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WHITE NOISE and Electronic Voice Phenomena: Time to talk about this
www.whitenoisemovie.com ^ | 12-15-04 | Houmatt

Posted on 12/15/2004 10:05:47 AM PST by Houmatt

On January 7, the supernatural thriller White Noise opens nationwide. It deals with the very real subject of Electronic Voice Phenomena, or EVP: The recording of the spirits of the dead.

Being an enthusiast of the supernatural since I was a child, this of course fascinates me and I intend to see the film.

However, I do not believe I have ever seen any topics posted here regarding the issues of life after death, ghosts, and EVP. I am truly curious what others feel about this subject and hope to get some kind of discussion going.

Until then, download and get a look at the creepy trailer for this movie. Definitely first in line for this puppy.....


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: artbell; bs; callingartbell; evp; ghosts; oooweeeoooo

1 posted on 12/15/2004 10:05:47 AM PST by Houmatt
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To: Houmatt

I am having enough trouble with hearing the dead spirits of the living.


2 posted on 12/15/2004 10:08:38 AM PST by PoorMuttly ("The right of the People to be Muttly shall not be infringed,")
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To: Houmatt

Don't tell Jesse Jackson...he'll insist that their votes be counted. ;)


3 posted on 12/15/2004 10:09:54 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Naw ... they're ALREADY counting those EVPers votes. :)

"Who did you say you voted for????"


4 posted on 12/15/2004 10:10:52 AM PST by TexasGreg ("Democrats Piss Me Off")
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To: Houmatt

Several dead postings have been right here on FR. You just have to put on special glasses to see them.


5 posted on 12/15/2004 10:15:21 AM PST by blackdog (May Islam meet Tennyson's "Ninth Wave" in my lifetime.)
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To: Houmatt

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1286716/posts


6 posted on 12/15/2004 10:15:34 AM PST by green pastures
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To: Houmatt

Seriously though, at what frequencies are the EVP's? I run a spectrum analyzer, a shielded room, and antenae's with amplifiers which detect from 1HZ all the way up to a few GHZ. I have not found any voices yet. Lot's of chatter from blenders, coffee grinders, triac switching devices, vacum cleaners, etc.....but nothing yet from dead folks. That is unless all the other stuff is drowning them out?


7 posted on 12/15/2004 10:20:05 AM PST by blackdog (May Islam meet Tennyson's "Ninth Wave" in my lifetime.)
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To: Houmatt
Maybe digital recorders in the polling places will get to the bottom of haunted voting booths. (sarcasm off)

I saw an ad for it, and thought it might be interesting.

8 posted on 12/15/2004 10:25:50 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: blackdog

I think you're just missing some tin-foil. That should clear your reception.


9 posted on 12/15/2004 10:26:57 AM PST by mike182d
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To: mike182d
Read this. Does it remind of you of anyone?
10 posted on 12/15/2004 10:44:12 AM PST by Houmatt (Democrats eat urinal cakes.)
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To: blackdog
I would recommend going here.
11 posted on 12/15/2004 10:45:12 AM PST by Houmatt (Democrats eat urinal cakes.)
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To: Houmatt
When they weren't dead, most dead people talked. Now that they're dead, they're not talking—or walking or stalking or balking or caulking.
12 posted on 12/15/2004 10:55:04 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: Houmatt

I don't believe in any of that stuff, and why don't I believe in it? It's quite simple:

1. Most cases are of something not heard by the naked ear, if you will. Why not? If ghosts really wanted to talk to someone, don't you think they'd talk in a way that *people* could hear it, and not in a way that, when they were alive, even they couldn't have heard it?

2. The cases where one did hear something as was being recorded are mostly of indistinguishable "moans" and "groans" and other similar types of noises. Noises, not vocalizations. Why, if a ghost wants to talk to someone, wouldn't they use at least SOME human language, instead of indistinguishible noise?

I think you can see the trend here. Bascially for me, unless we have a recording (or it happens live, for me) of a ghost or some other "spectral entity" saying clearly, "Hi, I'm a ghost, and yes I'm really dead. Here, let me show you by walking through this wall too"....unless we get something like that, all this stuff about white noise and "EVP's" are nothing more than garbage to me.

It's like an abstract painting; you see (or in this case hear) what you want, not what's really "there", which is *nothing*.


13 posted on 12/15/2004 11:03:30 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: Houmatt
I dunno about EVP, but here on the Free Republic we have EFP, Electronic Freeping Phenomenon.

If a poster provides a vanity post and fails to spell check his rantings before providing it for comment, you can often pick through the bad capitalizations and puctuations to identify a message that a deceased loved one is trying to send. These are frequently found in the rantings of DU trolls, where there are a significant number of spelling errors. Here is an example:

...i am tired of you bush
L oosers! i am
E speshally sick and
T ired of hearing bout
... the constitooshin and how bad
M uslems are. why cant
E vryone just love
... each other? i am
V ery tired of this war for
O il, this stoopid
T error war, ignoring the
E nviroment and poor
...peeple. i think you guys are
D um. dan rather on the
E vning news told this to my dead
M other, and she trust dan rather!

14 posted on 12/15/2004 11:04:59 AM PST by kidd
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Don't tell Jesse Jackson...he'll insist that their votes be counted. ;)

Or accuse this movie of being racist because it only portrays 'white' noise. It should be 'non-color specific' noise.

15 posted on 12/15/2004 11:17:20 AM PST by cowboyway (My Hero's have always been cowboys.)
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To: Houmatt

Hello,
I finally registered after lurking for an "eternity".
I love FR!!
Thanks for posting the topic, Houmatt.
As I heard a lady on TV say the other day:
"You may not believe in it, BUT TRY IT".
:D
Charli


16 posted on 12/17/2004 12:02:15 PM PST by bolta_lightnin
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