Paula form Glasgow has this question: It is apparently possible to make the voices of the deceased audible using a cassette recorder or recording equipment. How is this done, and is the recorded voice just our imagination or is it a real paranormal phenomenon?

In 1959, the Swedish painter and opera singer Friedrich Jürgenson noticed when listening to a recording that there were strange voices in the background calling him by his name and saying things that only he could have known about. From this moment on, he devoted his time to researching what came to be known as electric voice phenomena (EVP) culminating in the publication of his book “Voices from Space”.

The subject was at the height of its popularity in the seventies and haunted every branch of the media. The only equipment required was a cassette recorder, a microphone and a radio. The radio was set to medium volume and tuned to the white noise between two stations. Then the microphone was picked up, the cassette recorder switched to record, and the question was spoken into the microphone followed by a pause of ten seconds or so. Then the tape was played back; with luck, voices could be detected over the white noise of the radio which was left on during the recording.

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