If you type EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) on Google you will get heaps of websites offering information on the so called EVP, and will tell you how to make your own EVP recording just like in the film White Noise. But what I want to know is anyone here has tried and got something out of it. I once tried by putting the voice recorder on, on my mp3 play in my room and leaving it there for 15 minutes. I got nothing. Was there anyone else who my have got something?
shareI tried once but this was way before the movie came out. I tried putting a tape recorder in the living room over night. The next day I went to listen to it. I could her a clock ticking. Now normally, this wouldn't be anything to even think about twice, except for the fact that both clocks that we have were not working at the time. They have to be physically wound up to work, and we hadn't done that in like a week after they stopped. So I found it extremely odd that it picked up a clock ticking. There was some other low toned noise that I couldn't pick out or tell what it was. But it did sound rather creapy!
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That is really creepy!
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I don't think you can do it for 15 minutes and really expect to get much. You would have to do it for an extended period, I would think.
And the "clock ticking" could have been a kitchen faucet dripping in a metal sink. Low quality, analog tape recorders would have a tough time discerning between the two.
I have not done any real research into this, but my personal belief is that the human brain's affinity for finding patterns in seemingly random things is where most of these EVPs come from. No matter what media you’re recording onto, the sheer fact that it is an electronic device means it’s susceptible to all forms of electronic interference from any number of sources.
I'm not a total skeptic though. If you take the phrase as it is, "Electronic Voice Phenomenon” … I can agree with 2 out of 3 of the words in that description. It is in fact a phenomenon that is electronic, but are they voices? I don’t know about that.
the motor on your tape recorder. As for "evp" and life after death, you don't need to go through all this white noise and electronic stuff to find out about it. We ALL are gonna find out someday. So just be patient. Someday, you will know. Just hope and pray that you don't wind up the type that spends eternity screaming in ghostly agony into some person's tape recorder at all hours of the day and night.
shareNo. Too scary. :(
shareWhen I die, I want to be one of those ghosts that slams doors or something, though I have to say, the afterlife doesn't look too promising if that's all 'ghosts' have to do.
shareVery creepy!
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"and we hadn't done that in like a week after they stopped"
Your language suggests you're not quite sure when they stopped and to go from "well the clocks don't work" to "ghost clock" is quite the leap.
There are no such things as ghosts, sorry.
No such things as ghosts?? Really? Matter of opinion. You cannot 100% disprove. just as we can never 10000% prove. I am one of the 75% of people who disagree with you. What are we made up of? enegry matter/ what happens with energy? transfers!
shareIt disperses. Human consciousness is nothing but chemicals reacting to stimulation. Once our bodies shutdown that energy is not loyal to us- it moves on.
I like the idea that we are a part of the universe experiencing awareness for a very brief time. The matter that makes us is the same matter that stars are made of.
The idea of an afterlife and living forever is not a happy idea but a tragic and horrifying one that if were true would explain why ghost are so damn angry.
But the burden of proof rests on the people making the claim. There are no ghosts until you can prove there are.
sharehttp://www.ghostpix.com/SPIRICOM%20-%20side01.mp3
http://www.ghostpix.com/SPIRICOM%20-%20side02.mp3
Check those out.
If you want to look up serious scientific research into EVP, search for 'Spiricom' on a search engine.
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right.. why try and prove something when you know you have no evidence of any kind, including the actual recording.
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When I was younger and a bit naive my friend and I were playing with a ouija board and we taped recorded the session. Weird thing was that throught the recording we could hear a phone constantly ringing... from the moment we began to the moment it ended. VEry strange.
On the bonus features of the dvd it tells you how to do evp yourself. They recommend if you use a tape recorder and a microphone, to create white noise by playing static, running water etc. Otherwise you can by a digital recorder that only records when you speak... Very nifty!
Of course you get statics when you record the time you play with ouija board cuz ouija board is for real, it possess the devil. When you play with the board, you are in contact with a real devil and if you keep continuing it the devil wont leave you and he'll haunt you, drive you crazy until you kill yourself. How it works for ouija board is you call up a demon from Hell to play the little game with you and if you dont say goodbye when you're done with the game, the demon doesnt return to Hell, but he hang around by the ouija board and start to possess you. If you really want to make the EVP work, put a tape recorder close to the TV with the blank channel that has hecka static in it, then ask any question while taping it, then leave the room and when you come back you will receive an answer.
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shareEVP probably isn't even real. I have quite a good explanation for it. You know if you listen to a noise constantly, just like a static sort of noise, you'll start to hear things, because you choose to because you're concentrating on it so much. For example, you know if you look at a wall or something when it's completely dark, you sort of imagine to see things, like various shapes and colours. Well EVP is exactly the same. Just hearing instead of seeing.
shareI agree. When you want to hear or see patterns and think about it enough, you will see them in the end. Try it, it's easy: just think very hard about a song you particularly like (or dislike, as long as it stays in your head) and walk down and up the stairs a few times. I think you'll notice that your footsteps have sort of the same melody as the song in your head. I think this is the same thing, if you concentrate long enough, you will start to hear things you want to hear.
shareI don't understand why you people shun a thing like EVP so easily. Do you realise how much research is being devoted to it? Have you done any research at all? You will find websites with things that will simply make you think things over again. And what you said about people imagining it all...you mean like hundreds of people imagine the same voice saying the same thing in one recording? Come on. Try and do a bit of research. I did, and I found a relatively large collection of examples, be it audio, picture or video. I'm not saying that there is life beyond death. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. I'm just saying there's gotta be at least something to the whole EVP story.
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Stare at some clouds and you'll see Abraham Lincoln and teddy bears. Our minds force patterns from randomness, that's how they work. E.V.P. is C.R.A.P.
shareI'll get my newsflashes from CNN, thank you very much! And, hey, I have one for you, Joshua888: you don't know jack about jack! Yes, people are stupid. Therefore, you, too, are stupid, Joshua888, and you cannot even remotely comprehend the physical nature of the universe, let alone the metaphysical! What a shame for you to be so... feeble-minded. You will never be able to appreciate the wonders of this universe in which we live.
shareDo you have any idea how dumb you sound? NO ONE knows what happens after death. You telling someone they don't know, but you do (know there is nothing) makes you look like a fool. But I'm sure you already knew that.
shareYou don't know that, so don't think you're amazing!
Nobody knows if it's real or not, so shut your mouth, please and thanks...
Its like the stairway to heaven backwards thing. You only hear it when you know your supposed to. Another person will hear nothing.
shareI have and have gotten something. I volunteer at a museum that is housed in a mansion that started as a small farm house in the late 1600's. There's a ton of legends about the place and any of us that spend enough time there have a story or two to tell. Urban legends are a hobby of mine, so I end up hearing most of them. Anyway, in the past few years, we've been going on our own ghost investigations as well as inviting several others who have expereince in the field. Some are psychics and some come to try to get more "scientific" evidence such as seen on the show "Ghost Hunters". The most recent hunt took place a few days before Halloween this year and we decided to bring a recorder along and see what happened. This particular night, the house had a strange feel to it. As we walked down the hall to the master bedroom, a few of us got this impression that someone was chased down this hall and attacked. we turned on the recorder and asked a few questions. When we later listened to the recording, one of us asked "Are you still being chased?" The recording has a whispered "no" as an answer. None of us remember saying this or hearing it. You can believe it or not, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Where is this museum? In Philadelphia or Jersey? Where can I find references to the events that occurred there?
Thanks for any help you can give me.
it's in Jersey. Middlesex county. There aren't many specific records, but we are working on getting a documentary made with footage from our ghost hunts.
share Hey just wondering what house you are talking about. I was born and raised in Middlesex County, Milltown to be specific. I know several of the supposedly haunted houses in the area and the one you describe sounds familiar but I cannot place it. Oh and have you tried recording anything on Shades of Death Road? It wouldn't surprise me if you got something good there. Hell just driving down the road at night can be an adventure.
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Let me add my voice to those saying that EVP is crap. There are two reasons you hear "voices" in white noise. The first has been extensively discussed already, the drive of the human mind to find patterns in random "noise". If you listen long enough to static, you will start to hear voices. Hell even I hear them, and I am totally skeptical. Here is an experiment for all you "EVP is the real thing buddy" types. Make yourself a recording of white noise. Put three people in three different rooms and let them listen to the recording by themselves. Ask them to keep notes of what they hear. You will find that all three people will hear "something" and all three will disagree as to what they heard. I know this to be true because I have done the experiment several times myself. This is exactly the same phenomenon you get with "backward masking" (implanting messages via rock songs by playing them on a single track backwards). We used to have a great deal of fun playing rock albums backwards and getting people to guess what the message was. It helps to be bombed out of your gourd. ;)
The second explanation is even easier than the above. The simple hoax is sill a great deal of fun for the Twinkie brained among us. Just look at the popularity of crop circles. With a little experimentation you will find that putting your mike in front of your TV speakers to record the noise will produce very spooky results if you merely talk in a normal voice 7 to 10 feet from the mike. And of course with computers and mixing software, you can produce voices that would make your Aunt Matilda's wig stand on end!
So please, EVP is nothing more than an easily understood psychological quirk of the human mind, and the human desire to be impressive. Not to mention the rank smell of fear that discussions of death always bring around. We are so eager (and arrogant when you get right down to it) to "prove" that we somehow survive after death that any piece of trash crap that comes our way we will eagerly swallow and ask for more. I will never understand this drive on humanity's part to believe in fiction merely because it comforts. So sorry buds, but give me harsh cold reality any day of the week!
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i don't know about the just leaving a tape recorder on but as for 'white noise', the fuzzing when something is detuned, i think if you listen hard enough you can hear anything. it's like the satanic messages which are alleged to be on certain records when you play them backwards!
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