What are EVPs?

EVP’s What are they?                                       Segment 3

EVP also known as Electronic Voice Phenomena. An EVP is a voice or voice like sound that is not heard with your own ears but will be heard on your recordings. Some EVPs are more easily heard and understood than others. They can vary in gender , age of person, tone and emotion. They usually speak in single-words, phrases and short sentences. Sometimes they are just grunts, groans, growling and other vocal noises. There have been recordings speaking in various languages too.You need to use a digital recorder to capture your evps. They can also be caught on your video camera’s microphone. In a perfect world you would be in a perfectly quite area. No cars, no bodily noise (ever notice when you want to be quite you stomach starts making noises?), no kids outside, no clocks ticking, etc. But we will never be in that perfect area. You should always label your evp sessions. Either with paper and pencil or by vocially saying “car drove by” “so in so going up stairs” if a outside sound happens that could be later misinterpreted as paranormal.
EVPs have classifications of how good they are.

Class A~This type of EVP is loud, clear, and of very high quality. The voice is easily heard and does not need enhancement or amplification. Class A EVPs are also often (but not always) a direct response to a question being asked.

Class B~This is the most common type of EVP. This type of EVP is somewhat lower quality than a Class A EVP but still very audible. Class B EVPs often do need some amount of enhancement or amplification to be heard clearer. The voice may not be clear enought to be understood or there may be a disagreement as to what it is saying. Class B EVPs are often not in direct response to a question.

Class C~This is the lowest quality EVP. With a Class C EVP even the best enhancements and amplifications may not be sufficient to make the voice audible or clear. There may even be debate on wether or not an EVP is actually present.

A brief look into the history of EVPs is explained below. As well as how our EVP research got to where it is today.

Through the 1960’s and 1970’s researchers, especially in England, claim to have recorded thousands of voices. In 1982 engineer George Meek and psychic William O'Niell built a device call the "Spiricom". They claim it allows two-way real-time communication with spirits. This claim is still under heavy dispute.
Today, with the advent of digital records and reliable, professional grade sound editing software, paranormal investigators around the world continue to record and analyze unexplainable voices.Thomas Edison is generally credited with being the first to conceive that a device could be created to hear and speak with spirits. In a 1920’s newspaper interview he said someday it may be possible to have such a device. This is considered a remarkable comment since Edison himself never really showed any interest in the paranormal or supernatural, nor express any deep spiritual beliefs. He was trying to create a way to communicate with his mother when she passed. She unfortunately did pass before he finished his work.
At the same time other great inventors such as Gueglielmo Marconi (wireless radio) and Nikola Tesla (famous for his work with electricity), perhaps in cooperation with each other, also began work on devices that they believed could communicate with the dead.In the late 1920’s through 1930’s several psychic researchers claim to have heard voices on recorded radio broadcasts that were not part of the broadcast not could be accounted for by anything in the surrounding area. During World War 2 Swedish and Norwegian radio operators reported hear unfamiliar voices. They assumed it was the Germans. But after WW2 when capture German records were searched no evidence of Nazi activity on those frequencies at that time could be found.The actual credit for having first recorded an EVP goes to Fredrich Jurgenson. In 1959 Fredrich Jurgenson, a Swedish film producer, was supposedly recording bird songs in the Swedish Alps (he would later admit he was out trying to record the voices of the dead). He claims not to have heard anything unusual during the recording but heard many voices upon playback. He claims to have heard his own mother’s voice calling his name (some accounts say he heard his mother’s voice telling him he is being watched!). Jurgenson recorded hundreds of voices over his life time and played them at many symposiums and conferences. His recording still remain unexplained to this day.