I record the girl ghost humming

Back in January (I know, I'm behind with this stuff) I switched over to using my Sansa e280 as my primary recording device. The day I decided to use this we were running into town in the evening. I wanted to record the house while we were gone just for shits and grins to see if I could capture anything.

Note that there was no one home at the time.

I was a bit surprised at the results. In two different occasions, 9 minutes apart, I captured the girl's voice humming some tuneless song.

Clip #1, 7:06 pm, 0'13''
Noise Reduction: 10db
0:03: A girl humming

Clip #2, 7:14 pm, 0'10''
Noise Reduction: 10db
0:03: A girl humming

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".

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.

EVPs and Bumps-in-the-Night: Recordings from May 31, 2008

Date Recorded: May 31, 2008

Analysis Started: 01/18/2009 9:12am
Analysis Completed: 01/21/2009 7:24pm

Here's another clip of footsteps while we sleep.

Clip #1, 3:34 am, 0'41''
Noise Reduction: 10db
0:10: Footsteps start

EVPs and bumps-in-the-night from December 29, 2008

I'm finally getting back to posting the stored clips of sounds that I've recorded the past few years.

Here are three more from the end of Dec '08.

Clip #1, 1:17 am, 0'14''
0:05: A quick series of taps that appear to travel from one area of the house to another. This is a very strange set of sounds.

Clip #2, 1:25 am, 0'10''
0:05: This sounds like an object moving quickly across a smooth surface, ending in the object smacking against another object. Whatever it is moved quick, like it was thrown across the surface with a lot of force.

Clip #3, 3:53 am, 0'11''
0:05: A bang so loud that it echoes in the hollow of the walls.

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

Night Recording Results from May 14th, 2008

Date Recorded: May 14, 2008.
Analysis Started: 9/3/2008 4:26pm
Analysis Completed: 10/22/2008 11:59am

Results:

Clip #1, 2:10 am, 0'17'' Noise filter applied.
I don't know how to quite explain this one. It appears to sound like some sort of bird. It's too loud to be outside. It's definitely in the house. This is also not the first time I've caught this sound.

Finally!! Night Recording Results from May 13th, 2008

Date Recorded: May 13, 2008.
Anaylsis Started: 9/3/2008 4:26 pm
Analysis Completed: 10/9/2008 3:48 pm

Results:

I tried my hand at using some Audacity tools, namely Noise Removal. I did this because the first sound I caught was a whisper that you can barely hear over the background noise. This whisper is pretty dramatic, and the first clear voice I have caught since the first night I ever recorded.

So here is the original recording:

Clip #1, 2:23 am, 0m 10s No filter.
A whisper, "It's quiet inside."

Clip #2, 2:23 am, 0m 10s Noise filter applied.
A whisper, "It's quiet inside."

Clip #3, 2:41 am, 1m 36s Noise filter applied
Knocks, then a series of bumps that sound a lot like footsteps.

Night Recording Results from May 12, 2008

Date Recorded: May 12, 2008.
Anaylsis Started: 6/19/2008 11:29 am
Analysis Completed: 9/03/2008 8:49 am

Wow, it took almost three months to finish the analysis of this recording. The reason is because I took a break from the subject matter for the summer.

Results:

Clip #1, 1:26 am, 0m 26s
A series of two soft taps, then the clip ends with a very obnoxious bang.

Clip #2, 2:45 am, 0m 43s
What sounds like a door closing, then footsteps very faintly could be heard walking around. I think this is the double-doors to the laundry room on the main level closing.

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.

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...