Are EVP's real or a hoax?

I have EVP's in my DAW.

Oh wait.... that just my singing (un-FX'd)

Play Bapu voice recording backwards and you'll hear the same gibberish a palindrome.

Guitarhacker

My favorite was Led Zepplin's live version of Stairway to Heaven, where the announcer  said.... "now, if we run that part backwards you can "clearly" hear the demon speaking through Plant as he says.... Satan my sweet Satan, I want to live it backwards like the Zep who's number is 666"   ok...........  if you heard it and the announcer never told you that, you'd never make that connection.

I've always been fascinated by backmasking. Some of it is intentional, some of it is pure coincidence. I did an entire web site dedicated to backmasking years ago. The "Satan my sweet Satan" line has been misinterpretted a lot. I had a cassette of what you are refering to. IIRC it was some preacher named Noel or Joel Landis.
 
The Beatles did a lot of it. The beginning of Taxman where they are counting in the song ... backwards, "Yes I know, all the Earth will know." Clear as a bell. The most incredible bit of backmasking I've ever heard though is by Queen. The acapelo part on The Prophet's Song is Freddy telling the story of how he caught his boyfriend cheating on him and names the dude!
 
What the heck, here is my old web site (It's only 5MB). Please, whoever downloads this, please don't post any of it on the web. Also, there is some explicit lyrics that may be offensive to some listeners. Unzip everything to a folder on your desktop and double click 'index.html'. You should see 3 folders and one file named 'index.html' You'll have to ok Active X when asked, it uses some old school web programming for the graphics.

On the back masking topic.... I heard a tune that someone actually took the time to learn the lyrics backwards.... then recorded it and then reversed it.... so the song was actually playing forward and you could hear the words....  it was interesting to hear it.

It was on a radio show (The Doctor Demento Show) that was on late at night and this guy played some pretty weird and at times some pretty cool tunes....
especially this one>> Pencil Neck Geek

So the ghosts are talking all the time, answering questions, chatting up a storm.

But the only time anyone can actually hear them is when some ghost hunters show up with their digital recorders?

Sorry, but that may be the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard - everyone knows ghosts prefer analog.

I can't comment on ghost hunting without violating the no-religion TOS clause.

bitflipper


I can't comment on ghost hunting without violating the no-religion TOS clause.

You can get around the TOS, if, instead of posting your comments here, you broadcast your psychic energy.

Just let me know when you're ready to start so I can get out my crystals and put on my ionizer bracelet and pyramid hat.

pdlstl


It's been my experience that the ones which are hoaxes tend to be hoaxes. The real ones are definitely real.

(or are they?)

You ever notice the "Celebrity" Ghost Story shows they have now always feature has-been celebrities.  Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

marcos69


You ever notice the "Celebrity" Ghost Story shows they have now always feature has-been celebrities.  Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

They're just a "ghost" of their former selves?

Crg


The ones you see on TV are hoaxes. The concept of the device is flawed and will not record how the dead communicate. Ghost Punters is bull****.

That's kind of what I was thinking.

The dead are buried in the earth, that is where their spirits reside. There is no recorder that will capture emotional images.

I'm not sure where I stand on it. I've had 2 things happen to me along the lines of the topic at hand, I guess that's why I'm so intrigued by EVP's and the paranormal.

marcos69


You ever notice the "Celebrity" Ghost Story shows they have now always feature has-been celebrities.  Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

That's because the current celebrities are still alive...  How do you captcha "voices from beyond the grave" from people who are still this side of the grave?
 
 

I hear what you are sayin' savageopera and agree 100%. What they claim is though, the voices are in a certain frequency range and are inaudible until the recording is filtered.

I always wanted to try it and see if I caught anything, but I'm half afraid to. I mean, if I did it and actually caught something in a recording, it would change my views on everything about life and death.

I used to live about a mile away from one of the places they investigated this season on that Ghost Hunters show on Sci Fi.

I used to watch Ghost Hunters all the time, mostly because I thought it was funny how they were misusing equipment they didn't understand. I can't say whether EVP exists or not but they have never presented any evidence that couldn't have been easily faked.

In one of their very first episodes They had some EVP that was supposedly from a little ghost girl. I downloaded the audio file from their website (back when they made their evidence public), cleaned it up a bit and clearly heard a man cuing a little girl to say her "EVP line" by whispering "NOW". There were other anomalies in their audio files that convinced me that all their EVP were faked for entertainment purposes. One that sticks in my memory is that even though this tape recorder was left running to record dead people in an empty room, you could clearly hear the tape deck shut off after the little girl whispered her line.

There are a lot of con-men, and con-women, making a lot of money out of the current ghost craze, but none of them has ever produced any kind of evidence that can be considered credible. Anyone can take a tape recorder, go into a house filled with a film crew and come out with EVP. I MIGHT take it seriously when someone records EVP in a laboratory with a dozen scientists standing around making sure nothing is faked.

They had one of those shows here at the USS Lexington - a former navy aircraft carrier that saw extreme action in WWII.

They were deep in the ship with the recorder running and the guys would be talking to each other-  stuff like " hey did you hear that" or "It's coming from over here".  But when they played the tape back you could hear the spook talking, but not hear the guys making all the noise when they were talking to each other.  Must have used a spook-pass filter.