I get a kick outta that team that takes a microphoned taperecorder to cemeteries and funeral parlors. The recordings they 'supposedly' get are sooo kool!
I'm planning a trip soon to Old Newgate Prison in Granby, CT. Hope to get some 'orbs' on my camera down in the copper mine where they kept/worked the prisoners.
I have to tell you, I think orbs are nothing more than dust particles. The sounds on tapes that people refer to as "EVPs" are sometimes interesting, but being somewhat skeptical, I would like to see one made in person. Anyone can stand in the middle of a cemetary late at night and whisper into their own tape recorder. Regardless, I love these stories.... and that's why I post them. Although I am skeptical, I do keep an open mind.
On a whim I grabbed my tape recorder and brought it with me mostly out of fun but I have to admit a little curiosity too! As we walked through the cemetery I held my tape recorder in front of me. Besides the brush under our feet, the birds singing and our voices there were no other noises.
Many of the graves in the small cemetery were unmarked and a few of the headstones were completely broken off leaving no mark of who was lying beneath them. And so towards the end of the walk my sister and I began to joke and hold the tape recorder up to the broken headstones saying, "Who's here? What's your name?" Of course we elicited no responses and so we finally left.
A few days later I finally sat down with my headphones and listened to what I thought was going to be a really boring recording of us walking through a cemetery, but what I heard instead made my hair stand on end. The "things" I heard came at the end of our walk just as we were about to leave. The first was when I jokingly held the recorder up to the tombstone and asked "What's your name?" It sounded as if someone had stuck their face up to the microphone and whispered "look" right into the recorder. I heard that same whisper "look" twice on the recorder. But the creepiest thing I heard was right after my sister went on a tangent about how bad the cemetery looked. She remarked that the graves should be dug up and moved and the cemetery burned (she's 17!), just after she says that something in the background says, "you can't burn".
Were those ghostly voices or just a glitch in my cassette tape? I don't know, the only two things I know for sure: those were NOT our voices and I'm still having fun believing!!