July 3, 2002: Recorded Voices of Ghosts - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath
The EVP samples range from a child's voice saying "perfect circle" near an infrared scope to a woman named Hazel identifying herself inside a prison warden's house. One recording captures a child admitting "I did" after tugging a blanket from the investigators in a freezing cemetery. Cook reveals that the group now possesses a real-time recorder, built by electronics engineer Christopher Helms, that allows them to hear EVP responses through headphones just one second after recording.
Art presses the investigators on what these voices reveal about the afterlife. Cook notes that spirits have described their surroundings as "cold" and "dark," and that approximately 60 to 70 percent of recorded voices appear directly responsive to the investigators' questions. The pair also discusses compass deflection and EMF spikes that sometimes correlate with EVP captures.
Key Moments
'Have them come back' from a haunted Montana home: Cook and McBeath play an EVP captured at a Montana family home reported to have shadow figures and door activity; as the team is packing up, a voice cuts in saying 'have them come back' or 'have Brendan come back.' Art admits he can't make it out at first; the team debates which version is right.
Why are EVPs always short?: A listener emails to ask why EVPs only deliver fragments instead of full soliloquies. McBeath says it 'really takes an effort on their part to even get these few words out' and that they have never recorded anything longer than a sentence.
First strong EVP on the real-time recorder: Cook describes the first 'really, really strong queer EVP' captured by the new real-time recorder built by engineer Christopher Helms - a voice saying 'I feel so bad,' apparently responding in real time to a discussion of a friend's mother who died of cancer.
'One step in the light' and a sudden temperature drop: Cook plays an EVP where after he asks an entity to speak, a woman's voice responds 'one step in the light,' and Cook is heard saying 'just got really cold' - claiming the temperature dropped 10 to 15 degrees suddenly during the encounter.