You look at strange phenomena and say "No way." I look at strange phenomena and say, "Maybe not, but wouldn't it rock if it were true?"
Nick and I rented the DVD for a film called White Noise which we both very much disliked (except, of course, for Ian McNeice, better known as the newsreader in the HBO series Rome). I did enjoy one of the bonus features in the film, a mini-docko made by a couple who have spent years investigating "electronic voice phenomena." Those people put together this website. As you can see, they've appeared in or on other programs as well.
What are "electronic voice phenonemena," you ask. I will let the experts tell you. The following is a quotation from the website of the "American Association--Electronic Voice Phenomenon" (a name I have issues with because it doesn't make a lot of sense as a name, but never mind that). Here is their explanation:
[quote begins from AA-EVP webiste:]
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) concerns unexpected voices found in recording media. It is a form of after death communication. ITC is a newer term that includes all of the ways these unexpected voices and images are collected through technology, including EVP. Of the many hypotheses designed to explain these phenomena, the Survival Hypothesis has been found to be most effective in answering the evidence....
The Survival Hypothesis holds that we are nonphysical entities who are able to exist in the physical aspect of reality because of our physical body, but that when our physical body dies, we as Self, change our point of view to nonphysical reality.In effect, we exist before and after our current lifetime. The working hypothesis supported by AA-EVP is that these messages are, indeed, nonphysical in origin and that the Survival Hypothesis is essentially correct. It is the goal of AA-EVP and its membership to find ways to improve the reception of these messages and to better understand their origin.
[quote ends]
You can listen to sounds and even see videos.
What's off-putting is the dullness and incomprehensibility of some of the messages. Also I don't like the idea that there's nothing more to the afterlife after we "transition" to nonphysical reality except hanging round where you were before, only in a nonphysical state, unable even to surf the internet.
Furthermore, a lot of the raw tapes don't sound like anything at all
and the things the "transitioned" say are not only dull but kind of
stupid sometimes. Even worse than being stuck would be being stuck
and forgetting how to talk, assuming you had something to say. I
cheer myself up by thinking that the "transitioned" like to pop in from
time to time for a joke----hence the gibberish offered to earnest
researchers.
And the idea of people who have outlived someone they love needing this sort of connection is very depressing to me. We all move on, like the moon and the stars and the sun. Also like John Lennon, of course.
Regardless, I did enjoy listening to the messages, some of which made my scalp prickle a bit.
The one I found most compelling was the recording by a woman of her deceased daughter's voice while the woman was off somewhere and their dog was making a mess of the house. You can hear it on this page. At least it was relevant to something that was actually happening.
I also liked this one, which was responsive to a specific question. The response is first in French, then in English.
Anyway, check it out. At worst, it's just another thread in life's rich tapestry.
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