EVP

EVP
Electronic Voice Phenomena.

One of the most tantalising pieces of evidence which can occur on an investigation is the capture of an EVP. While many websites lead down the path of 'White Noise' or 'Static' analysis, which use televisions or radios which are untuned to find voices of the dead imprinted on them, I find the use of camcorders and dictaphones more fascinating.
The problem with white noise capture is that of audio Matrixing which is basically hearing random swishes of fuzz and static and trying to assign real words to the noises. Whereas with a dictaphone for example you perform a mere recording with a microphoned piece of equipment and if you ask out questions to inspire communication then although nothing is heard audibly at the time of recording by your ears, upon playback there are voices if your lucky.
Our team has been quite lucky with these and caught three or four definite voice replies along with animal noises where animals weren't present.
But the capture percentage works out at less than 10% and so there's a lot of audio to trudge through with nothing surprising on. But when you believe you've caught something substantial, it makes the hours worthwhile.

Why and How this works is open for discussion I guess but the common reply to those would be this;
Spirits use their energies to show themselves in different projected states to the living. The can be anything from a breeze, a mist, a push force up to a full bodies solid looking manifestation. They can use that same energy to manifest audibly onto an electrical frequency which is then heard by us.
Sound itself (along with every thing in the universe) is a vibration and so to aid spirits in creating audio, some believe creating a sound wave or vibration for the spirit to use is a more likely path to catching something.
So singing bowls, gongs, bells guitar notes or chants have become a usual tactic. So after you've made a noise, you would spend five minutes or so 'asking out'.
"Please tell me your name?" Then leave a gap of absolute silence.
"Why are you here?"
That sort of thing. But something to gear in mind is the spirit building up its energies to get the strength to do it part. How long does this take? It's all guess work which is why you should start your recording at the beginning and run for the duration which means a LONG review section which we recommend be broken down into fifteen minutes when listening back.
Ofcourse it's all guess work to a degree and when you get results it's hard to say what you did right to make it happen.
So if you are serious about catching a ghost voice, you need two things...patients and as much controlled quiet as possible.
Another approach is to speak out what you want to an empty room and leave.
Providing there's no interruption, you may be surprised by what you find.


C Whitehouse.