Monday, April 21, 2008

EVP Recordings, April 20, 2008: Weird Mechanical Noises

More recordings for your listening pleasure. This must be the night of weird mechanical noises.


Clip #1, 1:39 AM, 15s

This is a very strange clip. It's some sort of mechanical noise that I have never heard before in this house. Not sure if it qualifies as paranormal, but I have no clue what it is. One thing I have learned from doing this EVP work is that there is some strange shit that you hear at night in your house.

0:06: The noise starts and lasts for only a second or two.


Clip #2, 3:04 AM, 56s

An even stranger clip. Is it a some weird alien bird? Again, it seems mechanical, but I have never, ever heard this type of noise in the house.

0:05: The first of two instances of the weird noises.

0:46: The second part of the weird noises

Please leave comments if you can offer insight as to what the noises are in these two clips.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Again, using some noise reduction helps, discerning the sounds from the background noise...

The first thing that attracted my attention in this second batch of clips, is that they seem to have a different quality of background noise than the first two clips - did you change something at the recorder? Maybe it is just different, because of a different location of the recorder...
The second thing was that there is a clipping sound at the start of each clip, as if the recording was just started. Why is that noise in the recording?
Okay, on to the contents of the clips:

In the first clip, it sounds like there is something swinging that generated the noise, because it pulsates from loud to silent a few times, which brings to my mind some sort of oscillating motion.

In the second clip, there are a few noises, that sound quite different from each other:

There are the noises at 0:05-0:07, that seem to be quite similar to the ones at 0:46-0:48. Both remind me of the sound it makes, when you have wet fingers and rub hard over the wet surface of a bathtub.
The sounds at 0:10 and 0:26 do very clearly have the same source. It sounds like a small bell or more like something ringing against a wineglass.
There are more sounds at 0:30-0:32, but they are very quiet and with all the background noise, I can only surmise, that it is started by a clinking sound, followed by something that sounds a bit like something hard scratching over another hard surface or (if the sound is closer) a piece of paper being slowly drawn over a desktop.

If the recorder was placed in or close to the bathroom, the noises could have come from there.

Ed Mittelstedt said...

These recordings might have been done using the low gain mic setting. Perhaps that's why they sound different. But the background noise is still there, so I think this is still the high gain.

The pop you hear in the beginning is an artifact from a combination of using the Audacity software to record from a analog source (the recorder). Sorry about that. I'll make a point to cut that out of future sound files.

The bells you hear are wind chimes located on my porch outside. It was slightly windy that night. Sorry, for some reason I never mentioned the wind chimes. They are constant during this period of recordings.

The rustling sound at :30-:32 is either myself or my wife moving an arm or leg in bed, I'm sure of it.

The noises of note for this clip are at the beginning and end.