Caffeinated poltergeists

I read James Randi's column every week, though often I find myself tired at his kneejerk, cynicism-fueled skepticism, which often has him taking obvious jokes as serious statements for him to debunk with ramped-up sarcasm (though, to his credit, when someone points out the jokeyness to him, he will say "oops" the following week). But a very serious email exchange he shares this week is precious.

It is a Krups model #467 coffee maker. I record the Spirits speaking through the coffee maker in their own voices with a Radio Shack Digital Voice Recorder and have hundreds of clear, often lengthy, meaningful statements from them. They will answer questions and they can also read. They will read and respond to notes placed in the vicinity of the coffee maker when it is running. Their voices can be heard emanating from the coffee maker in real time, (as they are speaking) though it is difficult to understand most of their words "in real time." They used to call "HELP!" very loudly at first and that was quite easy to understand. Those calls for help and hearing my name was how I first discovered (to my horror, initially) that this was happening.