E.V.P's Defined:
A voice recorded on a tape recorder/digital recorder from which there is no logical or known source. Paranormal investigators and researchers of EVP believe the voices that are captured on a tape/digital recorder are the voices of the dead or the spirit of the dead that is trying to communicate. Thomas Edison began the interest in EVP in the 1920’s when he predicted that in the future there would be a machine that would allow the living to communicate with spirits. Friedrich Jurgenson (the Swedish filmmaker) in 1959 was said to have discovered EVP by accident, when Jurgenson was recording birdsong he had reportedly recorded an unknown voice which he later went on to believe was the voice of his mother who had died four years before. Konstantin Raudive a Latvian psychologist reported capturing EVP in the 1970’s when he recorded unknown voices in the background whilst trying to record something else, he went on trying to capture voices in empty rooms and he continued capturing the EVP’s which were later assumed to be the voices of the dead. He published his research in German in the Inaudible made Audible, which was translated in English in 1971 with the new title “Breakthrough”. EVP’s are also known as Raudive voices in recognition of the many voices recorded by him (he recorded over 100,000 voices). In the 1980/90s there were thousands of researchers of Electronic Voice Phenomena who were constructing machines and recording the Phenomena. George Meek a retired engineer invented a device called “Spiricom” (which was well known and highly funded). Meek claimed he invented the Spiricom with the alleged help of a dead scientist who contacted him during a Séance. The success of the Spiricom was quite poor. According to research EVP’s are never heard during recording but only on playback of the recording and can be in different languages and can even be heard as singing. The EVP’s can also be identified as women, men, animals and children’s voices. There are many believers in the Phenomena known as EVP that believe it to be Paranormal but there is also many critics who doubt the recordings are genuine Paranormal Phenomena. The Society for Psychical Research between the years of 1970/72 commissioned researcher DJ Ellis to investigate EVP voices, he concluded that the Phenomena was most probably a natural Phenomena. EVP researchers continue to devote their time to trying to prove or capture something on tape that can prove existence after death. Over the past decade EVP as been reported to have been captured using TV, video cameras and computers. People and researchers from around the globe have reported voices and unexplainable images coming from their televisions with no logical explanation. There are many ways to record or attempt to record EVP, the more professional researcher uses highly technical equipment but the easiest and simplest way is to turn a recorder on and just leave it running (night time is probably best or when alone to reduce the risk of interference). Headphones are best used when playing the recording back a relaxed and positive approach is best doubting ones self may cause you to have a negative impact on your captured results. If you want an answer to a specific question from a spirit by using EVP you are best asking the question that you would like answering such as the spirits name etc by asking out right whilst recording and then by having a short silence giving the spirit time to reply, many researchers have conducted experiments this way and have received some outstanding results.
