For two decades now, there has accrued a great deal of documentation and speculation about a method of tracking and recording voices of those who have passed on; these transmissions, captured by audio recorders and other everyday electronic devices, are known to the believers as Electronic Voice Phenomena, or EVP. The contact from the departed is accomplished through television, radio and computer frequencies— commonly referred to as “white noise”—which is then received and interpreted by people still living in the physical world.
EVP is much more than just a premise created by Hollywood filmmakers for the purpose of producing a supernatural thriller like White Noise. It is a highly researched, increasingly widely practiced yet little exposed paranormal phenomenon with devotees around the world. A search on the Internet for “EVP” will result in thousands of hits and web sites, many of which include photographs or audio and video clips from EVP encounters.
Research is being conducted on EVP within a variety of organizations around the world that use EVP for such purposes as hauntings investigations and grief management. According to these groups, thousands of people are recording evidence of communications with the dead on a daily basis. They also claim that in addition to the voices being captured through the white noise of television sets and radios, images of the people to whom these disembodied voices belong are regularly captured in photographs via a process known as Video or Photographic Instrumental Transcommunication. The common thread among these various groups is the firm belief that those in other dimensions are desperate to communicate with us and are using modern technology to do so.
More than likely the first web site one finds on a search for recordings and evidence of EVP sightings is that of the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (www.aaevp.com). The site is managed by Tom and Lisa Butler, directors of the Association, a married couple who happen to be spending a great deal of their time and energy in the universe known as the paranormal.
How did they get involved in the world of psychics, mediums and spirits from another dimension? “Well, actually,” says Lisa about what happened when she and her husband relocated to Kansas some 15 years ago, “we were corporate workers—Tom was writing a book, I was upper management—living in Kansas City, which is the kind of a town where you had to be quiet about paranormal things. But it’s also not California, it’s very humid, and there are only two months out of the year of really good weather, so you do a lot of reading and things like that.
“I came across a book called Voices Of Eternity by Sara Estep and I read it. And I thought, I knew it was real—I had a gut feeling that you could record paranormal voices on tape. And now that I look back at it—I was a corporate person, why in the world would I believe something so preposterous?—but I believe it and I will say it took about a year for me to get up the nerve to record because I wasn’t sure if I was going to bring something unwanted into the house.”
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