Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP 101)

Electronic Voice Phenomenon also known as EVP is not something new that just happened in the last 10 years or so. It's been around for a long time and only recently in the last few years has it had the spot light on it. There is a lot of controversy as to what exactly is an EVP.

WHAT PEOPLE THINK

Some people believe that EVPs are bouncing radio, Tv or cell phone signals that are captured on modern digital electronics or tape recorders. While we are constantly bombarded with radio, Tv and cell phone signals, those frequencies are not picked up by most recorders because of the frequency range they are in. This can be proven by taken any digital recorder, go to a quiet room, press record and then after a few minutes go back and listen to it. You'll find nothing but silence. So much for bouncing signals.

Another example that rules out the "bouncing signals" theory is that most EVPs that I've heard and/or captured myself are usually interactive. Meaning you ask a question, you get an answer (or interaction or response).

An example would be:

Asker: What is your name? And on your recorder you hear a female name
EVP: "Rachel"

Your EVP sample sounds like a womans voice which supports your EVP and the name is also a womans name. EVPs also capture the emotion of the entity that can be heard through their tone.

An example would be:
Asker: How do you feel?
EVP: "I'm sadddd".

One on a recent follow up investigation where we captured the voice of a woman, we talked openly to the entity in hopes of hearing her again. To our surprise we captured her voice AGAIN and she completed a sentence I started. I said talking to someone else "It would be very cool to turn around and play this" and she interjected "... And hear me." Which was very cool because it shows that 1.) the entity who made the EVP is listening and 2.) the entity is also interactive.

I said "entity" because the debate as to if it's a "ghost" or the "easter bunny" or "santa" has yet to be proven. How can I say it's a ghost when there's no evidence that it is. The only evidence we have is a interactive voice that is not from anyone in the room with us. It equally could be argued that it's the voice of the easter bunny or santa just as equal as it could be a "ghost". EVP's don't prove that ghosts exist... but they are believed to be the voices of the dead. How do we know this? We recorded a voice of a woman who passed away last year and her whole family 100% identified the crystal clear EVP as being her.

Without ever meeting or knowing her, I heard a voice sample taken when she was alive and compared it to the EVP we captured. It sounds identical to the voice sample.

Steven Wolff
Founder, GERC & STGHA
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