In January 2005, the movie "White Noise" was released, dedicated to a still little studied phenomenon - the so-called phenomenon of electronic voices, or EVP. It consists in the fact that sometimes on the radio, among the hiss, which is called "white noise", you can hear voices and sounds of unknown origin.
Sometimes signals of unknown nature in the form of strange ghostly faces appear on the TV screen. In the film, Michael Keaton plays Jonathan Rivers, whose wife Linda died under mysterious circumstances. Jonathan soon meets a man who claims he can receive messages from the dead, including Linda. The inconsolable widower asks to be linked with his deceased wife and soon encounters EVP.
Well-known scientists have long been interested in this phenomenon. On October 30, 1920, in the next issue of the scientific journal Scientific American, the famous inventor Thomas Edison wrote: “If a person or what we call a soul continues to live after death, then it is natural to assume that she would like to communicate with those whom she left here, on earth. I think it is possible to create a tool that will record otherworldly messages."
Some biographers of Edison believe that he tried to create such a device, although there is no evidence of this. Marconi and Tesla also expressed a serious interest in creating technology that allows contact with the spirit world.
For the first time, the EVP phenomenon was talked about in the 30s of the XX century. Then the Swedish and Norwegian military pilots heard unidentified voices on the radio during training flights. They wrote about this in the newspapers.
In 1930, in London's Wigmore Hall, hundreds of people witnessed an unusual phenomenon. The show hasn't started yet. There was a microphone on the stage, near which there was no one. Suddenly, several loud voices, speaking in different languages, were heard from loudspeakers at different ends of the hall, connected by wires to a microphone. The sound engineers who serviced the event were later unable to explain what had happened.
In 1949, at the International Congress of the Spiritualist Organization in Manchester, the Dutch engineer Zwaan demonstrated a device he created that was capable of capturing and reproducing the voices of dead people.
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In 1952, in Milan, two Catholic priests installed a loudspeaker in a church so that all parishioners could hear the mass well. Suddenly, a hiss was heard in the loudspeaker, and then from there was heard: "I am always with you and will help you!" Both witnesses to the unusual phenomenon recognized the voice of the recently deceased father of one of the priests.
In 1959, documentary producer Friedrich Jürgenson recorded bird voices in the forest. He was amazed to find that another recording was superimposed on the recording of bird voices. A man was talking knowledgeably about the habits of birds. Jurgenson thought he had somehow recorded a radio show about birds.
But when he heard the same tape a few weeks later, the birdwatcher's voice was gone. Instead, Jurgenson's worried mother's voice called: "Friedel, my little Friedel, can you hear me ?!" Fridel's mother called Jurgenson in childhood.
After that, the producer managed to record several more unknown voices that spoke different languages. Jürgenson worked on the problem with Dr. Hans Bender, head of the parapsychology department at the University of Freiburg.
In 1965, Dr. Konstantin Raudive, a famous psychologist and student of Carl Jung, met with Jurgenson and, convinced of the existence of EVP, became interested in studying this phenomenon. Raudive attracted physicists and electronic engineers to work and created his own receiver, in which a pure crystal is the main element.
The receiver was called a goniometer. With the help of a goniometer, Raudive recorded thousands of otherworldly voices and in 1968 released a report on his research, translated into several languages.
In those same years, American businessman George Meek sponsored a similar project in the United States. Engineer Bill O'Neill, formerly of NASA, designed a device for communicating with the spirit world, called the Spiritualist. In 1981, O'Neill died under strange circumstances and disappeared as a spiritualist.
By then, EVP had intrigued people around the world. In Britain, two researchers, George Bonner and Raymond Kass, experimented with a reel-to-reel tape recorder and made white noise act as a carrier of voices.
Bonner asked into the microphone: "Can anyone hear me?" A minute later, the answer appeared on the tape: "Yes!" Bonner and Cass recorded tens of thousands of otherworldly voices over a period of twenty-two years.
Despite the large number of experimental results, none of the researchers has yet been able to explain EVP. Later, this concept was expanded, and a new term appeared - instrumental transcommunication, which also includes otherworldly telephone calls, ghost recordings on VCRs and mysterious messages on personal computers.
In 1982, a society of enthusiasts for these phenomena appeared in the UK - the Association for Instrumental Transcommunication. The leader of the society is Judit Chisholm. Her passion for EVP began with a very curious incident.
In 1999, she bought a tape recorder and found that it did not play the music she had. Out of frustration, Judit swore: "These idiots in the store sold me a low-quality product!" Suddenly the tape recorder, where the tape with the recorded music was spinning silently, came to life and said: "You shouldn't return the tape recorder to the store."
Miss Chisholm was surprised to recognize the voice of her colleague and friend, who had died several years earlier. "Jack, is that you?" Judit dared to ask quietly. “I am, baby. I will help you,”came from the tape recorder.
Since then, as soon as Edith turn on the tape recorder, "they" began to talk to her or to each other. "They" are otherworldly voices. Some Judit recognized - they were her dead relatives and acquaintances. Some voices could not be recognized, others spoke foreign languages. Sometimes communication was two-way, and Judit could communicate with deceased friends. Sometimes they didn’t answer questions, as if they hadn’t heard her, or they talked among themselves.
Miss Chisholm's library contains about a thousand recordings of the voices of spirits. Judit frequently travels around the world and speaks at seminars organized by paranormal societies in different countries. Her wonderful tape recorder is always with her.
Miss Chisholm and other enthusiasts of the phenomenon of electronic voices are trying to attract specialists - physicists, engineers, psychologists - to their research. The goal is to unravel the phenomenon of instrumental transcommunication and create a universal device with the help of which anyone who wishes could contact deceased loved ones.
But here's the strange thing: every third message from there carries a threat or aggression.
From the book "Mysteries of the Underworld"
