Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP)
Voices of the Dead

Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP)
Voices of the Dead



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 brief, 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.

A number of paranormal explanations have been suggested for the origin of EVP.


References to EVP have appeared in the reality television shows Paranormal State, Celebrity Paranormal Project, and Ghost Hunters, the fictional television series Supernatural, Medium and Ghost Whisperer and Hollywood films such as White Noise and The Sixth Sense.








The Most Horrific EVP Ever Recorded
This is an EVP that was obtained by Central New York Ghost Hunters in January 2007. The EVP has not been altered in any way, except it was edited for time.

CNY Ghost Hunters have tried to reduce the noise, amplify and "clean" it up, but found it difficult to make out exactly what was being said.