evphistory

One of the world's most respected scientists, Thomas Alva Edison,
believed that it would one day be possible to build a machine
that would help humans communicate with the dead. He once
said - If our personality survives, then it is strictly logical or
scientific to assume that it retains memory, intellect, other faculties,
and knowledge that we acquire on this Earth. Therefore ... if we can
evolve an instrument so delicate as to be affected by our
personality as it survives in the next life, such an instrument,
when made available, ought to record something.

Unfortunately, Edison did not live to see his invention take
shape. In 1949, Marcello Bacci of Italy began recording
voices with an old tube radio. People would come
to Bacci's home to talk with their departed relatives.
A few years later, two Italian priests named Father Ernetti
and Father Gemelli were trying to record a Gregorian chant
on their magnetophone, but the machine kept breaking.
Exasperated, Father Gemelli looked up and asked his father
for help. To his surprise, his dead father's voice answered
from the magnetophone, "Of course I shall help you.
I'm always with you."

One of the most well-known EVP researchers of the 20th
century was a Swedish opera singer, painter and film producer
named Friedrich Jurgenson. His interest in electronic voice
phenomena was sparked one day in 1959, when he recorded the
sounds of birds singing in a forest. When he played the tape
back, he heard a female voice say, "Friedrich, you are
being watched. Friedel, my little Friedel, can you hear me?"
It was the voice of his dead mother. Jurgenson went on
to record many other voices over the next four years, and he
published two books: "Voices From the Universe" and
"Radio Contact with the Dead."

Dr. Konstantin Raudive, a Latvian psychologist, heard of
Jurgenson's experiments several years later. At first he
was skeptical, but then he tried the technique himself
and wound up recording many voices, including that
of his deceased mother.

In the 1960s and 1970s, EVP became a legitimate, if
controversial, arm of paranormal research. American
researchers George and Jeanette Meek and psychic
William O'Neil recorded hundreds of hours of EVP with
radio oscillators. They claim to have worked closely
with another scientist, Dr. George Jeffries Mueller. The
only catch was that Mueller was deceased.