Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Kitaro and EVP

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Okay; just to make it clear beforehand, i have absolutely no belief whatsoever in supernatural...but I found this really interesting...this is EVP-Electronic Voice Phenomenon; an alleged communication by spirits through tape recorders and other electronic devices...in the above video, EVP from various sources are mixed with some music...

After World War II, tape recorders became affordable for the average person, and some paranormal investigators began taping their séances. Sometimes when they played the tape back, they heard voices or sounds that were not there when the tape was originally made... this is nothing but EVP ...and it has been mushrooming eversince..

Interest in EVP apparently began in the 1920s. An interviewer from Scientific American asked Thomas Edison about the possibility of contacting the dead. Edison, a man of no strong religious views, said that nobody knows whether “our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere” but

"it is possible to construct an apparatus which will be so delicate that if there are personalities in another existence or sphere who wish to get in touch with us in this existence or sphere, this apparatus will at least give them a better opportunity to express themselves than the tilting tables and raps and ouija boards and mediums and the other crude methods now purported to be the only means of communication." (Clark 1997: 235)

And though nobody knows for sure, that Edison had anything similar to EVP in mind while saying that..and though Skeptics and Paranormal Scientists(as they call themselves) both have their own facts and arguments... its almost like an experiment, and you can get lots of information from the web, how to make you own EVP cassette, if you so desire...