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.....
I am having enough trouble with hearing the dead spirits of the living.
Don't tell Jesse Jackson...he'll insist that their votes be counted. ;)
Naw ... they're ALREADY counting those EVPers votes. :)
"Who did you say you voted for????"
Several dead postings have been right here on FR. You just have to put on special glasses to see them.
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?
I saw an ad for it, and thought it might be interesting.
I think you're just missing some tin-foil. That should clear your reception.
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*.
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:
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Or accuse this movie of being racist because it only portrays 'white' noise. It should be 'non-color specific' noise.
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
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