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Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeth of the Ghost Investigators Society return after years away for a marathon playback of EVP recordings from nearly two decades of fieldwork. The five original GIS members have been together since 1998, and the material they bring ranges from whispered phrases on analog tape to voices captured in abandoned asylums.
The most harrowing recording comes from an empty room in a mental asylum in Ogden, Utah, where a microphone left running captured a child saying "help me" and "can't breathe," accompanied by water sounds and a heavy thud. Brendan waited two days before telling anyone. Both investigators hope the recording is a residual loop rather than an intelligent spirit reliving the experience. Other clips include a voice responding "talk to the dead" at a funeral home, a child crying "I can't see" near entombed infants, and a spirit asking "you guys dead?" at a cemetery, implying the dead may not know whether they address the living. Brendan surprises everyone by recommending cell phones in airplane mode as effective EVP recorders, a revelation Art Bell calls stunning.
The night ends with a promise: the GIS will return for a Halloween special with their most powerful recordings.
The most harrowing recording comes from an empty room in a mental asylum in Ogden, Utah, where a microphone left running captured a child saying "help me" and "can't breathe," accompanied by water sounds and a heavy thud. Brendan waited two days before telling anyone. Both investigators hope the recording is a residual loop rather than an intelligent spirit reliving the experience. Other clips include a voice responding "talk to the dead" at a funeral home, a child crying "I can't see" near entombed infants, and a spirit asking "you guys dead?" at a cemetery, implying the dead may not know whether they address the living. Brendan surprises everyone by recommending cell phones in airplane mode as effective EVP recorders, a revelation Art Bell calls stunning.
The night ends with a promise: the GIS will return for a Halloween special with their most powerful recordings.
Key Moments
Cell phones as EVP recorders: Cook recommends using cell phones in airplane mode as modern digital EVP recorders, stunning Art.
Ogden asylum child recording: Cook introduces an EVP from an abandoned Ogden mental asylum, recorded in an empty room with no running water and no people inside.
Help me, can't breathe: After the Ogden clip plays, Art asks if the childlike voice is saying 'help me,' and Cook confirms it sounds like 'help me, can't breathe.'
Child voice says I can't see: In a pitch-black mausoleum, a childlike EVP says 'I can't see,' and Art calls it awful and clear.
You guys dead?: The investigators play an EVP that seems to ask the living investigators, 'you guys dead?'