October 7, 2013: EVP Recordings - Brendan Cook & Jimmy Chunga
The recordings range from unsettling to deeply disturbing. A child's voice in a Boston funeral home pleads to be hidden from monsters. A woman's clinical tone instructs someone to put something in a patient's eyes. At a private home plagued by a dark entity that has followed one family across three residences over ten years, a drawn-out voice hisses pure hatred. Cook and Chunga also discuss the controversial SB7 Spirit Box, a radio-scanning device that some investigators use for real-time spirit communication.
Throughout the evening, Art and his guests wrestle with the deepest questions raised by their work. Why do so many EVPs feature children's voices? Are they truly lost souls, or something else entirely masquerading as the innocent and defenseless? The answers, Cook admits, remain more elusive than ever.
Key Moments
Why digital recorders beat tape for EVP: Cook and Chunga recall Art urging them years ago to abandon tape recorders for digital. They were skeptical, called him crazy, but switched and got dramatically cleaner voice audio.
Boston funeral home: 'There might be monsters over there': Cook plays an EVP recorded hours into a Boston funeral home session. After he asks 'can you describe what it's like where you're at,' a child's voice answers 'I saw something move, there might be monsters over there,' followed by a clear 'I love you, Mark.'
Why so many child voices in EVPs: Art presses the statistical anomaly: too many of these voices sound like children given modern child mortality. Cook reframes it historically - child mortality was vastly higher in the 1600s-1800s, so a child voice doesn't mean a recently deceased child.
The drowning of a little boy EVP: Chunga introduces what he calls one of the longest and most disturbing EVPs ever recorded - nearly 90 seconds captured in a former surgical suite. The team hears a child repeating 'I can't breathe,' splashing, banging, then a man's voice and a thud.
'He broke my neck' - verified by later research: In the same building, Cook drops his recorder and mutters 'oh, that can't be good.' A woman's voice responds clearly: 'he broke my neck.' Later research confirms a homicide in the building involved exactly that - a man breaking a woman's neck.