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Since the movie White Noise is coming out soon I thought I would post this


One of the most amazing things to come by when doing an investigation. Electronic Voice Phenomena this is where you run a tape recorder at a haunted location. You can ask the spirits questions or just let it run. Its when you play it back that you get some of the greatest results. At times you can get voice imprints from the spirits themselves. They can be heard answering questions, making comments or just making some strange noises.

The first thing you need to do is get yourself a good tape recorder with a counter. Some use mini cassette recorders or even digital recorders. But for the best results please use your standard tape recorder. Next and this is the most important thing to remember. Use a external microphone. This will keep you from recording the internal sounds a tape recorder can make. Its one good way to prevent them from being mistaken as EVP. Now you want to purchase name brand tapes. A lot of cheap generic tapes may have flaws on the tape and these could be mistaken as EVPs. Try to keep your tapes no longer then 90 minutes. Remember you will have to go back an listen to them and the longer they are. The more time it will take you to review them. If asking the spirits questions you can run shorter recording times. But if you are monitoring a room you will want it to run the whole length.

Tips on trying to capture EVP

1. When asking questions, remember to leave 15 to 20 seconds of silence. This will give the spirit the chance to reply.

2. Use high bias tapes. This will give you a higher quality of recording and also a better chance at picking up EVPs

3. Try to keep all back round noise down and make note to any noises you hear by stating it on the tape when you hear it. This will help to prevent any strange noises as EVPs

4. Have everyone in the room state their name and time on the tape before you start working on the EVP. This will help you to have a sample of everyones voice to compare to any possible EVPs

5. It doesnt hurt to let the spirits know that you are trying to record their voice. They just may give you the results your looking for.

6. And this is most important, Do Not Whisper while doing EVPs. You dont want yours or anyone else voice mistaken as EVP.

I was raised in the country.Three houses down the road from where I grew up was a cemetary which is over 200 years old. My friends and I used to pass the time on summer days by sometimes going up and reading the gravestones.I have relatives which were buried there also. Many of the older ones were hard to read due to weathering, or they had toppled and the headstone was in pieces. My next door neighbor Paula and I would sneak out at night sometimes and go walking through in the dark to see if anything out of the ordinary would happen.Nothing ever happened, except that we scared each other half to death. Being in the country there are no lights in the cemetary at night, and it could be dark as anything I've ever seen.Some nights the only way to walk all the way through was to listen to our feet hitting the road to make sure we were still on it. I have always wondered what would happen if I set a recorder in there at night. What results have you had icghosts?

My friend's house is huanted and we planted a recorder on the stairs, on the recorder we picked up voices in the background. Nobody was in the house when we did this. We couldn't make out the voices but there was something on the tape

At a cemetery near me I got on tape some laughter, talking, etc.

Will go back in the spring to this cemetery to do more voices.

Thanks for the tips on this, icghosts. There are two graves I would like to do. They are in a cemetery that is close to the road, tho, and cars go by at 45 mph.

I wonder if you could do that at any grave, even if you don't know the person buried. I imagine you could.

Has this ever been tried at 92 Second Street? That'd be interesting!

You have not been able to make out any words, ic? That's gotta be frustrating. I know it is when I'm seeing one on tv.

I think this is valid research. Have you been into "automatic writing"? And if so, or if not, what do you think of that?

Yes I have done automatic writing "ghost writing" felt a cold spot against me while doing it. This was done about 30 years ago right after my grandfather died

Since you are the one who did the writing, you know that it was real. I distrust the method from most, because it's akin to a Ouija board. It could be the person holding the pencil's subconcious or concsious, if they were an outright fraud.

Can you share what you got from it with us?