Post by Brad-LaSpirits on May 13, 2007 10:37:33 GMT -5
Courtesy of GhosttoGhost.org:
The first EVP recordings In 1959, Friedrich Jurgenson, a Swedish birdwatcher, was recording birdsong using a reel to reel recorder. While monitoring one of his recordings, he noticed strangely garbled fragments of seemingly human speech had made their way onto the tape, although he was sure that he had been alone making the recordings. He was so mystified that he started experimenting, successfully recording a huge number of similarly extraneous voices during the next 4 years. While the voices were mostly distorted they seemed to belong to intelligent beings. Most were barely intelligible and almost completely drowned by tape hiss, which was a serious problem with the open reel recorders of the time. By closely listening to the voices, Jürgenson found that they spoke in different languages, often changing to another idiom in mid-sentence. Also, longer phrases often had an improper structure or grammar and, in some cases, the syllables were either stretched or compressed in a way that made it quite hard to comprehend the messages. The strangest aspect of all was the uncanny way the voices seemed to respond to his comments and even to mention his name now and then. Jürgenson began to hold conversations with the strange voices by recording questions and later searching the tape for answers. When he published his findings in 1963, Jürgenson was completely convinced that he knew the origin of the 'tape voices' in his opinion, the tape recorder was acting as a form of electronic communication link to the realm of the dead...
The first EVP recordings In 1959, Friedrich Jurgenson, a Swedish birdwatcher, was recording birdsong using a reel to reel recorder. While monitoring one of his recordings, he noticed strangely garbled fragments of seemingly human speech had made their way onto the tape, although he was sure that he had been alone making the recordings. He was so mystified that he started experimenting, successfully recording a huge number of similarly extraneous voices during the next 4 years. While the voices were mostly distorted they seemed to belong to intelligent beings. Most were barely intelligible and almost completely drowned by tape hiss, which was a serious problem with the open reel recorders of the time. By closely listening to the voices, Jürgenson found that they spoke in different languages, often changing to another idiom in mid-sentence. Also, longer phrases often had an improper structure or grammar and, in some cases, the syllables were either stretched or compressed in a way that made it quite hard to comprehend the messages. The strangest aspect of all was the uncanny way the voices seemed to respond to his comments and even to mention his name now and then. Jürgenson began to hold conversations with the strange voices by recording questions and later searching the tape for answers. When he published his findings in 1963, Jürgenson was completely convinced that he knew the origin of the 'tape voices' in his opinion, the tape recorder was acting as a form of electronic communication link to the realm of the dead...
I remember how I felt when I fist heard about Electronic Voice Phenomenon... I was like "Holy S*** are you serious!?" I've come a long way since then. And reviewed many many MANY hours of recordings too.