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EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena)

 

 

Electronic Voice Phenomena or "EVP", is a way to communicate with spirits. It is believed the voices of the dead can be recorded and played back. The words or phrases obtained are usually only a few seconds long. Normally, the EVP is not heard until played back during an evidence review. (Unless investigators are using a Spirit box, aka Ghost box, Frank's box)

 

History

Thomas Edison believed that an electronic device could be built to communicate with people who have crossed over. He believed that if spirits could be captured on film, why not electronically? Edison announced in the October 1920 issue of the Scientific American that he was working on such a device but it was never completed. Edison died in 1931 leaving behind no machine or blueprints.

 

The actual credit for discovering EVP’s went to a Fredrich Jurgenson who was recording bird songs in the countryside in Sweden and when played back his recording, found a man’s voice discussing nocturnal bird songs. He spoke in Norwegian.

 

In the early 1950’s a Catholic priest was recording a chant and on playback picked up a voice repeating the chant. He then decided to ask some questions, upon listening to the recording again, picked up responses to questions asked to his father, including the nickname his father would call him.

 

1965 was the year that the science field took over the EVP research. Konstantin Raudive was a professor of psychology and began documenting words on audiotapes. Between 1965 and 1974 he recorded over 100,000 audiotapes under strict conditions. He published his findings in books including “Breakthrough” and “The Inaudible Made Audible”.

 

Since the 1970’s, scientists have made many discoveries. Marcello Bacci of Italy has conducted “Instrumental Trans-Communication Voice” (ITC) research in his laboratory. He uses “Direct Radio Voice Method” (DRV) to obtain abnormal communications directly through speakers of radios. These voices seem to acknowledge listeners by name and to respond to questions. In 1982 Engineer George Meek built a device called a Spiritcom. Meeks claimed that he could enable a two way conversation between the living and the dead. He proceeded to give away the machines at no cost for research but received no initial success with the project.