February 2009 Archives

An essential piece of equipment we use on our ghost investigations is a digital voice recorder with an external microphone.

These are placed at various points at a haunted location in the hope that a spirit can utilise the electrical energy of the device to implant a message.

There has been interest in EVP ever since the first telephones and gramophones hit the Edwardian high street. It is thought the great American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (pictured) was convinced that the voices of the dead could be picked up on a particularly sensitive recording instrument. He was rumoured to be working on such a device when he passed over to the world of spirit himself.

A great many people since then have claimed to have heard or recorded unearthly, discarnate voices on different types of electronic gadgets. The phenomenon seems to have grown along with the technology.