EVP & other sound based phenomenon.

nitefox

So on this form we talk about EVP & other sound based phenomenon and exp's etc.so in the coming weeks we will learn lot more about EVP

stormkeeper

EVP has mixed success, really. It needs to be somewhere where no "contamination" can occur, otherwise the EVP is a writeoff

Ziycon

Its been talked about before, checkout these threads:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054988445
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054956355

nitefox

Ziycon wrote:

Its been talked about before, checkout these threads:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054988445
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054956355

Hi Ziycon how are you?.I have look at the 3 pages on this form i got not find that but it got have been on the other topic. Here is some info on it.

What is EVP?
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) is the term traditionally used to describe unexpected sounds or voices sometimes found on recording media. EVP initially involved audio tape recorders, but in later years, virtually any recording medium became a vehicle for phenomena. The term Instrumental TransCommunication (ITC) came into being to describe these expanded modes of audio- and video-format communication. Other acronyms used in the literature include Electronic Disturbance Phenomena (EDP) and Trans-Dimensional Communication (TDC).

Long story short, EVP are anomalous voices that show up in recordings, often claimed to come from the dead. These voices are reported to be phrases, words, or even dialogues with a living speaker. Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) is a term used to refer to voices or voice-like sounds, said by paranormal investigators to be of paranormal origin, heard or captured on recorded media or through other electronic devices. Examples of purported EVP are typically short, usually the length of a word or short phrase, although longer segments have also been reported. Paranormal explanations for EVP include communication from discarnate entities, psychic projections from EVP researchers, and communication from alien or trans-dimensional beings. Normal explanations include cross modulation or interference from nearby radio sources or random noise mistakenly perceived as voices due to pareidolia, the human propensity to find familiar patterns amongst random stimuli.
The term itself was coined by publishing company Colin Smythe Ltd in the early 1970s. Previously the term “Raudive Voices”, after Dr. Konstantin Raudive whose 1970 book Breakthrough brought the subject to a wider public audience, was used. References to EVP have appeared in pop culture such as in the Reality TV show Ghost Hunters, the fictional Supernatural and the Hollywood films White Noise and The Sixth Sense. Pre-1980 Self professed medium Attila von Szalay (Sealay) was among the first to definitively claim to have recorded the voices of the dead. Working with Raymond Bayless, von Szalay conducted a number of recording sessions with a custom-made apparatus, consisting of a microphone in an insulated cabinet connected to an external recording device and speaker. Szalay reported finding many sounds on the tape that could not be heard on the speaker at the time of recording, some of which were recorded when there was no-one in the cabinet. He believed these sounds to be the voices of discarnate spirits. Von Szalay and Bayless' work was published by the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research. in 1959. Bayless later went on to co-author the 1979 book, Phone Calls From the Dead.
In 1959, Swedish film producer Friedrich Jürgenson captured what he said was the discarnate voice of a man speaking Norwegian while he was recording bird songs. He went on to make many more recordings, including one that he said contained a message from his late mother.

Latvian psychologist Konstantin Raudive, who worked in conjunction with Jürgenson, made over 100,000 similarly natured recordings of his own, of which over 25,000 were said to contain identifiable words. In an attempt to confirm the content of his collection of recordings, Raudive invited listeners to hear and interpret them. In many cases the "voices" in Raudive's recordings were said to be heard clearly, and Raudive said that, as such, they could not be readily explained by normal means.
Paranormal researchers, including David Fontana, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Cardiff university's school of Social Sciences write that, during the early 1970's, Raudive conducted a number of recording sessions inside an RF screened laboratory belonging to British defense contractor Belling & Lee. During these sessions, Raudive is said to have recorded a number of voices which were "clearly understandable". Since their release, Raudive's interpretations of his recordings have been criticized as being highly subjective, and for the fact that the speech they are said to contain is often unrelated to questions that investigators posed, to any sources of EVP that might be present, during their recording.[20] Both Jürgenson and Raudive's recordings were said to contain sentences that were made up of several languages.