This is a photo of the Spiricom apparatus (Spiricom data page). The image is also a link to a 1980 video showing one of Bill O'Neil's conversations with 'Doc Mueller.'
One of the breakthrough video recordings of Bill O'Neil conversing with Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC) entity 'Doc Mueller' now may be seen and heard without charge on You Tube. (link) The Tape was made for George W. Meek (1910-1999) of the Metascience Foundation paranormal research organization. O'Neil is seen referring to Meek as "our friend" in the video. Also available online are some Spiricom recordings audio clips/transcript excerpts. In Excerpt 18, Doc Mueller is heard to say: "Now you must understand one thing, William. I cannot be here forever. I cannot guarantee how long I can be visiting . . ."
The circumstances of this evidence is described in The Ghost of 29 Megacycles (1985), a book by John G. Fuller about the Bill O'Neil/'Doc Mueller'/George Meek ITC collaboration. George Meek prior to retirement was a designer of air conditioning systems for big buildings and later was on the embassy staff of Ambassador Averill Harriman in London. Meek retired to dedicate himself to researching the afterlife.
. . . he had contacted nearly forty professional and technical people over the world who seemed to share his interest. They included physicists, nuclear chemists, biochemists, psychiatrists, and other professionals.
In an experiment with a medium, an apparent contact came through in one of the sessions in which a deceased scientist identified himself through the medium. The purported entity claimed that he wanted to cooperate with some living engineers and technicians to develop an electromagnetic communication system between those living on the earth level and those in the discarnate state where he now existed.
Fuller quoted Meek as having stated that his equipment had gained substantial funding:
"I was lucky enough to get Jim McDonnell, chairman of the board of McDonnell-Douglas, interested in the project," Meek said. "Jim had been interested in psychic research for a long time. In fact, he gave half a million dollars to Washington University in St. Louis to set up a psychic research laboratory. I worked out a deal with him where he would let me go ahead and design and build the equipment. He would pay for it, and then lease it back to me for a dollar a year. It was a lucky break."
Meek's first breakthrough came several years later, in 1977, after he had encountered a rough-hewn, intuitively brilliant medium named Bill O'Neil. An eighth-grade dropout, O'Neil was nevertheless something of an electronic genius, having developed his native abilities ever since his days in the service at Pearl Harbor during World War II. O'Neil lives with his wife on a remote farm in western Pennsylvania. Totally absorbed with his electronics, he was practically a recluse. He could also be, according to Meek, irascible and unpredictable. But he had made what Meek considered a monumental breakthrough. Through his radio equipment, he had apparently established direct two-way communication with the dead.
O'Neil was the best clairaudient and clairvoyant medium he has come across.
". . . he combined mediumship with a remarkable knowledge of electronics."
He became a civilian technician with the United States Navy radar-radio laboratory at Pearl Harbor in 1939. In spite of his lack of formal schooling, he was allowed to enroll in a course of advanced electronics at the University of Hawaii under Navy Department sponsorship. After a spell in the army in the intelligence section of the Twenty-Second Infantry Brigade, he came home and started his own two-way radio communication shop in Media, Pennsylvania.
The list of reported job experiences of O'Neil also included "electronic tube foreman for RCA in Cincinnati," "computer technician in Florida working with telemetry devices used in the rocketry program at Cape Canaveral" and "he hosted a children's program at WKRC-TV in Cincinnati."
George Meek (left) and Bill O'Neil
Meek summarized what he had learned about him: ". . . O'Neil made contact first with a deceased doctor, a former ham radio operator who merely identified himself as 'Doc Nick' . . . he had died five years before, and told Bill how certain audio frequencies could serve as an energy source. When these frequencies were monitored by a tape recorder, voice contact could be made with him [and recorded]. In other words, clairaudient suggestions to Bill helped him modify his ham radio equipment so that the voice of the deceased doctor could actually be heard over the circuit . . ."
Fuller asked Meek what O'Neil did to make a living. "He tinkers around," Meek said. "Repairs radios and TV . . . We pay him a small fee [$60 a week] to keep experimenting. Both he and his wife live very frugally. . . . He's sixty-four . . . he sincerely believes, along with me, that this can be the greatest possible breakthrough for the human race."
Incidents of materialization phenomena were reported by O'Neil to Meek, first sporadically with the ephemeral Doc Nick. Fuller wrote that sometimes Doc Nick would be audible and visible to O'Neil. At other times O'Neil could only hear but not see him. The instruction included the subjects of "the laying on of hands" and electronic devices that could be of benefit to people with arthritis and other disorders. According to O'Neil, Doc Nick had pressed for the use of iron oxide, orally or by injection, for the treatment of cancer. The book recounts that Bill O'Neil had some success facilitating spiritual healing. The evidence for this includes a signed affidavit from a doctor in Connecticut.
The coming of another entity transpired with a materialization incident of 'Doc Mueller' and there was a succession of new technical suggestions given to O'Neil. Fuller wrote:
. . . Mueller prescribed everything from a frequency counter and generator to a stable DC power supply and oscillators.
There was one moment when O'Neil felt the breakthrough was beginning to happen. Behind the loud and rasping sound of the carrier wave, O'Neil heard the faint sound of a voice. There were a few scattered words, but they were not clear, and there was no sign of intelligible dialogue. But words were there.
Spurred by the conviction that he was now on the right track, O'Neil went back to work with renewed energy.
Fuller reported that the first breakthrough tape was recorded on October 27, 1977 as O'Neil was able to record on tape a brief conversation identified to be that of 'Doc Nick' yet the communication sounded like what O'Neil compared to "a robot on television" and only lasted a few minutes. Not every word was intelligible.
There was talk of the frequencies changing, of which frequencies Doc Nick felt more comfortable on, and the importance of O'Neil's marking the frequency changes. Then as quickly as it had started up, the conversation ceased. O'Neil was left with nothing but the background sound of the carrier wave.
O'Neil played it back with his wife also listening. The next morning he mailed the tape to George W. Meek. Fuller reported that there were further letters and telephone calls to Meek as O'Neil continued his work.
The year 1978 began on a tide of optimism for both O'Neil and Meek. Spurred by fresh new equipment supplied by Meek, O'Neil enlarged his laboratory work space and prepared himself for what he called the Big Push. In Florida, Meek and Will Cerney were putting the finishing touches to their Mark IV assembly, much of it based on the advice O'Neil was passing along to them from Pennsylvania. Essentially, it consisted of an audio tone generator, a radio frequency signal generator linked to a transmitting antenna. A few feet away was a Hammarland Super Pro 600 AM receiver and receiving antenna connected to a 5" speaker, with the sounds picked up by a microphone and tape recorder. The operator working the controls could hear any sounds coming from the speaker, and later analyze them on the reel-to-reel tape.
In November of 1979, successfully tape recording the voice of Doc Nick in a prolonged way with the Spiricom project still hadn't been achieved yet O'Neil remained confident that the goal would be accomplished. Fuller wrote:
Fuller then reported that the O'Neils escaped unhurt when a fire occurred at their farmhouse on November 13 at 4:25 a.m. Only the outer shell of the house was saved by the local fire company. "The fire's cause was unknown, but later a local volunteer fireman was apprehended after similar fires struck six other houses in the area. The fireman was charged with arson." O'Neal wrote to Meek that the contents of the house were a total loss and there was no insurance yet he expressed his determination to continue living there. Meek sent a check to give immediate aid, canceled a mortgage loan he had made on the house and began providing a modest monthly check to help O'Neil recover. His wife went to live with her father yet brought Bill food and hot coffee daily as he struggled to make minimum repairs, keeping himself warm with a pot-bellied stove.
O'Neil wrote to Meek on December 15: "I am now working to repair the lab, so I can get on with Spiricom . . . Tomorrow I plan to rewire the lab and this room only in order to have the electricity turned on again. Mueller says he will help me repair the signal generator and frequency counter. According to him that will be all that is necessary except for a tape recorder to record proof of same. I pray that he is correct!"
In reporting the chronology of events, John G. Fuller shared some of his thoughts in response to listening to the Bill O'Neil orations recorded on the audio tapes. Meek had provided the author with a variety of papers and tapes documenting the case. Fuller mentioned that Doc Mueller brought up an intriguing point in an audio tape dated March 23, 1980:
Fuller discovered that Meed had in fact checked the unlisted numbers.
On the night of September 22, 1980, O'Neil achieved another breakthrough recording. He used the multi-frequency audio tone on the Mark IV equipment, as Doc Mueller had suggested. The carrier range frequency was between 29 and 31 MHz. While turning and adjusting the dials, O'Neil distinctly heard a faint but harsh voice so he snapped on the tape recorder. The voice grew louder, plainer. It emerged over the background noise. It was still rasping and had a metallic timbre. "Can you hear me, Williammmmm?" During the conversation that followed, O'Neil commented, "You sound like a robot" and the voice was heard to say, "I'm a friend of yours . . . 'Robot' Mueller." At one point, Mueller scolded O'Neil for smoking cigarettes. Fuller wrote: "O'Neil played back the tape. Mueller seemed satisfied with the results. Then his voice disappeared as abruptly as it had come." O'Neil could only have felt victorious about his objective and mailed the tape recording to George Meek that presented physical evidence of paranormal communication.
Meek sent O'Neil a $3,000 bonus. Case study author John G. Fuller read the transcripts and listened to some of the recordings. He reported about this period of the collaboration:
Fuller reported about the reaction to the case among EVP researchers such as Ernst Senkowski and Hanna Buschbeck during a period that might be described as the dawn of Instrumental Transcommunication exploration. George Meek himself would witness an ITC contact similar to that of Bill O'Neil's. The experimenter was Hans Otto Konig in Germany. Fuller attempted to place the work of Meek in perspective in a concluding chapter of The Ghost of 29 Megacycles.
Examples of ITC researchers' results are available today at WorldITC.org and other websites.
The intricate puzzles that Mueller was suggesting to him in the way of circuitry, frequencies and data seemed to be coming together.
"Full speed ahead on Spiricom," he wrote Meek, outlining the latest developments he had just incorporated in the instruments. The carrier wave tone was greatly improved, the equipment far more sophisticated, and all that was missing was to hear and record Mueller's voice . . .
Fuller then reported that the O'Neils escaped unhurt when a fire occurred at their farmhouse on November 13 at 4:25 a.m. Only the outer shell of the house was saved by the local fire company. "The fire's cause was unknown, but later a local volunteer fireman was apprehended after similar fires struck six other houses in the area. The fireman was charged with arson." O'Neal wrote to Meek that the contents of the house were a total loss and there was no insurance yet he expressed his determination to continue living there. Meek sent a check to give immediate aid, canceled a mortgage loan he had made on the house and began providing a modest monthly check to help O'Neil recover. His wife went to live with her father yet brought Bill food and hot coffee daily as he struggled to make minimum repairs, keeping himself warm with a pot-bellied stove.
O'Neil wrote to Meek on December 15: "I am now working to repair the lab, so I can get on with Spiricom . . . Tomorrow I plan to rewire the lab and this room only in order to have the electricity turned on again. Mueller says he will help me repair the signal generator and frequency counter. According to him that will be all that is necessary except for a tape recorder to record proof of same. I pray that he is correct!"
As part of his reports to Meek, O'Neil attempted recording on tape some of his clairaudient sessions with Mueller. Some would go on for a half hour or more. But all that could be heard on the tape were O'Neil's responses to the apparent comments by Mueller.
In reporting the chronology of events, John G. Fuller shared some of his thoughts in response to listening to the Bill O'Neil orations recorded on the audio tapes. Meek had provided the author with a variety of papers and tapes documenting the case. Fuller mentioned that Doc Mueller brought up an intriguing point in an audio tape dated March 23, 1980:
He reminded O'Neil of the unlisted telephone numbers he had given him earlier. These, he told O'Neil, would provide confirming evidence that what he was saying was valid and real . . .
Mueller must have spoken in a commanding tone to O'Neil, because O'Neil responded: "Sir, I think George Meek should be the one to check these out. He's much more experienced at this sort of thing than I am . . ."
Fuller discovered that Meed had in fact checked the unlisted numbers.
One was for a Rear Admiral Carl Stillman, the other for a Dr. Willard Libby at UCLA. I was amazed to find out that both numbers were correct for the parties Mueller had identified. But I was disappointed to learn that neither of these gentlemen could recall anything at all about Dr. Mueller. Just what Mueller may have had in mind in urging the contact remained a mystery.
On the night of September 22, 1980, O'Neil achieved another breakthrough recording. He used the multi-frequency audio tone on the Mark IV equipment, as Doc Mueller had suggested. The carrier range frequency was between 29 and 31 MHz. While turning and adjusting the dials, O'Neil distinctly heard a faint but harsh voice so he snapped on the tape recorder. The voice grew louder, plainer. It emerged over the background noise. It was still rasping and had a metallic timbre. "Can you hear me, Williammmmm?" During the conversation that followed, O'Neil commented, "You sound like a robot" and the voice was heard to say, "I'm a friend of yours . . . 'Robot' Mueller." At one point, Mueller scolded O'Neil for smoking cigarettes. Fuller wrote: "O'Neil played back the tape. Mueller seemed satisfied with the results. Then his voice disappeared as abruptly as it had come." O'Neil could only have felt victorious about his objective and mailed the tape recording to George Meek that presented physical evidence of paranormal communication.
Meek received the tape, and listened to it in awe. With his engineering proclivity, he got out a stopwatch and clocked the two-way conversation at thirteen minutes, three times the length of the earlier tape of Doc Nick. He listened again, and a third time. There was no question in his mind now. He agreed with O'Neil. This was clear evidence that two planes of existence had made direct, verbal contact, the result of eight years of struggle. He urged O'Neil to keep trying to record further conversations with Mueller.
Meek sent O'Neil a $3,000 bonus. Case study author John G. Fuller read the transcripts and listened to some of the recordings. He reported about this period of the collaboration:
Mueller's apparent voice was recorded and logged in over thirty hours of sessions as he responded to O'Neil's questions. O'Neil shipped the tapes regularly to Meek, who had them transcribed. Then he analyzed them carefully.
Meek recognized the great importance of going beyond this single series of contacts. He would have to find ways to replicate the project with other personnel at other locations.
Fuller reported about the reaction to the case among EVP researchers such as Ernst Senkowski and Hanna Buschbeck during a period that might be described as the dawn of Instrumental Transcommunication exploration. George Meek himself would witness an ITC contact similar to that of Bill O'Neil's. The experimenter was Hans Otto Konig in Germany. Fuller attempted to place the work of Meek in perspective in a concluding chapter of The Ghost of 29 Megacycles.
With Konig's work as confirmation, he intensified his search for more researchers in Europe and the United States who were themselves psychic as well as electronic engineers. By the beginning of 1984, Meek's bloodhound persistence began to bring in substantial grants for his redesigned Metascience Foundation. One organization provided a grant of thirty thousand dollars with the comment: "The spiritual implications of such discoveries are immense, and would contribute greatly to the cultivation of the recognition of individual responsibility in both health and spiritual matters."
Examples of ITC researchers' results are available today at WorldITC.org and other websites.
A back cover blurb on the 1986 Signet paperback edition offers a perspective for the knowledge made possible by the case study.
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