Has any one tried EVP?

EVP saved my life

I left my MD recorder set for 4 hours recording. It was in my room. Guess what: I didn't hear any ghosts. Instead I listened to me sleeping, snorring as hell and stoping brathing from time to time. I have to wear an oxygen mask for sleeping but I found out in time.

A band of mine was playing in a house in Florida and recording. The house had a "history" to it. We didn't care and didn't really believe anything about ghosts. We definitely were not looking for anything. However, upon listening to the tape on play back (and mind you we were a quiet band, not a loud thumping distortion driven noise festival) you could clearly hear a voice saying "stop, please stop". We were so creeped out by this we packed up and got the hell out of there. As the microphone was in clear view of us the entire time and no one got near it. scouts honor.

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While producing a supernatural cable TV special ("South Jersey Ghost Hunt"), several years ago, we were shooting in Batsto (New Jersey), at the old cemetary.We had the asssistance of a ghost research group fom South Jersey. As you can guess, they were armed to the teeth with all sorts or electronic equipment,including EVP devices. While standing next to one of the gravestones, we picked up an EVP of a women laughing hysterically. It did not last long, but it was very distinct, and plain as day. Baring a hoax, or a very unlikely equipment malfunction,this was not the voice of anyone present at the time.
We also picked up the "orbs" phenomenon on our video equipment. Firstly, these phenomenon were recorded on $35,000, professional grade video equipment, not Walmart specials. Secondly, the person directing the shoot was the former lead cameraman for the Magnum PI series, with over 30 years experience in camera work. There were no fire flys, or any other flying debris, visible.
The video tape was brand new, in the wrapper, and was supplied by my production company. No one touched it, before it was placed in the cameras.
The videographer took it to a studio lab in New York, to determine what had caused the phenomena. They had no explanation.

"Richard's in good hands, Robin. The best in England."

Sometimes weird things happen that don't have easy explanations. Sure, I'm pretty skeptical of EVP, but that's just because I haven't seen it or heard it myself.

There have only been a few instances in my life when I've wondered about the presence of spirits and what not. One has to do with the death of my friend...we were in 10th grade, and he died at age 15 from tachycardia. The night he died, the smoke detectors in his house kept going off, even after the batteries were taken out of every single one of them. Then, a couple of weeks ago it happened again for the first time since that night, and the next day his mother found out about some medical complications for herself. Now I know people would just say those are patterns, but until then I'd never heard of (or seen) a smoke detector that is battery powered work without a battery. And for all of them in the house to do it, all of them without batteries...it was pretty odd.

The second instance is one that my mother experienced when I was much younger. My grandmother had recently died, but my grandfather was still living in that same house. We were all getting ready to go somewhere, but my mother had forgotten something for one of my younger brothers. So, she went back into the house, and as she walked in she heard the tea-kettle turn itself on. As she walked over to turn it off, she thought, "Good thing I was here, or the house could have burned down or something," as the stove was on, to heat the kettle. But when she turned it off, she remembered that she had HEARD the gas stove turn on when she walked into the house...and she felt frightened, thinking that my grandmother was in the house with her.

I know most people will probably think of conventional answers for these things, but I'm not able to come up with one myself...because I've never seen or heard of those things happening before. People are only ever really able to know FOR SURE things that they've seen or heard themselves. Everything else is hearsay and speculation. The fact is that we WANT to believe in something after death, ANYTHING. I think that, for many, even the idea of hell (which I certainly don't believe in) is preferable to non-existence.

Personally, with the phenomena I have described, I would rather NOT believe that that would be what comes next for us...just sort of wandering the earth on some other spectral level. If I had to pick what comes next...that wouldn't be it.

"Well if you wanted to make Syrok the Preparer cry...mission accomplished."

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Seven Days...

Punch the keys for God's sake!- Sean Connery, Finding Forrester (2000)
CRURNED

Longer years ago than I care to admit - long enough that nobody was even talking about EVPs, it just wasn't even in the culture, and I certainly didn't know about it, I caught something on tape that was irrefutably a male human voice, but he wasn't speaking English, and it was just a few words. I freaked OUT. It was very, very creepy. I was alone in my room, using one of those old cassette recorders with a little mic, and a little earpiece. I was reciting something onto tape. The male voice came right in my earpiece as loud as my own voice. Nobody else was near my room, it wasn't anyone outside the door; the sound came from right beside me. I heard it while recording, and when I rolled back the tape it was there alongside my voice just as I'd heard it. There was no drop-out of my recorded voice, "he" and I were both speaking simultaneously. I never figured out the language spoken. There were no radios, stereos or TV on near the part of the house I was in. I was alone and in complete silence - I was trying to record something and needed the quiet, so there is no question anyone was around, talking, or had a radio on.

This was, as I said, in the days before this whole thing was a talked about phenomenon, so it wasn't a case of me fooling myself or trying to catch something on tape. It was only years later that I even heard about this, and that was even creepier in hindsight because although I've since lost the tape I've never forgotten the incident. I never pursued it further and actually even now I wouldn't want to try. It's very eerie no matter what you believe about it...

Well, after watching white noise, I guess my friends and I got a little curious about EVP. We didn't really try anything, but during school we got on the computers and looked up EVP recordings. Well, we played one, and at first it was a really quiet voice, then it got louder and louder and the speakers were seriously going psycho. I was CREEEEEPED.


But yeah, I don't think anyone should really try to contact the dead, because seriously, we don't know what else is after death, other than those we love ( if you beleive in an afterlife ) there's lots of good people alive, there's lots of good people dead. there's lots of bad people alive, there's lots of bad people dead.

I wouldn't take my chances.