I belive in the phenomena that it exist, but i do not know what it is.
I have come up with 12 theories so far, If you got a new approach that
is not on my site please let me know.

Well, checking out your theories, I find them very interesting. Nice site, by the way. Anyways, I think that the situations where there are EVPs, can vary. I have seen or heard, through the media, where each of your theories could work. Number 4, the residule energy, could explain or has been used to explain the Bara-Hack ghost town in Connecticut. In fact, I think the term for the place, was giving by the Native Americans to mean a parth from the past. It seems some have heard sounds of a present village, when it looks like the town is uninhabited.
Number 7, interferance, I have seen, when noticing a plane would spike a baby's monitor.
The rest would be, in my opinion, very good theories, in varying situations. I have watched the scifi show [i]Ghost Hunters['i], most of the time, EVPs heard on tape, wasn't heard at the time of recording. There are episodes, where the guys actually heard it, and it was varyified when it came up on tape. And there are even a few episodes, where us, the audience, have heard it, and it shows up on tape.

No my theory, is that the plane of existence of the dead, is different from ours. Time, passages, and the life, so what the human ear cannot pick up, the machines can. Probably animals too, considering they react to higher pitched sounds quicker than humans do. I also think that time is quicker for them, and have to communicate to our time stream, and maybe that is why it comes out in short sylabols. Maybe also why it's hard to be hear by the human ear, because it cannot pickup the time difference, like a recorder can.
Just my theories there, I hope it helps.

Sure does help ty.
The time seems to have something to do with it since the speed often are altered about 20%-30%.
But it could also be just that the pitch gets altered when the sound is recorded or passes into our dimension.

And as the time/pitch 'over there' not always is the same it's tempting to assume that the 'messages' really comes from
different sources or?

EVP is definatley a fact. I picked up EVPs before. Did you know the most common EVP's that are picked up is a spirit saying their name? Couple other common EVP's are Get Out or Help Me. I have heard EVP's that sound kind of robotic...but it all depends on the back ground noise that the spirit is using to come through with. Go to aaevp.com for more info. It is my fav site

That 'help me' is a kicker for me. I remember the one episode of Ghost Hunters where they were at the lighthouse, there was one heard, even Grant, Jason, and the audience heard it, where a woman screamed, "Help me!". From what, I wonder? It makes me wish we can do something, but it's such a mystery about the EVP involved, that so many theories of what is going on and what one can do, is frustrating.

I've gotten a lot of "help me", "need help" and "please help" EVPs. Can be very unsettling to hear.

I once asked Carl Johnson why so many EVPs seem to be asking for help. He agreed many are calls for help and said he believes it's because the ghost/spirit/entity doesn't know it's dead. It knows something is very wrong but doesn't knwo what and it calling for help.

But what if EVP is not ghost messages?
I can imagine that if something like 'residual energy' exists, emotional stuff like 'help' could
be one of those things that can get stored in that energy.?

trapped spirits - I don't like that thought at all, it's really sad to think of someone who was once alive not being able to cross over.

I've never tried to do an EVP, my thought is if I were to get something, there's no going back... and to be perfectly honest I'm afraid.

I don't understand it when people get EVP's and run them backwards, people don't speak backwards - I may be unsure about many things, but I just don't believe that's the case.

The 'help me' always gets to me.

It is unsetteling to know that a ghost doens't know it's dead or passed on, and must constantly live in that fear of whatever harmed them.

I think any one of the 12 theories you've outlined could explain any given EVP. The prob would be knowing exactly what kind an evp is and therefore treating each EVP independently

The time concept is interesting, but so is distance as well. Consider this, the source of an evp may not only just be from the present time ( ie residual/environmentally stored recordings) but also may not come from the immediate physical environment it's recorded in.

EVPs are most definately fact although how they exist is a mystery to me!

The other day I went to Kirby Hall in Northamptonshire and made several recordings asking plenty of questions. I did not get a single answer to any of the questions. But I did get something when I wasn't expecting it.

If you want to listen to my EVPs you can find them on my personal web site here:

Investigation 002

I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on the EVPs that I got.

I tried to listen but it wouldnt allow it on my pc for some reason. In any case, I DO believe in EVP's and have heard them myself. From my experience I think the "help me" words are based on those who are trapped or do not know they are dead. I do have a problem with certain questions such as when did you die, where did you die? Only because many have no idea they are dead, so with that said it seems to confuse them more. The ones I have heard, for the most part just say whatever they choose, and lots of times it doesnt make sense to us. Even on MH and TAPS they ask questions that they know cannot be answered. I find HELLO is a good start off then ask what they might need or want, and explain I am friendly and here to help. SO many PI's ask "how did you die" "Are you buried here?" is again confusing, as they dont answer in sentences. They are not going to answer that, plain and simple. To refer to them as "astral beings" "ghosts" or "spirits" in my opinion, wont get their attention. Maybe ask their name and take it from there and let them do the talking. Thats just my opinion. JN

Strange, their just normal .wav files and one is even an .mp3 file.

All you should need to do is right-click on them and save them on your computer so you can play them back in your media player such as WinAmp, Quicktime or Windows Media Player and the like.

1. Exactly what i was thinking about. Therefore It would be a very bad idea to say that _all_ EVPs are ghost related.
2. Thats a new angle, thanx. Very interesting. - The EVP could in that case also come from a 'physical environment' that have existed before OR will exist in the future.

I would be interested to hear some more EVP from Kirby Hall in Northamptonshire.

On TAPS last night they got two great EVP's - they were investigating a home and they caught the voice of a child twice... really good EVP that one, I was most impressed.

What do you mean? I only managed two capture 2 'voices' on my recordings and I put them all in the investigation write-up - or are you asking me to put the full recordings on my site so you can listen to the whole thing?

Oh, sorry i got the impression that you might be returning back for more recordings,
coz when I got an EVP from a cemetery and went back again, so i took for granted that you might too.


http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum...howtopic=106479

Ah! I see!

I must admit the thought had crossed my mind... what I plan to do at some point is to return with someone else and to basically wander around the place discussing Kirby Hall and its history and to talk about the various people who lived/stayed there. I then plan to visit the places where things have been spotted and where the EVP instances took place and to ask a few more questions to see if anything else crops up on the EVP recording.