An extract from The Ghost Orchid: an introduction to EVP detailing the history and research around EVP (electronic voice phenomena), ghostly recordings believed to be from beyond the grave.
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Voices of unknown origin appearing on radio frequencies were first noticed in Scandinavia by the military in the 30s and were put down at the time to secret Nazi transmitters. But the voices spoke in unknown and mixed tones. And after the war, no records of secret Nazi transmissions ever came to light. The voices didn’t stop after the war. But their repeatability and their transient nature precluded study. That is, until the tape recorder came into common usage in the 50s. A group of radio hams in Chicago studied the strange transmissions. Male and females voices speaking in polyglot mode and lyrical tones. But it was not until 1959 that a Russian-born Swedish citizen radio and TV producer and film maker Frederich Jurgenson noticed intrusions on tape and commenced his own systematic study. A disturbing fact soon emerged. The voices zeroed in onto the Swede, addressing him by name, revealing a knowledge of his thoughts and actions and claiming to be the voices of deceased friends and acquaintances. The news spread rapidly. And soon, experimenters and scientists all over the world were attempting to duplicate Jurgenson’s work. Prominent among them was the Latvian Psychologist, Konstantin Raudive. The effect on parapsychologists was dramatic, accustomed to investigating the blind forces of the poltergeist and endless and somewhat boring card and dice experiments that were confronted at once with living voices, which answered back. Speech being a mark of intelligence and a highly structured artifact. Taken by surprise, the British Parapsychologists, without conducting experiments, rejected the objectivity of the voices, explaining them as breakthrough from taxis, police messages, or simply mechanical noises in the tape recorder. But their European counterparts were more cautious and possibly, with greater technical resources, they soon found out that they were indeed confronted with voices of unknown origin on tape
(Maybe I'm just feeling crushed)
(Maybe I'm just feeling crushed)
(Maybe I'm just feeling crushed)
(Maybe I'm just feeling crushed)
(Maybe I'm just feeling crushed)
(Maybe I'm just feeling crushed)
Maybe I'm just feeling crushed (Maybe I'm just feeling crushed)
Maybe I'm just feeling crushed (Maybe I'm just feeling crushed)
Maybe I'm just feeling crushed
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(I tried to convey to you, before you die, an indication of survival after death, but you didn’t-incomprehensible-)
Empty Churches was written by Giles Corey.
Empty Churches was produced by Giles Corey.
Giles Corey released Empty Churches on Sat Apr 30 2011.