ELECTRONIC
VOICE PHENOMENON
Electronic voice phenomenon is a term used to refer to sounds captured on recorded media or other electronic devices that are said by paranormal investigators to be voices of paranormal origin. Examples of purported EVP are typically short, usually the length of a word or short phrase, although longer segments have also been reported.
Explanations proposed by those who say that they are paranormal in origin
include that they are the voices of deceased human beings, psychic projections
from EVP researchers, or communications from intelligent non-human entities.
Explanations proposed by those who
say they are not of paranormal origin include that they are the result of cross
modulation or
inteference from external
RF sources, or that they are" random noise that is mistakenly perceived as
voices due to pareidolia; the
human propensity to find familiar patterns amongst random stimuli.
Interestingly enough, the EVP phenomenon was predicted by
those reputed fathers of radio, Marconi and Thomas Edison who believed it was
only a matter of time before such magnificent technology would enable us to
communicate directly with the dead. Indeed, Edison even went so far as to
suggest that the spirit world would perhaps be the first to initiate the
communication by using radio to make contact with the living. He also worked on
developing a "psychic telephone" that he hoped would create a means to converse
with the discarnate, alas, without success.
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