EVP Listening Experiment 2

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EVP Listening Experiment

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Public Participation Welcome

We have closed this experiment and are analyzing the results, which will be posted here in the near future. Thank you all who have participated.

A common complaint from the public is that many Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) just sound like noise, and that no one would hear the same words unless they were prompted to do so before hand. The skeptical community likes to refer to this as auditory pareidolia, which simply means that a person will sometimes find meaning where there is none.

There are many reasons why EVP are difficult to understand, if you take a few minutes to review the commonly noted characteristics of EVP in A Proposed Wikipedia Entry for EVP, you will see that ... well, that EVP are not normal speech. It is a wonder that they exist at all.

People presenting EVP examples to the public usually tell the listener what to expect because even a Class A example can be difficult to understand if the listener has not learned to look for words in odd places. For instance, an excellent technique for examining a possible utterance is to select the suspected wave form and listen to it many times. If words are present to be understood, the listener's mind will sometimes, eventually recognize them. For instance, look at the example, "Think Positively ... instantly away," here. As you can see in the associated screen print of the wave form, the phrase is spoken in short bursts of sound, so select the first one with your sound management program and listen to it over and over until you find, "Think positively."

Playing these for the public does not afford the opportunity to teach the listener how to hear EVP and few web site visitors will bother to try so hard. So if you decide to participate in the following online experiment, please spend a little time listening to each example. We are not going to tell you what the examples say, only that each does say something.

To participate, just listen to each example in turn and write down what you think is said in the provided window.

EVP Listening Experiment 2

(Phase 2)

These are the same examples as Experiment 2, Phase 1. One of these six examples is normal speech. Please indicate which you believe is spoken by a physical person

Please listen to each EVP Example by clicking on the associated speaker and then write what you heard in the provided window.

"I Survived" recorded by Martha Copeland

"It's Frank" Recorded by Karen Mossey

This is not an EVP

"Will you tell me the grump's name" spoken by Martha Copeland.

"Were still in spirit" recorded by Vicki Talbott

"Tell her its Satan" recorded by Martha Copeland

"It's Jamie" recorded by Ginny Sawer

We have sufficient data about background, so we have suspended this part of the experiment to make this easier on you. Thanks so much for the help!

Education Level:

High School Diploma

4 year College degree

Masters Degree

Doctorate

Primary subject of Education:

Music and Arts	Humanities	Business	Science
Agriculture	Medicine	Education	Construction
Communication	Sports and Recreation	Other

Background in EVP:

No Experience

Have studied a little

Have recorded and heard EVP

Opinion about EVP:

Imagination and should be ignored

Imagination but should be studied

May involve undefined principles of nature

May provide proof of survival after physical death

For spam control, please type the number of cats you see into this box:

Thank you for participating in this experiment. We will post the results here once we have received a reasonably large number of responses.


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