IMMORTAL WHISPERS - Electronic efforts to contact the dead

Over 30 years ago I met a woman called Sarah Estep while I was living in America. She played me some of her recorded tape utterances, later to be known as EVP (electronic voice phenomenon). That day changed my life forever. On my own recorder, following her instructions, I soon heard a breathy `Tina`, a sound I hadn`t made. I was on a roll and I haven`t stopped.

Starting with the beginning of the last century Edison, Marconi and Tesla all spent the last years of their lives trying to develop devices for communicating with spirit. One of the outstanding public exibitions, in New York, in studios that later became Decca, 4 well-known parapsychologists and 2 electrical engineers, under rigidly controlled conditions, played many paranormal voices. These voices also moved their voice levels high up into cycles which were way beyond the range of any human being. (I discovered that on playback, slowing the speed down, captures many EVP voices or noises that were not heard at normal speed).

The EVP has a long and colourful history and I have preserved as well as I was able to capture the voices of most of the well-known researchers into the field.

They are: Sarah Estep, Jules & Maggie Harsch-Fischbach, William Welch, Konstantin Raudive, Maurice Grosse, David Lothamer, Sam Alsop, Raymond Cass,

Special mention should be given to:

MUSIC OF THE SPHERES- celestial music recorded in 1969 in Austria by Paul and Edith Affolter. Following instructions by a being calling himself Thomas Edison they captured the most beautiful harmonious singing by a multitude of voices that I have ever heard.

CHORAL SINGING: Beautiful voices which are always found at the end of Italian researcher Marcello Bacci`s group recording.

`MARY`TYPE VOICE:Heard in beautiful singing mode, these voices were captured by Raymond Cass. In a couple of rather compelling messages she is sad and reproachful and accuses the human race of its inhumanity and sometimes warns of dire consequences.

SINGING VOICES: Received by Sarah Estep, myself and others: WE ARE COME, WE ARE WITH YOU, WE COME DOWN WITH YOU etc

SAI BABA BI-LOCATES: The Indian sage Sai Baba impresses his voices on Raymond Cass`s tape, from a great distance, seven years before Cass knew to whom the voice belonged.

COMPARISON TAPE: Konstantin Raudive`s voice, pre-mortem and post-mortem including when he called me, after death, on my telephone.

SPACE VOICES: Sarah Estep has had hundreds of communications from cosmic beings.

REVERSE VOICES: Many EVP utterances are to be found on the reverse side of non-magnetic reel-to-reel recording tape, and also on my cassette tape.

and last but not least:

BEETHOVEN IS STILL PLAYING! Beethoven spoke a few times to Sarah Estep before he is heard playing part of his MOONLIGHT SONATA, along with musical spirit friends of his, against a backdrop of an earthly storm. Very, very spooky to hear.

If anyone would like quick instructions on how to record for EVP I`ll talk again later,

Love,

Tina Laurent

I find EVP a fascinating phenomenon, Tina, and am very interested in any info you have on the topic!

Jim

Me to please. Any links to recordings on tinternet Tina?

Jim:

I`ll get back to you a bit later.

Katy: I don`t think you will find any links to the above-mentioned EVP. As far as I am aware I`ve been the only researcher interested in preserving the past EVP. (Which to my mind is far superior than the EVP of today. There`s too much ego involved with today`s groups)

However, if you can give me an address for you I will send you the collection of above voices which I have on cassette tape. (I don`t use a CD machine but a friend did copy IMMORTAL WHISPERS onto a CD and so I have a couple of those)

It`s really only practical to use a cassette tape recorder because, on playback, you can stop and rewind at any point when you keep listening over and over.

Tina

Wow thanks so much Tina; will email snail mail address to you. I still have a cassette player too.

Okeydokey, Katy, got the other 2 messages and your address.

Be glad to send a small package off, hopefully tomorrow, Tina

Cheers Tina.
KK

It`s my pleasure, Katy, it`s about time that new ears listened to these spirit voices!

There seems to be at least one website devoted to it. Is this yours Tina?
EVP UK

Obiwan, there are many groups with websites these days. You won`t find most, if any, of the EVP mentioned in IMMORTAL WHISPERS talked about or even known about. Today`s modern groups seem to think that modern equipment must be used when all is needed is a recorder & headphones.

My only website, sadly neglected at the moment, is PARAPLASMS.COM and it concerns skotography and spirit photography.

Thanks Tina.

MsEVP wrote:Jim:

I`ll get back to you a bit later.

Katy: I don`t think you will find any links to the above-mentioned EVP. As far as I am aware I`ve been the only researcher interested in preserving the past EVP. (Which to my mind is far superior than the EVP of today. There`s too much ego involved with today`s groups)

However, if you can give me an address for you I will send you the collection of above voices which I have on cassette tape. (I don`t use a CD machine but a friend did copy IMMORTAL WHISPERS onto a CD and so I have a couple of those)

It`s really only practical to use a cassette tape recorder because, on playback, you can stop and rewind at any point when you keep listening over and over.

Tina

Sorry to hear that the golden days of EVP may be in the past. But glad to hear that there's no need for a lot of equipment.

MsEVP wrote:Today`s modern groups seem to think that modern equipment must be used when all is needed is a recorder & headphones.

No need for a short wave radio, then?

absolutely not. I`ll get back to you later on tonight.

Katy: tape must be listened to with headphones at first. Sent off today.

Hi Jim:

As brief as possible here`s a few words on recording procedure. It`s advisable at the beginning to have a regular time and place to record. A short session of about 5 mins on a daily basis is much better than one long recording once a week. It`s a good thing to start with a short prayer and an invitation to all who can hear you to come in a spirit of love and friendship onto your tape. Speak with pauses in between your words and pause a few seconds after each question to that `they` can have their say.

EQUIPMENT: I started out, 30 years ago, with a hand-held stereo cassette recorder with an in-built tape counter. It`s the one I still use today. There MUST be a REVIEW key as well as a digital tape counter. (Review enables you to quickly rewind the tape to a suspected EVP utterance so that you can keep repeating it and the counter, of course, enables you to `log` any EVP so that you can save them for future reference and hearing.

I`LL SEND THIS NOW SO THAT I DON`T LOSE IT

MORE FOR JIM:

MICROPHONE: is useful for bypassing the in-built mike and for dropping into wells and crevices etc when needed.

HEADPHONES: should always be used on playback and you should listen with eyes closed to allow for extreme concentration. The small in-the-ear types are perfect.

BACKGROUND SOUND SOURCE. Well, the EVP entities probably communicate by one of three methods:
1) spirit speaks directly into the mike
2) EVP is transmitted from a central transmitting agency like a telephone exchange, where the taper functions as a receiving station, an antenna, using the equipment and their unique individual electrical energy.
3) Psychokinetically- that is, electronic impulses are sent out by the mind and registered as speech on tape. SO
some kind of background noise will be needed to allow the spirits to manifest by making use of the energy of that noise.. (Saying this, some of the loudest voices on IMMORTAL WHISPERS have had NO background noise at all). This can be: water running from a tap, sea, river etc, traffic, rustling of paper. I used to have Radio Wales, speaking on Welsh, and also tried the Airband channel as the only people allowed to use this frequency are pilots and those in the control tower. Try around and find whatever suits you. Of course, just how loud or soft to have the radio is something that you will learn with time- not TOO loud and not TOO soft. You may want to try white noise, or `mush`, a jumble of foreign language stations usually at night-time, but it should ALWAYS be a fresh, incoming signal.

PLAYBACK: Listening for EVP is an art that must be learned & extreme concentration is needed as many entities speak in soft, whispery tones, often ON TOP of your own voice and also background sound source.

Not only can the voice entities make themselves heard by modulating noise, they can also wipe out some content of normal radio transmission or the taper`s voice and substitute their own messages. They do this with speech, music and Morse code.

Good luck Jim, and please ask me anything else I may have missed.

Have you found that the time of day, or atmosperic conditions, make any difference?

Jim, didn`t know you were there. Well, I wish that I could say Yes, they are strongest with the full moon etc, but NO, I can honestly say that I NEVER noticed time or weather affected the transmissions.

I have a cassette tape recorder, I have a headphone in my locker that I hope to retrieve later this week, so I guess i just have to select a white noise or other energy source, and I'm good to go.

I wonder how (if you could find a working one) an old battery-powered transistor radio would do? Portable, too, for taking it to outside sites.

Jim

Sure, Jim, you mean for giving some background noise.? Anything that makes a noise will do, but the obviously not too loud that it covers the `whispers` that you often hear, especially in the beginning. On a `site`, I imagine, there is plenty of environmental or man-made noise. No need for radio. However, listening back for EVP is an art that you have to learn. Concentration is crucial. Unless, perhaps, you are one of the lucky ones who has more `psychic` energy and the spirit entities can manifest themselves more easily. You won`t know till you try.
Patience and perseverance, Jim.

In the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in London is the whispering gallery. Acoustics are such that you can whisper something and someone half way round the dome can make out what it is as long as you whisper it at the wall and they are listening with their ear close to the wall. The sound somehow travels round the curve of the dome
Now there's always a background hum from visitors in the nave below.
I mention this because the guides in there do say that if you listen hard enough you 'might hear more than your friend whispering to you'.
Now that could well be a guide's joke for the tourists but then again... St Paul's, like many London churches is said to be 'haunted'.
Just wondered if electronic kit is necessary in all cases Tina.

Hi Katy, not sure what you mean by `electronic kit` but if you want to capture permanently any extraneous paranormal voices then you certainly need a tape recorder.

Some places are definitely more susceptible for capturing EVP, call them haunted if you will. There`s a decrepit old castle near here where I can usually be sure to get layers (in time) of spirit voices, especially at night when no-one is around. Only background sound source is a river running quietly a distance away.

Thanks Tina, I get the picture. I was wondering if voices only came via EVP see now that EVP can record and 'store' voices that are already 'there' in some sense.

The EVP recordings sound amazing. Whilst I've always had a greater leaning towards spirit photography, probably because of my amateur photographic endevours... EVP has also been something of interest.
My only 'attempts' to date have been using a digital recorder (little Olympus) which I then transfer to a computer and try listening to them via headphones. All without any success I might add.