Alright. Most of you who know me personally know that I have a weak spot for ghost stories and ghost hunting. It takes a great deal to scare me when it comes to the paranormal, but there is one thing that scares the ever-loving heebie-jeebies out of me. That thing is an EVP. EVP is short for "Electronic Voice Phenomena", which many think is the voice of a spirit or ghost caught on tape. Whenever you record something using a digital or tape-recorder, you will always have a certain amount of background "white" noise. Some investigators think that spirits can either manipulate white noise or use it in order to communicate. Other investigators and skeptics believe that EVPs are nothing more than the result of the human mind's tendency to pick out familiar phrases in otherwise incoherent noise (just like the tendency for the human mind to pick out faces in random patterns...we humans are just ingrained with that ability). Sometimes the voices are distinct, other times it is impossible to determine what they are saying.

Why does this scare me? I'm not sure. I just get the willies whenever I hear what could be a spectral voice speaking through a recording.

I'll let you guys decide for yourselves. For those of you who are interested, I'm providing two links to what I consider to be sites with good examples of EVPs:

Ghostpix.com
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Shadowlands
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I'm interested to see what you guys think.