June 18, 2011
Is This Thing On?

Hi,

The ghost seems to have worn himself out again. I've been reading up on things again and I came across something called E.V.P. It's short for Electronic Voice Phenomena. Basically you run a tape recorder and ask the spirit questions. When you play back the recording you hear the ghost answering. It doesn't seem to matter if you use an old tape recorder or a new digital recorder. Either way the answers or comments or whatever is on the ghost's mind is there in the static. It's usually faint and a lot of the time it's hard to figure out what exactly they are saying.

That's the rub about this E.V.P. People hear what they want to hear sometimes. Beyond that even if it's clear to everyone what is said it doesn't always make sense. At least some of the time it makes sense later on in light of some other evidence about the life or death of the exact dead person on the recording. It seems really hard to figure out whom that someone is, especially if there are poor records, or if you don't even know where to start.

I have a digital audio recorder in my MP3 player so I decided to have an E.V.P. session. I figured it was better with my ghost having little energy to move things around or wrap on things to answer questions. That's a seriously scary thought and I don't think I will be doing that any time soon--deliberate moving objects that is. That's not clearly expressed, but you get the gist. Anyway. I asked the obvious questions like who was there, what did they want. Now, those questions never seem to get answered, or so I gathered looking into it further after. I felt a bit sillier yet after learning that, than I did talking to different empty rooms in my house.

Now here's the kicker. I turned the volume up. I download the files onto my laptop and looked at the waveforms like you see on countless TV shows. There are no answers. There is nothing but static. There are no odd noises. There are no voices. I don't know what to think. Maybe the ghost is too tired to do whatever it has to do to make the E.V.P. work. I just don't know.

Tags: answers, EVP, ghosts, MP3, questions, recording, TV, voices, waveforms.