Most horrific EVP ever?

**Skeptical** · Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject: Most horrific EVP ever?

Personally, I am not much of an EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) guy. Having worked in both radio and television, I am very familiar with something called RF - which is simply the tendency for radio frequencies to bleed over into one another. To me it seems very likely that when you set a tape recorder down somewhere and start recording, you run the risk of picking up errant signals from radios, televisions, telephones and who knows what else.

Just the same, I offer this EVP which is being billed as the most horrific EVP ever recorded. I guess horrific is a subjective term but i found the recording interesting (and confusing) nonetheless.

http://paranormal.about.com/od/ghostaudiovideo/a/aa101507.htm?nl=1

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Ataraxik · Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:08 pm Post subject:

Enh. They've already edited it, noise reduction, amplification, and general clean-up. It's no longer valid as evidence. I didn't bother with the download, but it sounds like a scene from a movie.
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**Skeptical** · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:02 am Post subject:

As I was posting this thread yesterday, i got to wondering about how EVP got started as a "paranormal" event. Turned up this website with a brief history:

http://www.evpuk.com/evp_history.html

I still can't put a lot of stock in it as evidence of paranormal activity. The "voices" are usually muddy (although this particular EVP does have a few snippets of words I can actually understand). Convincing arguments can be made, however, that they aren't voices at all. Like we misinterpret random visual patterns as human faces, it is certainly possible that we want to interpret certain sound frequencies and tonalities as voices.

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Ataraxik · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:01 am Post subject:

In double blind tests, listeners to the non-obvious 'white noise' type of EVPs separated from each other all hear something different or hear nothing at all, while listeners who've been prepped with the paranormal back story who heard anything heard what they'd been told they'd hear. Audio-pareidolia.
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