Electronic Voice Phenomenon
A Look Into The Realities of EVP
EVP is an occurrence where images or sound will appear on recording media with no explanation as to how it got there. A few movies have been made about the subject where the main character opens up a window to the Other Side to look for glimpses of a deceased loved one. It makes for a gripping story but surely that’s all it is right, a story? Wrong. In reality this phenomenon is surprisingly more common than we think.
How Common is it?
With the prevalence of digital voice recorders it was a statistical certainty that someone would notice sounds in the background that had not been there at the time of recording. It’s so common in fact that we are likely to have seen or heard dozens of such examples without realizing it. When listening to a recording on tape, mp3, or CD a voice might be so soft as to be unnoticeable against all the noise.
Any television has probably been home to EVPs as well. One very common example is when looking at their television one might see shadow images of people or faces behind the program that’s playing. It’s easy to rationalize this as another channel bleeding through to the channel one’s watching. Do a quick check of the other channels, it’s very rare to find that anything matching the phantom shapes is playing. VHS tapes are rewritable and are based solely on magnetism; as such they register EVPs more often than DVDs.
Explanations
Popular belief is that our electronic recording equipment is catching sounds and images from spirits or the dead in places that were familiar to them in life. Several suggestions as to just how this is possible have been presented, the most credible of which states that the presence of spirits, according to paranormal psychology, are associated with particularly strong and active electro-magnetic fields. All current audiovisual recording devices are easily influenced by electro-magnetic fields. It is postulated that such spirits are able to deliberately use their surrounding electromagnetic fields to imprint their presence on these recording devices.
Dangers?
If one is worried about the consequences of EVP like ones sees in the movies, don’t be. There are many organizations that pursue the recording and research of EVP diligently and there have been no accidents amongst any of them. That is not to say that one won’t find a spirit’s message to be spoken in cryptic or disturbing phrases. In these cases it often helps to know the history of the site where the recordings were made. Often the spirits will refer to specific occurrences which had great meaning to them while they yet lived.
Recording EVP Instructions
The basic method to recording one’s own EVP involve simply running a tape recorder and having a source of white noise in the background with no other outside noise. When the tape is finished recording simply play it back and listen very closely. As the voices one might hear using this method are difficult to discern this isn’t always very effective. A better method is to use a blank VHS tape and record it while tuned to a channel that has no reception. When it’s finished taping, play back the tape. Human beings’ brains are designed to pay particular attention to visual stimuli. As they say “Seeing is believing”.
Often EVPs Are Recorded In Homes of The Deceased
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