Electronic Voice Phenomena - or EVP, as it is more commonly known in the paranormal world - are sounds of static noise on the radio, or electronic recording media, that are interpreted by paranormal investigators as voices speaking words said to be uttered by ghosts or spirits of the dead. In other words, EVP's are unexplained voices captured on audio cassette tape or digital recorders that could not be heard at the time of the taping. Over the years, there have been many cases of such mysterious voices and sounds being captured on tape all over the world.
The general quality of the electronic voice recordings varies tremendously. Occasionally it is clear speech and perfectly audible; more often, it is faint and/or distorted. The EVP recordings often need to be amplified before anything can be made out at all.
It is a stark fact that many people have been shocked to learn that the so called "dead" - or "discarnate entities" - have been communicating with the living world through electronic devices since the early 1900s. Paranormal history is full of cases where certain individuals and psychic investigators claim to have heard mysterious "voices" speaking to them through such everyday electronic objects as a tape recorder.
Recording EVP has become a technique of those who attempt to contact the souls of dead loved ones, or during ghost hunting activities. In addition to deceased spirits, various paranormal investigators say that EVP could be due to psychic echoes from the past, psychokinesis unconsciously produced by living people, and the thoughts of aliens.
According to parapsychologist Konstantin Raudive, who popularized the idea, EVP are typically very short in duration, usually the length of a word or short phrase.
Skeptics of the paranormal attribute the voice-like aspect of the sounds to apophenia (finding of significance or connections between insignificant or unrelated phenomena), auditory pareidolia (interpreting random sounds into voices in their own language which might otherwise sound like random noise to a foreign speaker), artifacts due to low-quality equipment, and simple hoaxes. Likewise, some reported EVP can be attributed to radio interference or other well-documented phenomena.
Portable digital voice recorders are the main instrument of choice for EVP investigators. Because these devices are very susceptible to Radio Frequency (RF) contamination, EVP enthusiasts sometimes try to record EVP in RF- and sound-screened rooms. However, in order to record EVP, there has to be noise in the audio circuits of the device used to produce the EVP. Therefore, those who attempt to record EVP often use two recorders that have differing quality audio circuitry and rely on noise heard from the poorer quality instrument to generate EVP.
Investigation of EVP is the topic of thousands of Internet message boards, both regional and national. Many paranormal investigators, equipped with electronic gear such as EMF meters, video cameras and audio recorders, investigate reportedly haunted locations, trying to detect visual and audio evidence of paramormal activity. Many use portable recording devices in an attempt to capture EVP.
Stories of EVP have appeared in the reality television shows Paranormal State, Celebrity Paranormal Project, and Ghost Hunters, the fictional television series Supernatural and Medium, and Hollywood films such as White Noise and The Sixth Sense.
Anyone can attempt EVP. Just go to a reportedly haunted place, set up your tape recorder, and you're away. Whether you'll be successful or not in capturing "ghostly voices" is, of course, another matter!
The Amazon Kindle wireless electronic reading device is an amazing new product now in its second generation. The device is 8 inches long with a 6 inch screen it is 0.36 inches wide and weighs just 10.2 ounces! You might think that there is nothing remarkable in that, but that makes it smaller than many paperbacks and lighter!
The really remarkable thing is that this device is a 3G electronic device so it can update and receive books and magazine subscriptions over the wireless telephone network, you will never lose a book again, because even if you lose the device if it is insured and you replace it you can download all of your books from Amazon again. In fact once set up your new Kindle will do it automatically!
A single battery charge lasts about a week with the wireless turned on or 2 weeks if you turn the wireless off. The device has a high resolution black and white screen (like a book) and has a paper like look to it. It has a 14 tone Grey scale and high resolution. It can be read even in bright sunlight. The Kindle has 2 GBytes of internal storage of which 1.4 GBytes is available for your publications. This is sufficient for approximately 1,500 paperbacks, so you can subscribe to newspapers and magazines and still have plenty of space for your favorite novels.
There is a larger version of the Kindle available for those who prefer a larger print format which has a 9.7 inch display, this one is 10.4 inches by 7.2 inches by 0.36 inches and it has 16 shades of Grey and holds 3,500 books!
Amazon provides a full range of accessories that include night lights and covers to protect the screen, each device comes with a full one year warranty and a mains powered battery charger as standard.
At first I thought it was just a gimmick but think of the library that you can carry with you, you need never leave home without your Bible, Dictionary, favorite novels, recipe books etc. etc. You have never been able to carry so tmc tomtom many books at once. Best sellers off the New York Times list go for about $9.99 so over time you will more than pay for the Kindle in the savings you get. Amazon are adding new titles all the time and already have most of the major magazines and newspapers available. I sincerely believe that in time we will all be reading this way.
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