The History of EVPs

In 1928, Thomas Edison worked on a device that he hoped would communication with the dead.

In 1959, Friedrich Juergenson, a Swedish artist and film producer, went into the woods to record bird songs. On playback, he discovered unexplained voices. After several years of experimental recording, he wrote a book 'Roesterna Fraen Rymden' (Voices from the Universe.)

In 1982, the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP) was formed to study EVPs. The AA-EVP was founded by Sarah Estep, who designed a classification system that is still used today

EVP FAQs (thanks to AA-EVPs website)

* More EVP messages are recorded at night or during stormy weather than during the day or when the weather is clear.

* EVP message length is typically very short, ranging from one word to short sentences.

* The voices involved in EVP messages often exhibit a shift in frequency outside of the normal human voice frequency range.

* Voices may be clearly male or female, old or young, even mechanical or "human" sounding. Some messages are delivered in a singing voice.

* EVP messages are often preceded by a sound that has been described as a "click" or a "thud."

* Messages are usually in the language of the experimenter, but individual experimenters have received other languages.

EVP Classification System

Class "A": voices can be heard and identified by anyone with normal hearing and knowledge of the language spoken; no special training of the ear is needed to detect them. It is easy to make tape copies of "A" voices, and they can be repeated as often as desired. .

Class "B" voices speak more rapidly and more softly, but are still quite plainly audible to a trained and attentive ear. The ability to differentiate increases with practice, but this is a slow and wearisome process.

Class "C" consists of the most interesting voices; voices that give us a great deal of information and much paranormal data. Unfortunately, these can be heard only in fragments usually and are often unintelligible or difficult to make out, even with amplification programs.

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