Wonder-man
Paranormal Novice
Last couple of shows have NOT been boring. brief note to Chris. Keep up your work with Ray Stanford. His work and his commentary are a UFO goldmine and you and this show are to be praised for your attempts to give him a new and wider audience as well as bringing out some remarkable
data sets which are mostly unknown to the majority of those interested in ufology.
Michael Espostio seems to be among the brightest and best self-taught guest researchers in his field that you have aired to date. His quest for knowledge and his creative experimental designs are worthy of both praise and some kind of award -- maybe something like the MacArthur award which gives lesser known talent the freedom to explore their "first love," even though the rest of us may not see it as of special value to us at this time.
The downside is that really bright guys like this are sometimes subject to greater degrees of self-delusion as to what they think they are bringing to the world.
I think I understood something of what he was trying to explain about ionized air having greater permittivity for EM signals, but it tended to come across as gibberish. He may need to research this a bit further or at least be given a chance to explain what he was trying to say in another program and hopefully will do so with greater clarity. This condition also exists during storms as well as before and after them, but there is a lot more going on while there is actual storm activity and the ionization levels as well as the ambient sound levels are much greater. Thus, even if the signal might be stronger, the noise element will also be stronger.
I may have missed it, but Michael needs to make distinctions with each EVP presentation as to whether the recoding came from actual analog sound which was captured via some kind of microphone input or is/was purely electronic, NOT mic-ed into the recording system thus being a purely EM artifact which showed up during play back as a captured sound signal among long silences when the recorder was originally activated.
Michael, have you considered using ultrasonic movement detectors associated with security alarms, as activator switches for your EVP recordings? That might offer you some short cuts and efficiencies.
Have you tried simultaneous capturing of an EVP event on both analogue and digital
recording equipment? Did you learn anything by doing a side by side comparison of the signals
taken down to a very fine time screen of signal analysis? In other words we have learned that
there can be a lot going on in the time between the frames in a 30 frames per second video
capture. What sorts of things might be going on in the time spans that are outside the digital
sampling rates in your digital recording equipment?
I am not particularly awed or impressed by EVP phenomena because it seems so random and sporadic in nature as presented so far. Ghost phenomena in contrast seems to have certain consistencies and repetitive elements within it. Yes, EVP does show up in active "haunting locations," but its linkages to the other phenomena at the same site seems to be subject to human assumptions attempting to validate one type of a phenomena with the other. Michael, have you taken a look at EVP that tends to occur in "non-haunted" locations or quiet zones and compared it with the EVP that shows up in haunted locations?
I regret that Gene cut you off when you started talking about your work with various kind of
"colored" noise broadcast techniques to enable you to suppress (filter out) other kinds of noise that might mask the kinds of signals you are looking for. I do understand why he did it and it probably is an area of specialized interest that does not command a wide audience...however...I do think the way you creatively attempted to apply that knowledge to your experimental research designs was of great interest and that such a fresh approach (even though it originated with recording industry practices) could have parallels (uses) in other kinds of paranormal research. (I'm impressed by the thinking behind your approach not just the idea of applying white noise, etc. in other areas of paranormal research.) I hope you have written up some of this work on your website, which I have not visited yet.
There are many random sporadic phenomena going on in the universe around us which we are
totally unaware of with our normal senses. Two examples are gamma ray bursts which are detectable in very specific ways and the existence of virtual particles or zero point energy where little bursts of particle energy pop into and out of "existence" and create observable phenomena
in the physics laboratory. It may eventually be proved that EVP is a by-product of some specific
types of quantum fluctuations, which may not be as random as they are currently assumed to be,
and are actually subject to some other sources/forces which give them forms which our machines and brains can interpret as meaningful or as the paracast guys like to say, that look like a signal rather than a noise.
Here are some thoughts that might help inform your future research.
Categorize the frequencies at which EVP tend to occur. Yes, these would typically be within the range of human speech frequencies, but if you do a power series analysis using either fourier analysis or wavelet analysis certain tendencies or patterns (frequency peaks) may tend to emerge within that range.
Now do something similar for the purely electronic form of those signals which the playback portion of the recording equipment is designed to interpret as sound signals and which may not be (even short stretches of cable from an input jack within the machine might be able to act as antenna for capturing certain kinds of EM signals when present,) or definitely has not been, inserted onto the recording medium by means of standard microphone input.
Look for something that might act as a form of carrier signal. You mentioned about using the body, the voice, and other effects as energy sources that might be manipulated by "discarnate entities." That is an underlying ghost hypothesis, but it may be incorrect. Teasing out the identity
of real, clearly defined, carrier signal energies could either help support or defeat that hypothesis. It might be possible that you will need either ultra low or ultra high frequency or both recording equipment in order to captureevidence of the presence of these carrier frequencies. Consider how
ultrasound frequencies are imposed on ordinary sound frequencies in order to give them a beam like or narrow dispersion pattern, as opposed to the standard multi-directional norm.
Michael, the next suggestion may seem like asking you to go on a "fools errand," but if you are going to do truly scientific research you will need to make this effort. Design EVP capture experiments where you have enough different recording points that you can attempt to triangulate on the sound sources, if present, and a series of separate experiments where you try to triangulate in on the source of the EM origins of the EVP sources. In many cases it seems these signals may originate right within the machine. If you find that in your sampling experiences, it ought to give you some interesting results when you try to triangulate a 3D physical source and find you can't.
Do a statistical analysis of the varying time length (short - long, using 1/10 sec or smaller interval units as a measuring base) of different EVP capture patterns and see whether there are any correlations among the signal strength, the frequency range(s), and the locations of apparent "sources," if you are able to detect any sort of point sources. Does the sampling of a sufficiently large number of the varying lengths of EVP events form a normal curve or a skewed one? Which ones may seem to have identifiable point sources? etc. etc.
One very rich area for research that no one has touched on and could earn you, Michael, some sort of research grant, if you can show strong enough correlations, is that of emotional imprint into a space time environment. It is posited that strong emotions have a great influence on the development of many haunting phenomena, psychic events, and paranormal kinds of experiences.
To the extent an EVP pattern really resembles human speech, what sort of emotion would be associated with the intonation of the words and the choice of words. (expletive delete: surprise, anger, disgust, etc.) Collect many sets of these types of non-neutral comments. An example of a neutral comment would be a flat sounding "yes" or "no" answer to questions that the EVP collector may be asking either aloud or silently, mentally. If there is software, such as lie detection software, that does voice analysis which can also be used to filter (identify) emotion, see if your samples are large enough to get any confirmation of your personal analysis by running it through that software.
Are there certain types of emotions that seem to turn up more frequently among EVP recordings
than others? How might they in some fashion be responsible for causing the EVP or the persistence of the EVP?
It is better not to have any knowledge of the haunting history of the area you are sampling for EVP so that your consciousness will not bias the results or your interpretation of the results. Once you have sufficient examples to do credible analysis then you could do the historical, psychic, or other kinds of research that would help define the kind of environment in which your EVP was generated and captured.
Finding an unhaunted, but still EVP rich, site vs. a haunted one may be more difficult than it seems, but you might have fun with this challenge by working with a proven remote viewer to identify potentially good EVP sites which could be easily accessible to you, but have them withhold all other detail until after you have done the research on the site. If much additional
info is captured at the time of the remote viewing, let it be recorded in such a way that there is a double blind element built into the experiment, such that your data collection would not be contaminated with any specific sorts of expectations cued by that additional information.
If you do find point sources as origins of EVP, then you might consider monitoring the space
in which you are collecting your EVP samples, with an infrared high speed video which might
possibly capture correlated EM phenomena in the long light range frequencies. These have often been shown to contain data in other reports of paranormal research including ghost research.
data sets which are mostly unknown to the majority of those interested in ufology.
Michael Espostio seems to be among the brightest and best self-taught guest researchers in his field that you have aired to date. His quest for knowledge and his creative experimental designs are worthy of both praise and some kind of award -- maybe something like the MacArthur award which gives lesser known talent the freedom to explore their "first love," even though the rest of us may not see it as of special value to us at this time.
The downside is that really bright guys like this are sometimes subject to greater degrees of self-delusion as to what they think they are bringing to the world.
I think I understood something of what he was trying to explain about ionized air having greater permittivity for EM signals, but it tended to come across as gibberish. He may need to research this a bit further or at least be given a chance to explain what he was trying to say in another program and hopefully will do so with greater clarity. This condition also exists during storms as well as before and after them, but there is a lot more going on while there is actual storm activity and the ionization levels as well as the ambient sound levels are much greater. Thus, even if the signal might be stronger, the noise element will also be stronger.
I may have missed it, but Michael needs to make distinctions with each EVP presentation as to whether the recoding came from actual analog sound which was captured via some kind of microphone input or is/was purely electronic, NOT mic-ed into the recording system thus being a purely EM artifact which showed up during play back as a captured sound signal among long silences when the recorder was originally activated.
Michael, have you considered using ultrasonic movement detectors associated with security alarms, as activator switches for your EVP recordings? That might offer you some short cuts and efficiencies.
Have you tried simultaneous capturing of an EVP event on both analogue and digital
recording equipment? Did you learn anything by doing a side by side comparison of the signals
taken down to a very fine time screen of signal analysis? In other words we have learned that
there can be a lot going on in the time between the frames in a 30 frames per second video
capture. What sorts of things might be going on in the time spans that are outside the digital
sampling rates in your digital recording equipment?
I am not particularly awed or impressed by EVP phenomena because it seems so random and sporadic in nature as presented so far. Ghost phenomena in contrast seems to have certain consistencies and repetitive elements within it. Yes, EVP does show up in active "haunting locations," but its linkages to the other phenomena at the same site seems to be subject to human assumptions attempting to validate one type of a phenomena with the other. Michael, have you taken a look at EVP that tends to occur in "non-haunted" locations or quiet zones and compared it with the EVP that shows up in haunted locations?
I regret that Gene cut you off when you started talking about your work with various kind of
"colored" noise broadcast techniques to enable you to suppress (filter out) other kinds of noise that might mask the kinds of signals you are looking for. I do understand why he did it and it probably is an area of specialized interest that does not command a wide audience...however...I do think the way you creatively attempted to apply that knowledge to your experimental research designs was of great interest and that such a fresh approach (even though it originated with recording industry practices) could have parallels (uses) in other kinds of paranormal research. (I'm impressed by the thinking behind your approach not just the idea of applying white noise, etc. in other areas of paranormal research.) I hope you have written up some of this work on your website, which I have not visited yet.
There are many random sporadic phenomena going on in the universe around us which we are
totally unaware of with our normal senses. Two examples are gamma ray bursts which are detectable in very specific ways and the existence of virtual particles or zero point energy where little bursts of particle energy pop into and out of "existence" and create observable phenomena
in the physics laboratory. It may eventually be proved that EVP is a by-product of some specific
types of quantum fluctuations, which may not be as random as they are currently assumed to be,
and are actually subject to some other sources/forces which give them forms which our machines and brains can interpret as meaningful or as the paracast guys like to say, that look like a signal rather than a noise.
Here are some thoughts that might help inform your future research.
Categorize the frequencies at which EVP tend to occur. Yes, these would typically be within the range of human speech frequencies, but if you do a power series analysis using either fourier analysis or wavelet analysis certain tendencies or patterns (frequency peaks) may tend to emerge within that range.
Now do something similar for the purely electronic form of those signals which the playback portion of the recording equipment is designed to interpret as sound signals and which may not be (even short stretches of cable from an input jack within the machine might be able to act as antenna for capturing certain kinds of EM signals when present,) or definitely has not been, inserted onto the recording medium by means of standard microphone input.
Look for something that might act as a form of carrier signal. You mentioned about using the body, the voice, and other effects as energy sources that might be manipulated by "discarnate entities." That is an underlying ghost hypothesis, but it may be incorrect. Teasing out the identity
of real, clearly defined, carrier signal energies could either help support or defeat that hypothesis. It might be possible that you will need either ultra low or ultra high frequency or both recording equipment in order to captureevidence of the presence of these carrier frequencies. Consider how
ultrasound frequencies are imposed on ordinary sound frequencies in order to give them a beam like or narrow dispersion pattern, as opposed to the standard multi-directional norm.
Michael, the next suggestion may seem like asking you to go on a "fools errand," but if you are going to do truly scientific research you will need to make this effort. Design EVP capture experiments where you have enough different recording points that you can attempt to triangulate on the sound sources, if present, and a series of separate experiments where you try to triangulate in on the source of the EM origins of the EVP sources. In many cases it seems these signals may originate right within the machine. If you find that in your sampling experiences, it ought to give you some interesting results when you try to triangulate a 3D physical source and find you can't.
Do a statistical analysis of the varying time length (short - long, using 1/10 sec or smaller interval units as a measuring base) of different EVP capture patterns and see whether there are any correlations among the signal strength, the frequency range(s), and the locations of apparent "sources," if you are able to detect any sort of point sources. Does the sampling of a sufficiently large number of the varying lengths of EVP events form a normal curve or a skewed one? Which ones may seem to have identifiable point sources? etc. etc.
One very rich area for research that no one has touched on and could earn you, Michael, some sort of research grant, if you can show strong enough correlations, is that of emotional imprint into a space time environment. It is posited that strong emotions have a great influence on the development of many haunting phenomena, psychic events, and paranormal kinds of experiences.
To the extent an EVP pattern really resembles human speech, what sort of emotion would be associated with the intonation of the words and the choice of words. (expletive delete: surprise, anger, disgust, etc.) Collect many sets of these types of non-neutral comments. An example of a neutral comment would be a flat sounding "yes" or "no" answer to questions that the EVP collector may be asking either aloud or silently, mentally. If there is software, such as lie detection software, that does voice analysis which can also be used to filter (identify) emotion, see if your samples are large enough to get any confirmation of your personal analysis by running it through that software.
Are there certain types of emotions that seem to turn up more frequently among EVP recordings
than others? How might they in some fashion be responsible for causing the EVP or the persistence of the EVP?
It is better not to have any knowledge of the haunting history of the area you are sampling for EVP so that your consciousness will not bias the results or your interpretation of the results. Once you have sufficient examples to do credible analysis then you could do the historical, psychic, or other kinds of research that would help define the kind of environment in which your EVP was generated and captured.
Finding an unhaunted, but still EVP rich, site vs. a haunted one may be more difficult than it seems, but you might have fun with this challenge by working with a proven remote viewer to identify potentially good EVP sites which could be easily accessible to you, but have them withhold all other detail until after you have done the research on the site. If much additional
info is captured at the time of the remote viewing, let it be recorded in such a way that there is a double blind element built into the experiment, such that your data collection would not be contaminated with any specific sorts of expectations cued by that additional information.
If you do find point sources as origins of EVP, then you might consider monitoring the space
in which you are collecting your EVP samples, with an infrared high speed video which might
possibly capture correlated EM phenomena in the long light range frequencies. These have often been shown to contain data in other reports of paranormal research including ghost research.
