A Basic history, theories, and a new approach

 Electronic
Voice Phenomena (or EVP) has been studied as far back as Thomas Edison, in which
he was developing a machine that would allow people to communicate with the
deceased. Unforcntly, Edison died be for he
was able to finish his last invention.

EVP
first came to the attention of the wider audience in 1959 when the Swedish
filmmaker, Friedrich Juergenson was recording bird song in a forest. When
Juergenson replayed his tape he claimed to have Heard
a male voice discussing birdsong at night. He further claimed to have heard the
voice of his dead mother on such recordings.

This
discovery led to Juergenson producing many hundreds of recordings over a period
of about four years, attempting to capture what he claimed were the voices of
spirits on tape. At the culmination of the period of recordings Juergenson
published his findings in a book entitled “Voices from the Universe” in 1964.
This was quickly followed by a further book entitled “Radio Contact with the
Dead”.

Juergenson’s
second book was examined by a Latvian psychologist, Dr Konstantin Raudive who
was, in the first instance, quite skeptical of Juergenson. However, Raudive
conducted his own EVP experiments and, in time, claimed to have recorded voices
also. Since then, many people have recorded voices on audiotape and, as
technology has progressed, digital media and the collation of EVP samples has
become common place in the activities of those investigating the paranormal.
Indeed, since the 1960s EVP was recognized, by many, as a legitimate form of
paranormal research.

Even with the advancement in technology, the way EVP’s are
recorded has not changed much over the years. 
The basics for EVP recordings are as simple as a microphone and a cassette
recorder.  Now more people are using digital
recorders, more for the reasons, that there are no mechanical parts to make
noise that could be confused with an EVP, and you never need to buy new blank
cassettes.  Other people have been
experimenting with using white noise and pink noise at the time of there
recording with mixed results.

It is a very common belief that sprits are energy based
beings, with this it is common understanding that they do not have any vocal
cords to communicate with as we do.  I
have come across with the idea the since sprits are made up of energy, it is possibly
that when they try to talk to us there energy gives off magnetic fluxuations.  That would explain how they are recorded with
out us hearing them.  Microphones are
made up of a coil of wire called a voice coil witch is attached to a thin
plastic film and then a magnet is placed in the center of the coil.  When sound waves hit the plastic film they
cause it and the coil to vibrate, the vibration of the coil in presence of the
magnet causes small electoral pulses to be created and then recorded on the
cassette.  It is also possible that these
energy fluxuatons giving off by a sprit when they try to commuacate with us can
also be picked up by the coil of a microphone and recorded.  Since a germanium diode is not able to record
sound as we know it, then the recording with a such a device should be
silent.  But it is not, I have gotten
some interesting recordings from my diode based mic so far.

 Germanium is a crystal type element that was used in early
electronics and was very popular in crystal radio sets for its ability to
receive energy from a basic am tuner and produce an audio signal with out the
use of a power source of any kind.  No, my
recorder is not receiving am radio station, it has neither antenna nor does it
has a radio tuner hooked to it. So that leaves out the possibility.  I have also experamented with a radio transmitter, other than having the diode less than a foot from the antenna, it recives nothing from the transmitter.

If any one would like to try some of there own experaments and share info, just
send me a e-mail jmbbkb@windstream.net   There are a large variety of germanium
diodes that are out there, some of which would be more sensitive to this sort
of use, since germanium has been mostly replace by silicon in electronics they
are getting harder to find, at least around here. For those of you who may want
to try this as well I have a list of diodes to try and the type I am working
with right now.

Happy Hunting

Jason M. Bieber

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