Another Theory
This refers to the noises/voices heard on a tape
recorder that are not
audible to the human ear. Until fairly recently, I was not a advocate of
this technique. In fact, I thought it might be a waste of time. All of
the sounds I had picked up through the years sounded the same. A lot like
"help me Rhonda" played in a too slow speed. The recordings from other
sources did not sound a whole lot different and certainly did not change
my opinion.
The most important tool a ghost hunter can have is an open mind. When a
woman on a haunted ranch in Texas kept telling me what was happening on
her recorder, I thought we might as well try for ourselves. You just
never know. What happened that first night has forever changed my mind
about this phenomena.
This was a non-descript, ordinary farm house, the kind you could drive by
with out so much as a second look. Although I know it is not true, I keep
wanting a haunted house to look like one, like something too horrifying
to enter alone, with bats and rattling chains and insane laughter coming
from behind heavy wooden doors. Like serial killers, they usually look
normal and boring. I'm not all that sure I could really go into my
idealized haunted house anyway.
Under a controlled and monitored situation, a voice activated tape
recorder was left in what was considered the haunted front bedroom. This
was the room that was supposed to have the most activity, from
apparitions to audible voices. The owner had already obtained several
EVP's, which I politely listened to, but couldn't really understand. We
left the recorder cushioned on the bed, and closed the two doors that
entered the room. It was late afternoon, and all participants discussed
the haunting of the farm outside at a picnic table. The room was in plain
view at all times, and no one was out of our sight. We gathered
information, and the owner showed us different areas around the house
where voices had been heard by many people. At all times, we could see
the bedroom.
After a couple of hours, we checked the recorder. Indeed, the tape had
advanced quite a bit. After rewinding, I heard the voice that changed my
own perception of EVP's. Before the voice began, there was a series of
electric pings. Loud. Then, the noises of something being scooted across
the floor and children laughing. After that a deep black male voice said,
quite clearly, "Go on, get on outta here now." Not only was I speechless,
I felt a little shocked. A common enough reaction to having the doors of
perception blown open I guess. We have had voice analysis experts, for
what that's worth listen to the tape and will have it posted in the near
future. Since that time, many clear, voices have been recorded. There are
both male and female, white, black, and Spanish, and one that sounds like
it came straight from the Bronx.
The farm is located on an old Freedman's town and has been in the same
family since its founding. The woman that owns the ranch, now heads our
Hill Country Division. Be advised that the ranch is on private property
and the owner is well armed!
Now we are left with how in the world does this happen??? Our guess is
that the voices of "spirits" are just beyond our hearing, much like they
are just beyond our vision. There seems to be a constant of magnetic
energy associated with the unexplained, which would enable the magnetic
tape of recorders to record that which we can not hear, but can often
feel. We have heard authenticated tapes, those in which we have
ascertained that the participants aren't completely pathological, and
don't speak through their other selves, that contain both present voices
and voices of people not visually evident.