Got my first spirit box yesterday - did a session at Borley Rectory ruins. Results are... interesting?

I picked up a Spirit Box Pro (the one that's about £120 on Amazon) yesterday and immediately drove to Borley to test it. For those who don't know, Borley Rectory in Suffolk is supposedly the most haunted building in Britain - though the rectory itself burned down in the 1930s, the ruins still apparently have activity.

I spent about ninety minutes there around 7 PM, and something is generating responses on this device. Whether that's genuine spirit communication, my own expectations, environmental interference, or complete nonsense - I genuinely can't say yet. I got clear responses to specific questions, though they were short (one or two words max) and sometimes ambiguous.

Key question: has anyone else used the Spirit Box Pro and had success? I'm trying to figure out whether this is a legitimate investigative tool or a glorified radio that's primed to generate pareidolia. The instruction manual is useless - just generic warnings and no actual methodology guidance.

Would love to hear from experienced EVP folks here. Is this tool worth pursuing, or should I invest in actual audio recorders and do traditional EVP sessions instead?

Spirit boxes are controversial even within the paranormal community. The issue is that they're essentially rapidly scanning AM/FM frequencies, and what you're 'hearing' is fragments of actual broadcasts arranged by your brain into meaningful patterns (pareidolia). That said, some researchers argue the speed and context-appropriateness of responses suggests something more is happening. Your experience sounds genuinely interesting.

Borley's a fascinating location for this. If any site has genuinely residual energy, it'd be Borley. But you've got to be rigorous: record your sessions, document questions and timestamps, analyse the recordings later with fresh ears. Real EVP work is tedious, but it's the only way to rule out coincidence.

I've done loads of EVP work and never got results that convinced me beyond doubt. I'm skeptical of spirit boxes specifically because the mechanism is so mechanistic - literally broadcast fragments jumbled together. Audio recorders and proper microphones feel more trustworthy, even if the methodology is more demanding.

Whether that's genuine spirit communication, my own expectations, environmental interference, or complete nonsense - I genuinely can't say yet.

Borley Rectory is brilliant for investigation because the historical records are so extensive - you might be able to cross-reference 'spirit' responses with actual documented events from the rectory's history. If the box starts naming people or details that weren't publicly known, that'd be genuinely compelling.