Just got touched

I'm doing the dishes in the kitchen, and I feel someone touch my left shoulder blade, almost as if picking off a piece of lint from my shirt. I fully expected Sarah, my oldest, to be behind me, even felt her presence behind me, but when I turned around there was no one in the kitchen with me.

EVP Session: The Farmer's Walk

This is the the second EVP session I have conducted in an area outside my house I have called "The Farmer's Walk".

This session was performed at 9:30 March 18th (contrary to what I state in the session).

There is a loud whine the first 10 seconds of the recording. I will try to remember to let the recorder go for 10 seconds before beginning so I can cut this out next time.

I think I did a better job this time asking questions. When the session starts, I accidentally fall back to my old ways with an unfriendly tone, then quickly recover by starting over and stating my name with a friendlier tone. I still ask questions too brusquely - it's hard not to be self-conscious basically talking to yourself.

I also need to stand still after I ask a question. The rustling of my movement is obscuring any possible answer I could be picking up.

3:06 something taps the recorder. It wasn't me. I was holding it in one hand, and keeping a tight grip on it.

3:35 In response to my question "What did you do for a living?" there is something imprinted on the recording. I tried reducing the background noise in audacity, but it's intelligible. I also tried reversing the audio, but that turned up nothing I could understand either.

4:08 the recorder is tapped again, harder this time.

5:03 noise from the recording software

5:21 noise from the recording software

I see something peek it's head over the bed at me

Yesterday morning I was on the bed. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a white flash of movement. It looked distinctly like a small head that peeked up over the side of the bed and quickly ducked back down.

EVPs and Bumps-in-the-Night: Recordings from January 5th, 2009

Here are more recordings that have been stored on my digital recorder, this time from early 2009.

Clip #1, 3:00 am, 0'13''
Noise Reduction: 10db
0:05: Me breathing
0:06: Something is being banged or taped around. The taps start quick, then slow down.

Clip #2, 4:21 am, 0'10''
Noise Reduction: 10db
0:06: A small voice humming.

Clip #3, 5:34 am, 0'13''
Noise Reduction: 10db
0:05: A loud bang, which is enough to wake one of us up.
0:09: Holly making a sound as she is half-woken from her sleep either by the sound, or me turning over.
0:13: A little girl's voice - not Holly's.
0:21: As we are still getting comfortable to fall back asleep, you hear a little girl's voice say "Hi".

EVP Maker software

Following on the heels of my mention of the Ghost Box software, I discovered another interesting tool for us "amateur" investigators. This is some software called EVP Maker.

The premise behind EVP Maker is that it takes any sound clip, chops it up, then randomly spits out slices of the clip. In this way, it behaves more like a controlled version of a Ghost Box.

An excellent bonus is that the developer has created a cued wav file of all the allophones in the English language. The software also knows how to handle cued files, and can therefore output a random stream of these allophones, hence making a ghost box that removes false positives from radio station voices!

My only con with this is lack of portability. You could install it on a laptop, but it would be great if it were ported to the iPhone/iPad and the Android OS.

EVPs and Bumps-in-the-Night: Recordings from June 18th, 2008

Date Recorded: June 15, 2008

Analysis Started: 2/5/2009 11:34am
Analysis Completed: 2/10/2009 3:54pm

Here is the last of my 2008 clips that I had stored on my digital recorder. I'm finally getting them off the darned thing and onto the blog. I analyzed this recording last year! Time just slips by too easily.

Clip #1, 12:24 am, 0'15''
Noise Reduction: 10db
0:05: A small tap or click
0:09: A rapid series of clicks. I have no idea what could have caused this.

Clip #2, 6:04 am, 0'15''
Noise Reduction: 10db
0:05: A huge, violent bang. You can actually hear something bounce right after from the impact. I am amazed we did not wake up from this. You can hear us slightly stir after the noise.

Sarah hears a little girl singing in Sophia's room.

A while ago Sarah related this story to me. I don't always have the opportunity to write in the blog immediately, but I at least try to put a little place-holder in there so I could go back later and fill in the blanks. This is one of those times.

So Sarah came to me about a month ago and told me that she was cleaning her room a few days before. Shelby and Sophia were still at school. She heard humming or soft singing coming from Sophia's room. Sophia's door was closed (at it usually is because of her cat). Sarah went over to Sophia's room and opened the door. There was no one in the room, except for the cat.