Sue Treanor is a professional psychic, medium and ghost hunter! Along with her husband, Michael, Sue visits some of the Most Haunted buildings in the UK - and reports back here.
No one knows for sure exactly what EVP is, but there are many theories. The simplest
explanation is unknown sounds or voices- for which there is no logical
explanation- appearing on electronic recordings. Skeptics would say they are intercepted short
wave radio transmissions or perhaps that the human brain needs to make sense of
sounds and is interpreting naturally occurring sounds as human speech – a kind
of audible pareidolia.
Other theories include;
The voices are the projections of the person recording;
The voices are a form of residual (or ghost) haunting and
not really a spirit entity; when a traumatic event happens on a site, the
environment absorbs the energy associated with the event and merely replays the
same events over and over (otherwise known as stone tape theory).
The sounds are extra terrestrial in nature.
The sounds are from spirits who are attempting to contact
the physical world; some EVPs are claimed to be answers to questions posed by
the recorder.
How do I capture an EVP?
Simply record in a place that is likely to produce EVPs,
then listen to the recording in a quiet environment with headphones. Some EVPs
will be clear enough to the naked ear without any specialist software; others
will require amplification to be heard more clearly. Since human hearing ranges
vary, it may be difficult for a group of listeners to agree upon a single
conclusion for the content of an EVP. It takes a while to train your ear to
listen for EVP type sounds.
Below is a collection of clear EVP's which have been recorded - what do you think?
What is an apport? Does it come from the French word, apporter, meaning to send? Ironically, some of the best definitions come from the sceptic websites. They are certainly the websites that come up first in google's list. And truthfully, I'd be sceptical too if it hadn't happened to me.
Good magicians and good mediums can produce objects seemingly out of nowhere and nothing. They can also make objects seem to disappear. When a medium does this it is referred to as a deport."
So can this really be true? Can an object teleport from one place to another? In the days of the Victorian Seance, objects from times gone by would apport into the room, such as Roman coins or other ancient objects. Flowers were also another common apport at this time In fact there was a famous medium called Elizabeth D’Esperance (which was the professional name of Elizabeth Hope) [1855-1919], who was famous for her fruit and flower apports.
Are they real though? I can only tell you about the 2 experienced I had with them.
The first took place in 2005/6. I was living in Birmingham with my two sons and my nephew was also living with me at the time. My nephew was engaged to a young girl and although they had once been very happy, they had been arguing and having some problems. He had asked me to give him a tarot reading. Before I tell you what happened, I will give you some background on the house and the story...
The house itself was built around 1930 - pretty unremarkable in terms of it's structure. A standard 4 bed detached in the suburbs of Birmingham. It was, however, rife with spirit. My eldest son had seen an old wizened woman in the bedroom and both he and I had seen a small boy, aged about 3, in striped pyjamas, run around the gallery landing. Many orbs and lights were seen with the naked eye, even our local vicar had seen a man in the back garden who simply walked through a wall ! I never found any dramatic reason why it was so haunted - all I could come up with, was that maybe there was a strong ley-line below or alongside the house.
In the weeks previous to the Apport incident, there had been a lot of paranormal activity - not surprising really as we had 3 boy aged 15 - 20 in the house - plenty of psychic/kinetic energy! My niece, who was 11 at the time, was also in my house a lot as she went to school just across the road and would come over for lunch and sometimes tea. We had been shopping in Birmingham the weekend before the Apport, and I had bought her a 'toy' ring - a sort of snake made of tin, which wrapped around the finger. She had left it on the fire place in my living room, whilst she was washed her hands one day, and had forgotten about it. I remember seeing it and thinking 'I must tell Amy that's here, I bet she thinks she's lost it!'. Then I thought no more about it.
One afternoon my nephew came in and asked me if he could have a tarot reading - he said that he was having problems with his girlfriend.
We sat opposite each other, cross legged on my double bed. I asked him to shuffle the cards. He close his eyes in concentration and began to shuffle the deck.
Suddenly, something fell from the ceiling and hit the cards he was shuffling with a 'clunk'. I couldn't believe my eyes when I looked and realised it was Amy's ring - but it was snapped in two ! the metal was red hot and I dropped it as quickly as I had picked it up! We looked at each other in astonishment - it had apported from the room directly BELOW the room we were in.
The broken ring was a sign - a week or so later my nephew and his fiance split, never to be re-united. It's as if spirit were saying 'it won't last'.
A ring like the one 'Apported' in my house
The second time was during a ghost hunt at my current house, in Evesham. My guests were table tipping in the cellar and speaking to our ghost, Colin, a modern day spirit. Colin liked a drink and a fag, and as the table tipped, my friend Alan and I witnessed a cigarette end drop from the ceiling - we luckily had the incident on camera which is posted below....
So, my opinion on Apports? They were definitely faked during the Victorian period, and if I hadn't witnessed them myself, I probably wouldn't believe.... but I HAVE witnessed them. It certainly seems they are some kind of message from the spirit world. If you are a paranormal investigator or ghost hunter, I really hope you get to see one for real, one day....
Table tipping, is a form of physical mediumship – this simply means that the medium produces
the energy for the spirit to use. It is a physical phenomenon.
Again, with the assistance of a medium (me!), loved ones in spirit
will communicate with their friends and family members through the table
by tapping out messages or, of course, you can find out about the life of a
spirit in a haunted location by asking yes and no questions. Literally,
through the energy of the sitters and Spirit, the table rises on one, two, or
(if you are incredibly lucky) all legs to tip, tap and knock.
I have had spirits play a tune or copy the taps and knocks I
have made and I have seen many other people do it too. Please have a look at
the video below you will see what I mean...
