Electronic voice phenomena - History

Interest in EVP apparently began in the 1920s. In a Scientific American interview, Thomas Edison was quizzed on his views regarding contacting the dead. Edison (who seems to have held no strong religious belief), opined that no one knows if "our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere" but he also speculated that "it is possible to construct an apparatus which will be so delicate that if there are personalities in another existence or sphere who wish to get in touch with us in this existence or sphere, this apparatus will ...

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Since Jurgenson's report, thousands of people all over the world have attempted to replicate the spirit voices phenomenon, claiming success in many cases. They use no special equipment to capture voices such as these, only a microphone and a means of recording, such as a tape/minidisc/CD recorder or a computer, and patience. It is said it can take months of diligent recording before voices appear. Proponents recommend the use of headphones, because the voices are often faint, and a computer for processing the recordings is very helpful. See also:

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According to the American Association - Electronic Voice Phenomena (or AA-EVP), a possible explanation for EVP is contained in the Survival Hypothesis, which states, "...we are nonphysical entities who are able to exist in the physical aspect of reality because of our physical body, but that when our physical body dies, we as Self, change our point of view to nonphysical reality. In effect, we exist before and after our current lifetime. The working hypothesis supported by AA-EVP is that these messages are, indeed, nonphysical in orig ...

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The quality, volume and durations of recordings are said to be increased by using a sound source placed within audible distance of the microphone during recording. Typically this would be a radio tuned to between stations so only white noise is audible; the theory being that this provides an acoustic basis for the voices to be constructed from, similar to vocoder technology. An alternative explanation is that the white noise provides random sounds that may be interpreted as voices by people who expect or want to hear voices. This expl ...

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