Night Recordings from May 15, 2008

Date Recorded: May 15, 2008.

Analysis Started: 11/10/2008 4:02pm
Analysis Completed: 1/05/2009 1:34pm
Location: Master Bedroom
Filter: Noise Removal

Clip #1, 12:06 am, 0'18''
0:05: A small child's voice
0:13: A loud knock

Clip #1, 1:23 am, 0'14''
0:05: A small child's voice
0:08: A small child's voice again

Night Recordings from October 23, 2008

Date Recorded: October 10, 2008.

Analysis Started: 10/30/2008 10:06am
Analysis Completed: 11/10/2008 4:00pm
Location: Shelby's Bedroom
Filter: Noise Removal

A lot of noises seem to come from Shelby's room, which shares a wall with my bedroom. There has also been activity in the past in her room, as documents in earlier blog entries.

I decided on this night to place the recorder in her room for the first time. Note that both clips have a clock, so you will hear its ticking throughout.

Clip #1, 12:03 am, 0'09''
Three quick knocks.

Clip #2, 12:08 am, 1'25''
Some taps , then a girl hums. The guys at Haunted New Jersey (whose podcasts I listen to) suggest that more often than not EVPs are precluded by some sort of tap or knock. No one knows why yet.

0:06 A loud tap
0:10-0:25 Shelby, possibly woken up by the tap, stirs and rolls over.
0:40 Another tap
1:09 A girl hums
1:15 A girl hums again

Voices from upstairs while I work

I work from home and am located in the basement. I've been alone in the house for most of the day. Around 30 minutes ago I kept hearing a young female voice upstairs. It was very muffled and I couldn't tell what she was saying. It was also very intermittent. I would hear the voice and several seconds would go by, and I wouldn't hear anything. So I would go back to my work, only to hear it again a minute or so later!

I finally got tired of this and walked softly over to to the landing of the basement steps. I put my voice recorder on the landing, and turned it on. My plan was that any noises from upstairs should echo down the stairwell and be captured by the sound recorder.

I went back to my desk and continued working for around 5 minutes, after which I got up to retrieve the recorder. During that time I did hear the voice several times and was excited to listen to it on the recorder.

Alas, the recorder picked up no voices. I was more than a little disappointed because I know I heard the voice off and on for a period of about 30 minutes or more.

Results of EVP recordings from May 11, 2008

May 11, 2008.
Anaylsis Started: 6/12/2008 12:15 pm
Analysis Completed: 6/19/2008 11:28 am

Results:

Clip #1, 12:56 am, 0m 24s
A bunch of pops from what I'm pretty sure is the shower stall in my bathroom. These pops are repeated for almost 30 seconds.

Clip #2, 4:22 am, 0m 11s
It almost sounds like an object rolling along a surface and then striking another object. The striking sound is pretty loud, and I'm pretty sure this is also in my room based on it's volume.

Results of EVP recording from May 10, 2008

Recording Date: May 10, 2008.
Anaylsis Started: 6/10/2008 11:37AM
Analysis Completed: 6/12/2008 9:12AM

Results:

Clip #1, 1:39 am, 0m 10s
I only saved one of these little knocks but there have been at least 5 more previous to it, starting 10 minutes after I went to bed.

Clip #2, 1:51 am, 0m 15s
About ten minutes later, two little taps in succession. Something is definitely in my room and moving stuff around.

Clip #3, 2:00 am, 0m 12s
This clip really demonstrates that I have poltergeist activitly. You can hear someting sliding across a surface, and then slamming into a wall, or a door - hard to tell. When I heard this raw from the recorder, it really sounded to me like this was the door to the washer/dryer room being slammed shut! I heard this a few days ago and reported in here in this blog.

Clip #4, 4:31 am, 0m 11s
This is a strange noise, like maybe the duct work in the walls is being given a little shove.

Clip #5, 4:47 am, 0m 12s
A very loud and obnoxious bang. This seems obviously like something was lifted from a nearby surface in the room, and slammed or dropped back down.

EVP Recordings, May 22, 2008

After the little girl made herself known to Shelby in Sophia's room, I put the recorder in their room last night. There are about 10 nights of EVP recordings that I need to go through ahead of this one, but I wanted to see what was caught, if anything, in the girls room.

Clip #1, 3:09 am, 1m 11s
Quick running footsteps, no doubt at this point that it must be little girl.

Clip #2, 4:23 am, 0m 51s
More footsteps. It seems like the footsteps are are aimlessly wandering around. I wish I knew where the girl was walking in the house!

EVP Recordings, May 8, 2008: Another male voice caught

Clip #1, 1:22 am, 0m 13s
This is a really loud, aggressive knock. I hate these types of events simply because if I were awake it would probably make me jump. These types of events have woken me in the past, and I come slightly out of my slumber with the thought of, "What was that?" on my mind.

Clip #2, 2:36 am, 0m 16s
The second night in a row a male voice has been caught. This one is more disturbing than the first.

At the beginning of the clip you hear some rapid tapping. I didn't even hear this in my ear buds when I was going through the raw material.

Then at :06 you hear a really strange male voice that says something completely unintelligible. It almost sounds like the mouth is full of water or something similar.

Then three seconds later at :09 you hear a female voice emit a wordless sound of what could be disapproval.

All in all, a very strange clip.

EVP Recordings, May 7, 2008: A male voice caught

Due to lack of space on the recorder, I was unable to record two nights ago, when Father Patrick blessed the house. However I was able to record last night.

It will be interesting to see whether the activity increases or decreases as the result of the blessing.

Clip #1, 1:59 am, 0m 14s
This is one of the more creepier recordings. It's a woman's voice, sighing, or moaning. Take your pick.

Clip #2, 3:58 am, 0m 42s
Almost two hours later exactly, the quick footsteps return. The more I hear this, the more I think it's a child. An adult would not make footsteps this quick.

Clip #3, 4:23 am, 0m 15s
Here is the first voice captured since the first night I started recording. This time it's a male voice. From what I can tell, the voice says, "BOPE!" Post comments if you disagree.

EVP Recordings, May 5, 2008

Here is another set of recordings from last night.

Clip #1, 3:25 am, 0m 21s
Something being banged around. I want to say it's perhaps my electric razor hanging in the shower stall, but it really could be anything. Whatever it is, you can hear it bounce a couple of times against a surface.

Clip #2, 4:20 am, 3m 29s
This clip is very strange. I keep the recorder close to me when I sleep. So in the background you can hear me breathing in my sleep. But layered on top of that, someone or something is very close to me, lightly whistling in time to my breathing.

If you don't listen carefully, you could make the observation that the whistling sound is coming from me as part of the noises I'm making while I sleep. But if you listen very closely, you will notice that the whistling is off from my breathing pattern, making it obvious that I'm not the whistling.

For the first time, "nothing" was caught on the recorder

Last night there were no significant voices, bumps, or bangs caught on the recorder - another first! Up until now, every recording I've listened to had at least one event on it that was worthwhile to earmark.

But while listening to the recordings last night there were tons of "little" noises. Unfortunately there were too many, and they were too minor to continuously split the recording and save them off.

Most of the night from around 3am on, there were lots of little knocks and clicks, like things were being picked up and then put down on the dresser. I believe the noises were coming from my room.

Am I starting to get picky with what I save off? Or am I getting used to the "minor" noises enough that I don't believe they are worth bookmarking?

EVP Recordings, April 30, 2008: Seven recordings!

There were seven events captured last night on the recorder.

Clip #1, 12:08 am, 0m 12s
I can't really explain what this is. It seems like it's some sort of dialog. There's a sound like someone making a wordless query, and then it's immediately followed by a growl of some sort.

Clip #2, 12:42 am, 0m 11s
Some sort of loud knock.

Clip #3, 12:50 am, 0m 11s
Another loud knock 8 minutes later. It almost seems like something is trying to wake us up when these types of noises occur.

Clip #4, 1:50 am, 0m 11s
Exactly one hour later, the recording picks up a strange electronic noise. There is nothing on in my bedroom that would make this type of noise. This almost sounds like an old 80s hand-held game...

Clip #5, 2:46 am, 0m 31s
This is a longer clip that contains something running (and possibly jumping) around the house. It only really becomes audible around 10s into the clip. It sounds almost like a child running around and playing somewhere in the house, again on a hard surface. I'm wondering if this is happening downstairs on the wooden floor, and the recording is picking it up.

Clip #6, 3:30 am, 0m 51s
Around forty-five minutes later the footsteps return. The clip lasts for almost a minute and you can hear the footsteps almost the entire time. Again, these footsteps are quick, like a child walking briskly.

Clip #7, 4:23 am, 0m 12s
Another small knock to end a busy night. This one is interesting in that right before the knock, you can hear almost the sound of something being dragged over a smooth surface, like a wood counter top or a dresser top.

EVP Recordings, April 28, 2008

Three clips were recorded last night.

Clip #1, 12:35 am, 0m 11s
My first impression is that this sounds like a hand or foot being dragged across the fiberglass surface of a bathtub, or across a glass surface like my shower stall. There are two bathrooms on the second level, and since the microphone is not directional, it could have come from either one.

Clip #2, 1:37 am, 0m 11s
This noise is loud and distorted like the source occurred on the shelf where I was keeping the recorder. The only thing I can think of is that an object got moved on the shelf, or something hit the shelf.

Clip #3, 2:53 am, 0m 11s
This is another interesting impact sound. You can hear the impact, and then you can hear whatever was hit bounce once or twice after the impact.

EVP Recordings, April 24, 2008

Clip #1, 2:31 am, 0m 21s
The best I can do to describe this is noise is a flexible metal conduit being dragged across a piece of wood...like the 2x4 studs in the wall. Very strange noise. After some padding, the noise starts at 0:10 seconds.

Clip #2, 5:00 am, 1m 3s
Footsteps, walking slowly somewhere in the house. It's Friday, and this recording was taken around 5am, so this should have been right around the time my alarm went off. Also, the footprints sound like they are close like on the top floor where we are sleeping, but there is no hard floors on this level. Very strange indeed.

Also, at 0:46, there are 5 chimes that do not sound familiar. Usually, when its windy outside you can hear the wind chimes outside banging against each other. These 5 chimes do not sound like anything I own.

EVP Recordings, April 23, 2008

We went to bed pretty early last night (11pm is early for us). Right after we fell asleep the recorder caught something.

There are two clips, and they are over 3 minutes each. In each, it sounds like a toy being played with. Ever slip a playing card into your bicycle wheel spokes and ride up and down the street? The sound is something similar. In the clips, something is being turned at variable speeds, creating a fast clicking sound. But the speed is variable, making this two very interesting recordings.

Holly and I have been talking and agree that one of the ghosts is a child. This type of evidence adds weight to that theory.

Clip #1, 11:37 PM, 3m 31s
The first clip.

Clip #2, 11:43 PM, 3m 31s
A few minutes later it starts back up and runs for 3 more minutes...

EVP Recordings, April 22, 2008: Obnoxious knocks

The theme of last nights EVP work is Obnoxious Knocks. "They" were in an annoying mood or something. While I sleep something knocks on the walls. And I record it for your entertainment!

Clip #1, 12:09 AM, 51s

This clip is amazing. It features rapid knocking on the walls, with footsteps afterwards. There's even some sort of grunt, but that could be me, so I have to discount it as evidence.

0:10: Obnoxious raps on the walls or ceiling. Who knows really where this thing is knocking? And why didn't Bobby go crazy over the knocking? Anytime someone knocks on the door our Jack Russel Terrier goes absolutely bonkers. Did he not hear this? Could this noise have come from upstairs so he assumed it was just us? Sometimes I wish there was direction indicators on my digital recorder...

0:22: Some sort of grunt. About a second prior, you can hear me snoring, so its possible that the grunt could be me. However, it could also not be me...

0:27: From here to the end of the clip, you can hear footsteps walking on some sort of hard surface. Funny thing, there is no hard surfaces on the upper level. The bottom level has wood floors, and the only other thing I can think of that would make noise like that is the basement steps.

Clip #2, 2:16 AM, 26s

This clip disproves that I am a light sleeper. How I slept through this noise I will never know. Or maybe I did wake up and went back to sleep pretty quick.

0:04: A small rap, or knock, or tap on something. Not sure what it is really.

0:17: BAM! An aggressive and harder rap, knock or tap.

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.

EVP Recordings, April 19, 2008

So, what happened the first night? I captured two EVPs of interest. Both clips were within minutes of Holly and I going to bed.

Clip #1, 10:52 pm, 14s

This sound was easily recognizable because I hear it a lot. It is of my shower stall, which is a small square area completely enclosed in glass located next to a larger tub. My theory is that something is placing weight on the floor of the stall, then taking that weight off. There are two parts to the clip:

0:04: You can hear the weight being applied to the shower stall floor.

0:08: The weight is lifted off, causing the second noise.

Think of the noise a coke can makes as you squeeze it, then unsqueeze it. The shower stall does make this noise when Holly or myself are standing in it.

What's really interesting is at 0:02 you can hear the same voice from clip 02!. I did not hear this until I transferred the recording to the computer, so this was a surprise to me. You can barely hear it but make sure you check that out because I make note of it below.

Clip #2, 10:54 45s

This is a capture a small female child or a young woman. I think the voice originated from within my room, or just outside my room in the landing.

I verified with all my daughters that this voice was not theirs, even though I could immediately tell it was not any of them (you know your own daughter's voices).

0:08: The voice starts.

0:15: I think this is my daughters talking to each other in the next room, but it could also be the voice distorted, or facing a direction that the microphone could not pick up clearly.

0:22: The voice is clear again with a sound that to me is like a wordless disapproval. Note that this disapproval is the same sound at clip 01 at 0:02.

This EVP really freaks me out. It's a voice that is saying something in a language I can't understand. If anyone knows, or knows what she is saying, please leave a comment.

The rest of the night was quiet.

Time for some passive EVP work

Holly and I went to dinner last night - our favorite place for sushi. I told her at dinner I wanted to start recording sounds in the house while we slept, sort of passive EVP work.

So after dinner we walked to Staples - which was right next door to North China Inn, to pick up a digital voice recorder. I ended up picking a Sony ICQ-B600 for around $50. It's far from the top of the line, but it stores over 50 hours of sound, and can split recordings on the fly.

I have decided to the start recording my house while I sleep, just so I can prove to myself and hopefully others that something is going on in my house. The incident the other night in Shelby's room is the last straw for me and I am pissed off. I want to know what's in my house.

EVP is about the best I can do, because I can listen to the recordings while I work. Video would not work because I would have to watch a screen, so wouldn't be able to go through the hours of evidence while I worked. No, EVP is the way to go for me. If there's anything going on in my house, this is the way to find it.

Also, I'm not sure I want to see what's walking around my house while I sleep...

So tonight will be the first recording. I wonder what I'm going to catch. Maybe nothing?