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Surely, the skeptics have heard EVPs. How could they not have? They’re right there, captured “on tape,” to be analyzed by sound experts with the proper equipment for minimizing and maximizing layered audio. They certainly can’t in all sincerity attribute EVPs to vivid imagination, ventriloquism, or to their hearing things?
Still, I wonder if some of these EVPs that get re-played on radio talk shows are all authentic recordings or if a few are not produced by state-of-the-art scientific instruments, for the speculated purpose of trying to dupe the less incredulous among us. A few EVPs that are played on these shows are so crystal clear they seem too good to be true.
For example, on one program that I listened to years ago the guest played EVPs which, some might say coincidentally, all sounded to be in English; one or two of these sound clips even too enunciated to be believed.
I’m not saying that I think all or even the majority of EVPs are hoaxes; certainly not the ones that apparently show up on audio media without any enticing on the part of the witness.
There are those who feel the work of EVP pioneer Friedrich Jergenson pretty much confirmed the reality of this eerie research decades ago. Yet it has been my experience that this impressive bit of history generally goes unheard of within the skeptical literature. Perhaps it is too disturbing to them to give their attention to. Their cherished theoretical worldview might show an unmistakable crack in it.
In my opinion, EVPs are not necessarily “voices of the deceased” anymore than they are necessarily voices of inter-dimensional humanoids seeking human contact. At this point in time, how can anyone be certain as to exactly what this is? We may never know for sure. Science might one day, in a more contemplative frame of mind, decide to put it to empirical analysis and attempt to define it when it might very well for the rest of us have to remain an indefinite unknown.
For the close-minded negators, then, to write off this entire field of study simply because they themselves happen to disbelieve in disembodied spirits (which, in this case, might turn out to be nothing more than an unexplained phenomenon) I think is somewhat irresponsible skepticism on their part, if not a tad unprofessional ... just as my internal grammarian can sometimes be, too.
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