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EVPs
Electronic
Voice Phenomenon.
Electronic
voice phenomena (or EVP as it is commonly abbreviated to)
is the appearance of intelligible voices captured on recording
media such as audio tape or digital voice recorders, often
thought to be of supernatural origin that has no known physical
explanation and most often nothing will be heard at the time
of recording. |
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A
Brief History of EVP Recording.
In
the 1920s, Thomas Eddison believed that one day it
would be possible to build a machine that could help
people communicate with the dead. He published an
article in The Scientific American which said: "If
our personality survives, then it is strictly logical
or scientific to assume that it retains memory, intellect,
other faculties, and knowledge that we acquire on
this Earth.
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Therefore
... if we can evolve an instrument so delicate as to be affected
by our personality as it survives in the next life, such an
instrument, when made available, ought to record something".
It is believed that Edison may have worked on a prototype
until his death in 1931, but no model or plan of the machine
was ever found. In 1936, the invention of the phonograph prompted
a man named Attilz von Szalay to attempt recording paranormal
voices on records. With the invention of wire recorders he
got better quality recording and in 1964 he claimed to have
recorded on tape the voices of his deceased relatives.
In 1956 parapsycholgist, Raymond Bayless joined Attliz Von
Szalay in experiments and wrote an article for the Journal
of the American Society for Psychical Research.
In 1959 Swedish artist and film producer Friedrich Juergenson
went into the forest near his home to record bird songs. When
he played back the recording, he discovered his mother's
voice saying in German, "Friedrich, you are being watched.
Friedel, my little Friedel, can you hear me?". He carried
on his experimental recording and recorded hundreds of voices.
In 1963 he called an International press conference to announce
to the world what he had discovered. He went on to write two
books on the subject: Voices from the Universe and
Radio Contact with the Dead. |
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1965 Latvian psychologist and philosopher Dr. Konstantin
Raudive visited Friedrich Juergenson. He concluded that
the phenomenon was genuine, and started his own experiments
in Bad Krozingen, Germany. He too recorded the voice
of his deceased mother saying, "Kostulit, this
is your mother." (Kostulit was the boyhood name
she always called him). He recorded thousands of EVP
voices. |
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In
1967 Thomas Edison supposedly spoke 'through' West
German clairvoyant Sigrun Seuterman, in trance, about his
earlier efforts to develop equipment for recording voices
from the beyond the grave. Edison was reported to have made
suggestions as to how to modify TV sets and tune them to 740
megahertz to get paranormal effects. This session was recorded
on tape by Paul Affolter of Switzerland.
In 1971 the chief engineers of Pye Records decided to carry
out a controlled experiment with Konstantin Raudive. They
invited him to their sound laboratory and they installed special
equipment to block out any radio and television signals from
entering the lab. They did not allow Raudive to touch any
of the equipment. Raudive used one tape recorder which was
monitored by a control tape recorder. All he was allowed to
do was speak into a microphone. They recorded Raudive's
voice for eighteen minutes and during this time, none of the
experimenters heard any other sounds. When the scientists
played back the recording, amazingly, they heard hundreds
of voices on it. |
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1973, spiritual researchers George and Jeannette Meek
met a psychic, William O'Neil, who claimed to see
and hear spirits. The Meeks provided funding for a project
of advanced spirit communication, and O'Neil provided
the necessary psychic skills and electronics know-how.
O'Neil recruited several of his spirit friends into
the project.
One of his invisible colleagues was the spirit of Dr
George Jeffries Mueller, a deceased university professor
and NASA scientist who simply appeared in O'Neil's
living room one day as a semi-materialized spirit, and
announced that he was there to assist in the project
of Meek and O'Neil. |
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became a rather astonishing collaboration between dimensions:
Doc Mueller in spirit helping Bill O'Neil on Earth design
a new piece of electromagnetic equipment that would convert
spirit voices into audible voices. Appropriately christened
Spiricom, the new device was a set of tone generators and
frequency generators that emitted 13 tones spanning the range
of the adult male voice. |
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1980 Spiricom had advanced to the point where Doc Mueller's
spirit voice, was loud and easily understandable, and
Meek and O'Neil soon catalogued more than 20 hours
of dialog with their spirit colleague Doc Mueller. These
are reported in some detail in the book After
We Die, What Then? by George Meek. In
1982, George Meek made a trip around the world to distribute
tape recordings of 16 excerpts of communications between
William J. O'Neil and an American scientist who
died 14 years earlier. He also distributed a 100-page
technical report giving wiring diagrams, photos, technical
data and guidelines for research by others. |
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