced there are any Indian burial grounds here in rural Cambridgeshire.
I wouldn't mess with the adjustable power supply, just hook up a battery.
Nottheonlyone
Level 7
May 22, 2018
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Jnei:
That's exactly the sort of thing I'm thinking of - something with a battery for simplicity, and because I'd probably kill myself and burn down the village if I started messing with adjustable power supplies!
@Jnei Hope it works out for you!
Jnei:
@Nottheonlyone Of course, there's always the possibility that the ghost might find it and disconnect the battery 
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