Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Rich Newman, author of Ghost Hunting for Beginners and the new Passport to the Paranormal.
Ask any ghost hunter about evidence gathered during an investigation, and you will probably be shown a handful of EVPs. Electronic Voice Phenomena is the act of capturing disembodied voices on audio recordings, and it is one of the most common ghost hunting techniques used today.
You're probably already thinking, "How can I record my very own EVPs?" Before we get to that, let me give you a quick history of this technique. It all began in the 1950s when a filmmaker by the name of Attila von Szalay began capturing voices that he claimed were long-dead