[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Ping

[AndyStevenson]

"Rorschach audio"

I think thats probably the most accuracte description :)

[AlbertWang]

I know I have heard dead people's voices on tapes.

Right now I'm hearing Waylon Jennings. Singing with Willie.

[LibFreeOrDie]

And I hear voices thru that filling in my molar...

(Reminds me of 35 years ago, when everyone sat around listening for "Paul is dead" on the Beatles' White Album.)

[null and void]

Psychologists quickly recognized EVP as just another example of the brain's penchant for making sense even of the patently senseless.

If you torture the data enough, it will confess...

[Theresawithanh]

So, they're saying that when I try to find a station on my radio or in my car or at work and I get the in-between static that I'm hearing dead people? Some of those dead people can still play musical instruments! Amazing! Creepy, but amazing!

[NonLinear]

Just how powerful the effect could be with sounds was made clear more than 60 years ago by BF Skinner, the Harvard psychologist who found that nonsensical sequences of syllables led people to hear "words" bearing no relation at all to the original sounds.

Hey, isn't "Skinner" the head honcho at DU? Amazing - the DU "Skinner" seems to find that nonsensical sequences of syllables are proof of vote fraud in Ohio! Coincidence? I don't think so!

[_Jim]

As a senior investigations engineer at BBC Radio, Ian Astbury is all too familiar with EVP. Sometimes it pops up on national radio ? such as the now-famous incident in February last year when a ghostly, whispering voice was heard in the background of an interview Sandi Toksvig had conducted in a haunted castle, broadcast on Radio 4's Excess Baggage.

Applying Occam's razor I say it was some wiseacre 'ham' (or some other capable individual in the radio arts) doing a number on either the audio lines, the STL (studio to transmiter link) or directly on Radio 4's broadcast frequency; it wouldn't be hard to do any particular one -

- and now he's having one heck of a laugh at their expense!

[k2blader]

I tend to agree with Baruss that's it's all about perception. That and the fact that people enjoy deceiving themselves.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

It works better if you play the tapes backwards.:)

[Smokin' Joe]

KX2R calling CQ......KX2R calling CQ.......Is there anyone out there?.....Is there anyone?....

LOL! Next thing you know they'll be looking for messages in alphabet soup.

[Katie M]

Hey, I'm writing an article on White Noise for my journalism class and was just wondering if anyone at all knew what the exact quote was by Thomas Edison in the beginning of the movie so I could incorporate that into my article. I already saw the movie, but didn't get the chance to actually write the quote down. So if anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.

-Katie