Welcome to our E.V.P. Webpage
What is E.V.P.?
EVP stands for
Electronic Voice
Phenomena. Sometimes spirits of
the dead are able to record sounds and sometimes their voices on
electronic recording devices. Exactly how they are able to do this
is somewhat of a mystery. There are several theories as to how they
can do this and two of those theories are based on the same concepts.
1) Spirits are energy based entities who are sometimes able to
manipulate the natural magnetic fields around them.
2) Some believe the method spirits use to make sounds on a recording
device is by manipulating the pink noise a sensitive recorder would
normally record. Some call it white noise while some call it pink
noise but it's the natural hissing sound a sensitive recording device will
pick up while recording when there are no other sounds present. The
explanation to this effect is that spirits are able to move the pink noise
around until it creates words and sounds.
3) Others believe that spirits being energy based are able to simply
cause fluctuations in the microphone itself causing the sounds to be
heard. This method would produce a similar effect as sound waves do
upon the diaphragm of a microphone. Sound waves use air to travel to
their destination. The sound waves move the diaphragm in the
microphone which move the coil based in the magnetic chamber in order to
produce an electronic response into the recording device. But with
spirits being unable to move the air around them as they have no physical
body instead they move the metal coils themselves producing the sounds.
Sometimes people only hear the hissing sound of their recorder in play
back mode but some people can actually hear voices within the pink noise.
What may be very clear to some may be very obscure or non existent to
others.
How To Capture EVP
There are several things you should understand before attempting an EVP.
Regular tape recorders don't work well because they have motors in them
that drown out and otherwise obscure the EVP. You need a digital
voice recorder that can be bought any almost any good electronic discount
place like Best Buy. The microphones are very sensitive in most of
them. They can literally hear through the walls when used correctly.
They can certainly hear and amplify things the human ear can not hear.
Ask your question and wait but do not move around. Be absolutely
still. Moving your finger from one button to another can drown out
any possible EVP that you might capture. Shuffling clothing or
moving feet. The sound of a chair squeaking or bed springs can
overwhelm an EVP so that it is un-legible or even completely hidden in the
other sounds.
Ask your question and wait at least 10-15 seconds for an answer.
If you know of a haunted location and have permission to be there your
on the right track. The next thing you should understand is that
while ghosts might be found almost anywhere they are not very used to
having the living speak to them expecting an answer back. You may
speak several times and not receive any response at all. You must
make them aware that you are trying to listen to and record their voices.
Once they realize you are attempting to communicate with them one or more
of them may attempt to answer you. It is my own opinion they must
realize you want them to "speak into the little box." They must
understand what is required of them before they can leave their sound
imprints on your recording device. Some ghost's may be better at it
than others. You may ask 50 or 60 questions before receiving one
legible answer so do not be discouraged. Sometimes they answer when
you least expect them to.
Keep your sentences and questions short and to the point. Though
I am new to EVP research it's been my experience that most legible ghostly
answers seldom span more than 3 words. I have captured what sounds
like entire sentences but I have not been able to comprehend the longer
durations of EVP. I've captured other sounds that were not voice but
not being able to explain them I am inclined to think it is possible those
other sounds were being made by something in the paranormal world.
Sometimes they sound like animals. Sometimes they sound like
clanking or banging or maybe even footsteps.
Numerous times I've rambled on asking my question with so many words a
ghost wouldn't have a fair chance to answer. If they did I would
have been talking over them. So keep your questions short and to the
point and try not to ask anything that requires a detailed explanation.
I don't know how much energy it takes for a ghost to answer so that we can
hear them on our recorders but I'm inclined to believe it takes a fair
amount of energy on their behalf. It might be possible to frustrate
them by asking questions that require long drawn out answers. At
Piper's Opera House and at Gold Hill Hotel both the spirits spoke a little
bit then quit. Between the two and out of about 60 some odd
questions we only received two answers that were relatively easy to
understand.
Processing EVPs so you can display
them or share them with your friends.
Capturing an EVP is only the first part of your EVP
experience. While your voice may be quite loud on your recording
device the ghost's voice will most likely be down among the hissing
sounds. You must process and separate the hissing from the voice
sounds. I keep telling myself that one of these days I'm going to
buy a book that describes how to do all this. Until then I've
learned a few things I can share with you here.
You need to get your EVP's from your small digital
recorder into your computer. Preferably a computer that has audio
processing software in it.
Set your record input to the computer to a high level like
44khz mono.
I tried recording directly from my little recorder into my
Sound Blaster Platinum Live card in my computer. Though I did manage
to capture the sounds after spending two days working with my EVP's I
realized it wasn't as good as it should have been. I connected my
little recorder/player to my professional mixer. The mixer has a
graphic equalizer in it. I began playing the audio over and over and
moving the controls until I had isolated the sounds I wished to keep while
removing the higher and lower sounds that I did not wish to keep.
Then I set the volume as high as possible without clipping or getting
distortions and I began re-recording my EVP's. The results were much
better than before. The top two EVP's below were processed this way.
Most sound recorders like Sound Blaster Live Recording
Studio displays the sound file as a graphic line. You can see where
your sounds are located within that graphic line. You may see little
bumps where the sounds are being heard. Select that area of the
sound file and play it over a few times to be sure you have located the
sound you wish to amplify. Then select Tasks in the tool bar
at the top of the program and at the bottom it says "volume."
Select that and amplify it about 500 times, or until the audio is loud
enough you need not strain to hear it. Listen to it a few times to
be sure that's what you intended to do. Then save it out to your
hard drive under another name. I keep one directory folder with my
originals in it and make a copy that I work with in another folder.
This way my original files are not lost or changed.
If your file has to much hiss in it you may use another
software program that has the ability to change or remove noise in an
audio file. Gold Wave is one of these programs that is able to do
this. Be careful because some settings remove more than noise.
They can also remove the sounds you wish to keep. I've recently
learned by listening to each frequency level of the EVP's the voice within
them is literally part of the hiss. I can hear the voice at 60
cycles even when I turn everything else off. I can hear it at 300 at
400 at 1000 all the way up to 16,000 cycles. The normal voice is
within 1000-6000 cycles. You can cut off everything above and
everything below and still hear the voice correctly. But the ghostly
voices are literally within or made up of the pink noise or hissing
sounds. This seems to disprove accounts other EVP experts have given
saying the ghosts only speak below 300 cycles and therefore the pitch must
be changed in order to listen to them. Perhaps they should update
their equipment. :-) I've yet to find any EVP's isolated below 300
cycles.
Please NOTE! Listening to
EVP's!
I've come to the conclusion that people who are tone deaf
are generally not able to hear the sounds of the voices within the static
or pink noise. I've had two people tell me they can't hear anything but a
hissing sound where the ghost responds to the person asking the question.
The ghostly voices and sounds are generally within the pink noise or hissing noise.
Something else that's come to my attention is that for
some people who have problems hearing the voices, to them it's like those
3D pictures you can stare at and can't see the 3D image until your eyes
and mind separate. For some people the harder they listen the more
hiss they hear and the less voice or sounds they hear. For them they
must relax and let the sound play over and over until suddenly they hear
the sound image. As with the 3D computer images the image is hidden
within the patterns. With EVP's the sound images are hidden within
the pink noise. Some people can hear them without even trying while
others hear only noise. Some can view those 3D images and see the
picture instantly while others can try for hours and never see the image.
Always remember, just because you can't see or hear it, doesn't mean it's
not there.
Several professionals in the field
of paranormal research having experience with EVP's have told me the
first two on this list are perhaps some of the clearest they have ever
heard.
The EVP's below have been amplified and have had hiss
filters run on them to remove some of the hissing sounds. Upon close
examination they appear to be edited but I assure you they have only been
processed for clarity, they have not been faked nor has the voices been
altered. |
