Electronic Voice Phenomena - EVP

    With this phenomena a researcher uses a tape recorder, cassette player, digital recorder or similar equipment to capture paranormal voices and sounds that are not audible when the recording is made. Since EVP's conception a multitude of voices have been received, these often being in reply to a request or question. A good percentage of these voices have been identified as belonging to deceased loved ones, friends and relatives. However there have been occasions where they have appertained to alien beings.

    The first experiments with this form of communication took place in the 1920s with various electronic and mechanical devices, but it was not until 1956, when voices were recorded onto tape for the first time by Raymond Bayless and Attila von Szalay, that EVP was born. Three years later Swedish documentary film maker Fredrich Jürgenson unintentionally captured voices whilst taping birdsong outdoors. This event caused him to embark on twenty-five years of successful research. In 1965 Latvian psychologist and philosopher Konstantin Raudive started experiments which led him to record over 72,000 voices.

    These remarkable results encouraged others to experiment and over the decades caused EVP to become a global phenomenon, some of the most notable researchers being: Sarah Estep, Erland Babcock, Mark Macy, Tom and Lisa Butler - USA, Jacques Blanc-Garin - France, Jutta Liebmann - Germany, Anabela Cardoso - Portugal, Sonia Rinaldi - Brazil, Raymond Cass, George Bonner, Tina Laurent, Alexander MacRae, Linda Williamson, Judith Chisholm - UK.

EVP Experimenters

    Tina Laurent        Linda Williamson