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Two Way EVPs?

Yeah_Right

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I was listening to Art Bell's Coast to Coast am on Halloween night, which is when he has callers phone in with ghost stories. The first few hours were dedicated to a group called "Spiricom", that, in the early 80's, purported to be able to have two way communications with the dead. I listened hard to the examples that Mr. Bell played, and I could make out a few words here and there, but ultimately it was hard to follow the apparent spirtual conversation. My question is has anyone ever heard of these experiments? Here's a link to the organizations website http://www.worlditc.org/h_07_spiri_000_007.htm#6
 
As far as I'm aware, no-one was able to reproduce the successes that the spiricom people claimed, so nothing came of it.
 
They can't even scan the cover of their book in straight - how are they supposed to be able to contact the dead?


And I love the way they write it:
Anyone Contemplating Developing Equipment to Converse with the " D e a d " :
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I've never seen double spacing used to try and look spooky before.:)

But I like it, it's wacky.
 
There's a motion picture coming out sometime soon about "evp" so I assume it'll become a trendy thing...
 
Back in my woo days I used to do "ghost hunts" and the like, and even got a few EVPs. The problem w/ EVPs is, you have to severely manipulate the audio recording in order to "hear" them. Many EVP "experts" even say this on various websites and books.

My favorite EVP was one taken in an abandoned house in Canandaigua, NY. The voice said "Rosie... Rosie..."
The problem was I had to take it to SoundForge on my computer to get anything out of it. It also vaguely sounded like a distant dog barking.

My bet's on the dog, actually. :D
 
I'm on a Mortuary Radio

Apparently Art Bell is hoping that someone out there will start up where Spiricom left off. In fact a caller from Canada, an ham radio operator, was going to experiment chatting with the dead on a low power QRP radio. QRP transcievers, if you don't know, let the radio operator chat over great distances with very little wattage: more challenging apparently. I wonder how he'll initiate the conversation, "CQ The Dead"? The so called dialogues I heard sounded like the "spirit" was chatting through a voice synthesizer, rather like those used by people who had their vocal chords removed from cancer surgery. I did have the show recorded, but sadly I didn't save the file or I would have posted it for others to listen. Also there is apparently a book on this subject called "The Ghost of 29mhz", which is far as I can tell is out of print. I can't wait for the websites that'll post their own chats with dead. I can hear it now. "What's you're 20 ghoul buddy?"
 
Re: I'm on a Mortuary Radio

Yeah_Right said:
The so called dialogues I heard sounded like the "spirit" was chatting through a voice synthesizer
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This was the hallmark of the Spiricom success. I saw a documentary about EVP a few years ago, and there was some accompanying video footage of someone working the spiricom, being ordered about by a rather grumpy-sounding ghost. Truly astonishing, if you were to take it at face value.

The spiricom recordings represented a quite unprecedented level of success in the field of EVP. All other researchers were making do with mere snippets of sound, which had to be listened to and relistened to painstakingly, followed by scouring of as many foreign dictionaries as one could find, before an entirely ungrammatical sentence was reconstructed, stitched together from different languages (which EVP researchers called 'polyglot'). A lot of the time, no exact word could be found, so instead it was suggested that the entities were inventing new words! I'm sure you don't need me to spell out the skeptical alternative explanation.

And the spiricom voice does indeed sound just like a voice synthesiser. Also, no-one else could replicate the spiricom people's success, not even when using a spiricom device. So the state of the art in EVP collapsed back down to where it had been before, and there (as far as I'm aware) it's stayed up until the present day.

There is a CD of EVP recordings, The Ghost Orchid, reproducing some of the early results, but not, alas, any of the spiricom output. As a document of the phenomenon, it is valuable and it has a pop culture weirdness appeal (like the Conet Project 'numbers stations' recordings), and would make great post-rock/electronic music sample fodder. But as evidence of anything supernatural it is very unconvincing.
 
Re: I'm on a Mortuary Radio

Yeah_Right said:
Apparently Art Bell is hoping that someone out there will start up where Spiricom left off. In fact a caller from Canada, an ham radio operator, was going to experiment chatting with the dead on a low power QRP radio. QRP transcievers, if you don't know, let the radio operator chat over great distances with very little wattage: more challenging apparently. I wonder how he'll initiate the conversation, "CQ The Dead"? The so called dialogues I heard sounded like the "spirit" was chatting through a voice synthesizer, rather like those used by people who had their vocal chords removed from cancer surgery. I did have the show recorded, but sadly I didn't save the file or I would have posted it for others to listen. Also there is apparently a book on this subject called "The Ghost of 29mhz", which is far as I can tell is out of print. I can't wait for the websites that'll post their own chats with dead. I can hear it now. "What's you're 20 ghoul buddy?"
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Hmm...do the dead need a ham radio operator's license? And if so how do you enforce it? :D
 
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Pragmatist said:
Hmm...do the dead need a ham radio operator's license? And if so how do you enforce it? :D
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Perhaps only those with licenses try to communicate. Those with lesser qualifications only communicate in code, thus all that tapping on tables. I wonder if the FCC is looking into this as it would be a clear violation. Of course it's not as tittilating as the Janet Jackson violation. :)

JPK
 
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