October 24, 2001: Electronic Voice Phenomena - Ghost Investigators Society
The recordings include a voice saying "Dr. Whitehead," another declaring "I'm always walking" near a cell where a prisoner paced for over forty years, and a chilling scream captured at the spot where inmates threw a fellow prisoner from the fourth tier. Art notes that all four of his cats react strongly to certain recordings, and listeners report similar animal responses. The team explains that EVP research dates back to the 1920s, with pioneers including Thomas Edison, who was working on a device to communicate with the dead at the time of his passing.
The first hour features open lines, with callers discussing shadow people, the random number generator experiments, and twin psychic connections. Art previews Friday's upcoming show challenging listeners to think outside the box about winning the war on terrorism.
Key Moments
How EVP is recorded: Brendan Cook walks Art through the GIS method: a microcassette recorder, an external mic, and crucially a brand-new blank tape taken into known haunted locations so that any voices captured cannot be dismissed as bleed-through.
Prison EVP: "I'm walking": Inside cell block A of an old prison, Roger McBeath comments that ghosts are just walking around, and two distinct voices answer back on the blank tape: "I'm walking, I'm walking." Art links it to the phrase "dead man walking."
EVP talks back: "Shut up": Roger asks "what's up there?" and the tape captures a voice tersely answering "shut up" - Art has them replay it and confirms it is not the same voice as Roger's.
Mausoleum: "Then she comes back": In a mausoleum investigation, Jenny asks "do you see it?" while reviewing infrared footage and a third voice cuts in on the tape with "then she comes back" - interleaved with the live conversation.
Why so many child voices come through: After playing a clearly older man's voice, Art asks why the GIS catches a disproportionate number of children. Barbara wonders whether spirits revert to childhood or if children simply find it easier to speak across the veil.