SOME FINDINGS RELATING TO THE ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOMENON (ALEXANDER MACRAE)

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PSI RESEARCH March 1984 PSI RESEARCH
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SOME FINDINGS RELATING TO THE ELECTRONIC
VOICE PHENOMENON
Alexander MacRae
Skye, Scotland
Born ir, Skye, Scotland, MacRae studied electronics
in London, for a time under Sir Geoffrey
Housfield, FRS, joint Nobel laureate. Working at
Palo Alto, he designed communications systems for
NASA - one design being used as recently as the
first Space Shuttle. He currently lecatudres in
Scotland on Information Technology,
director of a small electronics company. His
studiei of "paranormal" voices on tapes represent
a scientific approach to one of most controversial
phenomena of our time. - Ed.
This paper relates some recent findings in EVP by the
author, and suggests that the Electronic Voice Phenomenon
(or paranormal voices) is a psi phenomenon which - with
current equipment - can be produced f requently and
predictably by anyone trained in its use. Because of the
availability of results it has been possible to come to some
preliminary conclusions, and these are the subject of this
paper.
ectronic voice phenomenon - first came
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EVP - t
my attention in 1979, and having read about it, I decided to
try some experiments - but without any noticeable success.
In 1982 1 got in touch with some of the few remaining EVP
investigators left in the UK.
The "field" seemed to proceed in the most unscientific
manner, nothing was ever measured, although the words
"research" and "expert" were bandied around like tokens in a
game of "let's play scientists." Instead of measurement,
judgment by recourse to reputation was the rule, indeed
"reputation" was the name of the game, it seems. There was
a sort of subjective scale for rating the "quality" of
utterances, although it is doubtful if it was actually
quality in the Hi-Fi senses of bandwidth, and absence of
distortion, that was being assessed - instead there was a
vague idea of signal/noise ration involved.
One of my first suggestions was to try to assess the
probability of recording an utterance in a given time
period, from which one could then derive a measure for the
quantity of "communication" being produced, by which various
systems - then being adjudicated, sometimes quite viciously,
by reference to reputation - could be objectively evaluated.
I suggested also that simply establishing that there was a
correlation between a stimulus (a question from the
experimenter) and a presumed response, was sufficient
evidence - if replicable - of a phenomenon. But all this
fell on deaf ears.
I virtually abandoned the whole thing, but one factor
kept nagging me. I had observed that almost all EVP
utterances had a duration of between 0.7 and 2.2 seconds,
with a pronounced probability peak around 1.75 secs.
Now this was against nature. If the phenomenon was
purely a random event, a chance recording of bits of
telephone conversations, radio plays, or the like - then the
spread of durations for the utterances should show.this
randomness. There is no good reason why an utterance should
lie in this slot around 1.75 secs. Various time constants
were considered - but none of them could provide a plausible
explanation for all circumstances.
It seemed to be a definite phenomenon, extending even
to longer statements, which might consist of one 1.75 sea
segment, then a pause, finally another 1.75 sea segment.
When all looked black, I clung to this one little bit of
objective truth, ignored by the "experts."
In early 1983 I started producing my own EVP, using a
piece of equipment designed for another purpose. The
"quality" was very poor, but results were being obtained
predictably. At first I could not believe it and felt sure
it was CB breakthrough, or ship-to-shore radio, or somesuch.
But these were gradually eliminated. The first voice
recorded used a characteristic phrase of my late father - a
factor suspicious enough to make me very careful of my own
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