Well I was just wondering. Since the E.V.P phenomena would be rather simple to test, have you ever tried it? Or are you just too scared of what you might hear? I'd be pretty interested in hearing your experiences.

I remember reading somewhere that it was recommended that if you did decide to try getting an EVP that you go somewhere else to do it, and don't try it at home...

I guess it would be rather unsettling to get responses while you are sitting in your own home...knowing that you are going to have to try to sleep that night...

Personally I wouldn't try to do such a thing...for me that would be too stressful/ upsetting to get an actually response. I just have enough stress in my life without having to consider if dead people are trying to leave me messages...no thanks... I don't even know if the phenomena is really what it appears to be or not, but hearing the recordings that I have heard so far still makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck...

Yah I would NEVER do it at my own home. I would never be able to be alone again at home...just way to scary..

Maybe I should go do it at my friends house...hehehe

same here...im pretty sure i have a ghost here, but i really dont want proof, as im pretty freaked out as it is.....

i've heard real life evps from these people i know who went to a cemetery a few weeks ago...it made my skin crawl.

I am in a ghost hunting group though, and although we have the equipment, we haven't had a chance to use it yet....

Well, I wouldn't do it at my own house either. Sometimes I get goosebumps by just going to the toilet at night. Sometimes when I'm going upstairs I get an irresistible feeling to look behind my back. It's annoying. If I did an EVP test I'd probably never sleep again in that house.

BTW... This is a bit out of the topic, but I've had quite an interesting experience with an old VCR. A few years ago I copied some films from cassette to another. When watching the copy, I started wonder why there was a radio playing in the movie in places it shouldn't have played. I turned up the volume and there it was, a man talking in spanish. I don't know how, but my VCR picked up some radio transmission. Funny thing is that the nearest spanish speaking radio station must be at least 3000 miles away in Spain? There's certainly none here in Finland. You can imagine how creepy it felt when I found the same man talking in my copy of The 6th Sense. There was never music on that broadcast, it was all just the same man talking in every tape that had the voice. Mystery to me !

Ok... HELP! What is EVP? I haven't ever heard of it!! (****scratches head in confusion...*****) How does it happen, and what do you do to use it?

EVP is short for Electronic Voice Phenomena. Basically the gist of it is people take voice recorders out to places that are thought to be haunted and either leave the recorder in a place away from everyone, or they will ask questions and see if there are any responses...Later on when playing a recording back there are sometimes voices that appear that were not heard when the original recording took place...voices of people that were not there.

I don't know what the truth of the matter is with EVP, but either way you look at it there are samples that I have heard that creep me out, real or not...

Here is a link to some samples, you can make your own decision: Link

Whoa! Freaky! Thank you for the update!

in the 6th sense the man talking in spanish is supposed to be there

All of you are afraid of trying it in your home, but that's based on if it actually exists. If EVP is real, and there are voices not heard in reality are heard on the tape, that would constitute as proof basically that ghosts and spirits exists. We would then have that information. So.....I'm not saying it can or can't happen, but if you actually GET voices that weren't really there on the recorder, forget being scared lol, you'd have a one way ticket to fame for proving something supernatural exists If I had a tape recorder I would totally try it, too bad I don't know of any haunted places though.

i seriously doubt we would be famous as there are thousands and thousands of evps already out there...and yet, there are still skeptics....hmmmm.....

too scared

Well, one of my Tape Recorders always I mean always had a werid sounds in the background, You'll hear like Whispering or Talking, When, I'm chating on my Messager with my Webcam, My friends will ask, "Hey (My name) who is that talking in the back ground?" Then I'll tell them that, There is no one with me. I'm usually home alone when I get home from school. But when I'm home, I'll be hearing some voices saying my name. One day when I was down in the basement, I heard some footsteps from upstairs, Then I thought I heard my Father calling my name. Then when I got upstairs, There was no one. I'll even look in the Garage to see if my Father's Truck is there or not. And also. When my mother is at home cooking usually. There will be times I were I thought I heard her calling my name out, then when I come I'll say "What?" Then she'll tell me that she never called my name. Heres another spooky story, In the morning I think about 5:36A.M. When I was getting my Hair ready. When I grabbed my Comb, It slip out of my hands and landed in the floor, so then I get down and pick it up and when I looked at the Morrior, I saw my head facing to my right side, so I look to my right side. Then All I see is a Dark Hallway, Then I looked back at the morror then I see myself facing right at me like all morroirs are supporse to do. Later on the years, My 21 year old Brother, Will sometimes ask me this question: "Hey (My name), have you been hearing voices around sometimes?" Then I'll lie to him saying that I hear nothing.

do you have to use a digital recorder or would a cassette recorder work too?

you can use a cassette recorded but be sure to use brand new tapes every time.

why do they need to be new?

It was a Cassette Recorder

I would assume to make sure that what(if anything) was being heard was not old voice or data that was not completely wiped out when the tape was re-recorded over...

yes, that and you don't want to also use tapes that are "worn out" from being used over and over, and mistaking sounds from moans and groans.

I saw this on a tv show years ago but never saw it again, apparently you can take a video camera and aim it at the tv with just static, and then record the static and when you replay the static frame by frame pictures of dead people show up on the tape. In the piece I saw they used new tapes nothing taped over and it was quite creepy. I don't own a video camera myself but I would love to try it out and see if it works...

Video camera?... that sounds dim, why didn't they use a VCR to record it? hmmm...

I myself have had this happen. Radio signals from all around the globe, and from space, are all around us. An old VCN with analog equipment should be able to pick up some random signals my the metals and machinery inside it alone. I remember as a child building a radio from a kit. It didn't get any local stations whatsoever, but it picked up 3 or 4 stations from hawaii quite clearly. I live in BC Canada. Strange eh?

i heard somewhere that the human brain is designed to look for faces in things that have no faces...ie static, pictures of leaves, clouds, etc...so i don't doubt people will see faces if they do that....

it wasn't like the face of the virgin mary on the grilled cheese that just sold for for almost thirty grand, these were like snapshots, very clear, not at all like pareidolic phenomena. And the reason they didn't just use a vcr is there was something about the recording of the white noise (static) by having the camera set up on a tripod in front of the tv that did it. The people on the show I watched had experimented with it several different ways and this was the most effective. What I found interesting is, that in spite of what I thought would happen, there were no pictures of scenery etc, like bleed through signals, this was like someone looking into the camera as if they were in a photo booth...just wish I could remember the name of the show I saw it on...could have been unsolved mysteries...lol

My hubby and I do it in our home and have recorded voices.Its very eerie to listen to,We have also done it in graveyards.

Do you have to walk aroudn when you do it.. cuz i have a stero with a cassett recorder on it coudl i just put in a cassett and record?

I found this about the videocamera-tv ghost thing on about.com

http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa102901b.htm

Do It Yourself
How can you see a ghost in your own home, even if you don't think it's haunted? There may be a way using a home video camera through a technique known as video feedback.

This page at Ghost-Hunter.com shows you how to set it up:

* Place your video camera on a tripod and aim it at your TV set.
* Connect the video camera to the TV so that what the video camera sees in shown live on the TV. In other words, you're taking video of what the camera is seeing on the TV.
* Zoom in so that the TV screen fills the video frame.
* Watch the show.
* You'll want to tape it at the same time so you can replay the video frame by frame.

What will you see? The technique induces video feedback, which can produce a lot of strange images - and in some cases what appear to be human faces. Are they ghosts? Several examples of this weirdness can be seen further down on this page.

Something to do with the feedback loop creating some "frequency" that ghosts "operate" at. Whatever that means.

I was just looking at a website before coming over here that talked about it.

You use a camera and a TV to get the endless loop by positioning the camera in front of the TV.

Then you go back and slowly pick out the images frame by frame....

http://theshadowlands.net/atwork/tva.htm

http://www.transcommunication.org/

There are a couple of urls to check out... I make no promises to their professionalism or accuracy...

Yeah, faces are one of the first things we recognize.

Another interesting aspect of a newborn's vision is that it allows for preference of human faces. In fact, there is a portion of the brain that seems to be dedicated to allowing for this facial recognition. Newborn babies are naturally attracted even to rough sketches of human faces. This specific recognition mechanism helps facilitate bonding between the mother and child, particularly during breastfeeding.
http://www.parentsplace.com/babies/physica..._100934,00.html

At home we use our stationary recorder.we have a small tape deck we take with us on our graveyard jaunts.You just have to remember to note other noises in your surroundings when you record.

Moe does not groove to white noise. The Backstreet Boy were the worst in white noise ever.

I just have to say that TSoldier_Wolf has the best avatar I have ever seen.