Podcast appearances and mentions of sarah estep

New year's intentions, 2024We set our intentions for the year, share our words for the year, and discuss specific goals in various categories.Life LatelyAbby is looking forward to time with family over the holiday (plus Tex-Mex!).Sarah shares to home winds: the headboard Neil made and all the secondhand plants.Reading latelyAbby found a new romance series by Sarah Estep--the Brunch Bros.Sarah read the technology parenting book Growing Up In Public by Devorah Heitner.Eating latelySarah found success with a traditional caramel recipe and Abby enjoyed apple cider caramels made by a friend. We recommend this thermometer that attaches to the pan.If you'd like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment, email us at friendlierpodcast@gmail.com, or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Todd Bates is the founder of WLTK-DB, Host of Haunted Voices and The Producers Show, Narrator of the Show Ghost Finders and Author of The Haunted Voice. He passionate about all things EVP & Paranormal with over 20 years in the field. Collecting specialized evidence of paranormal origin and sharing it with his amazing audiences is a life calling. After years of personally investigating the mysteries of EVP and studying under pioneering figures in the field, such as Sarah Estep, and Jason Snider he decided to share his passion. Now in its 18th year, Haunted Voices has quickly grown to be one of the oldest paranormal talk shows on the internet today. Todd now owns and operates WLTK-DB Talk Radio, a paranormal talk digital radio station and has recently wrote an autobiographical book about his life, The Haunted Voice with how is journey with the paranormal started, his battle with alcoholism, and more.  www.toddmichaelbates.com

Chances are you would have found him in a mysterious abandoned home, walls yellowed by age and doors teetering precariously on their hinges. Maybe a murder occurred or perhaps a fire. Whatever the case, Todd Bates was on the scene for a singular task: listening for the voices of the dead. Now retired from the field, Todd takes his knowledge gained and shares it with his amazing audience on his radio show Haunted Voices. Todd's Passion is and forever will be EVP. Electronic Voice Phenomenon (commonly referred to as “EVP”) are spirit voices captured on a digital or analog recording device that was not heard with the naked ear. For Todd, collecting this specialized evidence of paranormal origin is a life calling. After years of personally investigating the mysteries of EVP and studying under pioneering figures in the field, Sarah Estep, and Jason Snider he took his passion to the internet. Now in its 18th year, Haunted Voices has quickly grown to be one of the oldest paranormal talk shows on the internet today. Todd Bates now owns and operates WLTK-DB Talk Radio, a paranormal talk digital radio station, and broadcasts live and original programming to its ever-growing audience of like-minded people.

Join Julia and Philip Live This Monday Night on Horsefly  Chronicle's Radio @7CST/8EST with Special Guest Todd Bates on The United Public Radio Network  Don't forget to get into chat so we can give you a shout out and also answer all of you're Questions

Todd's Passion is and forever will be EVP. Electronic Voice Phenomenon (commonly referred to as “EVP”) are spirit voices captured on a digital or analog recording device that was not heard with the naked ear. For Todd, collecting this specialized evidence of paranormal origin is a life calling. After years of personally investigating the mysteries of EVP and studying under a pioneering figure in the field, Sarah Estep, he took his passion to the internet. Now in its 17th year, Haunted Voices has quickly grown to be one of the oldest paranormal talk shows on the internet today. Todd Bates now owns and operates WLTK-DB Talk Radio, a paranormal talk digital radio station, and broadcasts live and original programming to its ever-growing audience of like-minded people Now Todd Bates first Book is coming out October 31,2022✨

Chances are you would have found him in a mysterious abandoned home, walls yellowed by age and doors teetering precariously on their hinges. Maybe a murder occurred or perhaps a fire. Whatever the case, Todd Bates was on the scene for a singular task: listening for the voices of the dead.  Now retired from the field, Todd takes his knowledge gained and shares it with his amazing audience on his radio show Haunted Voices. Todd's Passion is and forever will be EVP.  Electronic Voice Phenomenon (commonly referred to as “EVP”) are spirit voices captured on a digital or analog recording device that was not heard with the naked ear. For Todd, collecting this specialized evidence of paranormal origin is a life calling. After years of personally investigating the mysteries of EVP and studying under a pioneering figure in the field, Sarah Estep, he took his passion to the internet. Now in its 17th year, Haunted Voices has quickly grown to be one of the oldest paranormal talk shows on the internet today. Todd Bates now owns and operates WLTK-DB Talk Radio, a paranormal talk digital radio station, and broadcasts live and original programming to its ever- growing audience of like-minded people. Television: Advisor for “A Haunting” on the Discovery Channel (“Sallies House” episode); WTHI TV (CBS affiliate) “The Ashmore Experiment” 2-day event. Appeared on WTWO (NBC Affiliate). Radio: A broadcasting school graduate, Todd currently has 17 years of broadcasting experience under the Haunted Voices Radio brand and enjoys discussing all things paranormal with his guests and audience.   Todd's radio hosting career began in 2003 with Dr. Ed Craft of Magick Mind Radio (An IBC Network Program). He was offered a co-host spot with Dr. Jimmy Lowery of “Alabama Para Spiritual Radio” (APSR Radio). He was then given the opportunity to host his own live show on the BBS Radio Network where he discussed all topics paranormal. He has since appeared on The Man Cow Show, WTAY FM, WTYE AM Crawford County, IL, WZPL 99.5 Indianapolis, IN, X-zone Radio, Voice of America, and The Jeff Rense Show. Each has been a valuable experience to share his vast knowledge of the paranormal. Todd Bates Owner WLTK-DB Talk Radio www.wltkdb.com Narrator The Ghost Finders www.theghostfinders.com Moonflyers Tees is on ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ on Spring ✨

April is one of the Camp NaNoWriMo months (July being the other). And every year when Liz decides she wants to do this, she totally messes it up. Join Liz and special guest co-host Sarah Estep as we discuss what we were working on for Camp NaNoWriMo and how quickly we realized it wasn’t workingRead More

  Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of BigSeance.com with this special episode of the podcast! We'll be looking back at the TOP 10 most popular episodes! Visit BigSeance.com/204 for more info!   Other Listening Options Direct Download Link   In this episode: Intro :12 It's been 10 years since Patrick's very first blog post at BigSeance.com! "In 2012, my small paranormal investigation team had been out and about for 2 years, I would soon be inspired by Sarah Estep to do my own EVP experiments at home, and I was about 3 years into my spiritual shift that you hear me talk about often. I had just taken a channeling class where I met my spirit guide, Merlin. And I was binging every book on paranormal and spiritual topics that I could get my hands on! I was also binging every episode of both The Ghost Whisperer and Ghost Hunters. I needed a place to share my thoughts on this new journey, and I had TONS of them! Blogging was all the rage, and so on February 5th 2012, I wrote my very first blog post at BigSeance.com. It was very short, but it was about spirit guides. And looking back at this post, you can tell that I had already been marinating in books about mediumship and the Other Side, referring to the Other Side as Home, and I capitalized 'Other Side' and 'Home'." :50   Patrick's first blog post on February 5th, 2012, was about Spirit Guides. 2:20 "That was 10 years ago today. In some ways, it feels like yesterday, but at the same time it kind of feels more like 30 years ago, especially when I read my thoughts from that time." The all-time top blog post at BigSeance.com is a post about Being Able to Read in Your Dreams. To this day that post is visited by someone in the world almost every single day. The popularity of the post later inspired episode 66 of the podcast. 3:28 The all-time most popular search terms that people Googled before landing at BigSeance.com have something to do with Andrea Perron or the Perron family. The real life experiences of the Perron family inspired the Conjuring films. Andrea Perron was a guest on the Big Seance Podcast in episode 98. Another popular search term that led people here is, oddly enough, Thomas Edison or his invention, the phonograph. And as you'd expect, there are several variations of, “What does it mean if I can read in my dreams?” 3:50 "After blogging almost every single day for two years, I began producing and hosting the Big Seance Podcast. Over the past 10 years I've met so many fascinating people, and even some of you, my listeners! And there's no way to measure how much I've learned and grown." 4:28 In this special episode, Patrick channels his inner Casey Kasem to unveil the top ten most popular episodes of the Big Seance Podcast! A portion of each of those ten episodes is featured. 4:50   Let's start with Number 10! Episode 161 with Angel Medium Michael Terzi. 5:30 Number 9 is episode 159 with DeAnna Simpson, who was joined by Joni Mayhan who authored the book, The Hanover Haunting: The DeAnna Simpson Story. This story takes place in a home made popular by an episode of the Travel Channel's The Dead Files. "I will never forget the story of this one terrifying experience that I asked DeAnna to share in that episode." 10:07 Number 8 is episode 164, Ouija Paranormal and Beyond Part 1. This was one of many appearances by Karen A. Dahlman. This particular one was live streamed, and in this clip, Karen was answering a listener question. 15:45 Number 7. Episode 148. Everyday Intuition with Slade Roberson. In this clip, Slade told two stories from terrifying memories of one of his childhood homes. 17:39 Number 6 is The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm with Richard Estep, Episode 150. Here's some backstory. Fox Hollow Farm is the beautiful Indiana home, complete with indoor pool, where Herb Baumeister allegedly murdered numerous men from the gay community in the 1990s. Chances are you've heard of this place, and Richard Estep knows it well. In this clip, Richard discusses a creepy video, from local TV news, that can still be found on YouTube. 26:37 Number 5 is episode 151 with Scott L. and Amber from the Ghostly Talk podcast. In this hilarious clip, Patrick, Scott L. and Amber were laughing about things that bugged them about the paranormal field. 29:16 Number 4. From episode 152, who doesn't love Michelle Belanger? 33:11 Number 3 is another great episode with Karen A. Dahlman, episode 146. "This was one of our infamous weekends together, this time staying overnight at the haunted Lemp Mansion in St. Louis. In this clip, I'll drop you right into the middle of a Ouija seance and spirit box session in the Lavender suite." 40:27 Number 2! The second most popular episode of the Big Seance Podcast is one of Patrick's favorites - Episode 147 with the late Barb Huyser, who passed only 8 months ago. She was one of the greatest story tellers. But she was also incredible at something she called, "Paranormal Social Work." This touching story had to do with putting the ghost of a little girl on a behavior plan. 48:12 So here we go… Number 1! The most popular episode of the Big Seance Podcast is Episode 149 - What the Dead are Dying to Teach Us. This was just one of the appearances by Medium Claire Broad. 55:49 Here's to another 10 years! A special THANK YOU to Patreon supporters at the Super Paranerd and Parlor Guest level! 1:06:30 Outro 1:08:40     The Big Seance Podcast can be found right here, on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Pandora, Spotify, TuneIn Radio, Stitcher, Amazon Music, and iHeart Radio. Please subscribe and share with a fellow paranerd! Do you have any comments or feedback? Please contact me at Patrick@BigSeance.com. Consider recording your voice feedback directly from your device on my SpeakPipe page! You can also call the show and leave feedback at (775) 583-5563 (or 7755-TELL-ME). I would love to include your voice feedback in a future show. The candles are already lit, so come on in and join the séance!  

On this episode of the Afterlife Chronicles, I welcome Todd Bates, good friend and mastermind behind WLTK-db "The Let's Talk" network.  Todd's show, Haunted Voices Radio, which I co-host is one of the longest running Internet alternative talk radio programs, covering all aspects of the paranormal. This episode is devoted to electronic voice phenomena.  Todd studied under leading EVP pioneer, Sarah Estep - the founder of the American Association for Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP). Todd discussed: 1. His background in the paranormal field; 2. Theories for EVP; 3. Analog tape recorder vs. digital recorders; 4. I played some of Todd's EVP captures over the years.  We used these to discuss the EVP classification system developed by Sarah Estep.  Class A, Class B, Class C and Class R or X; 5. We also discussed ways to be respectful to the spirits during a session.  A Part II episode will follow.   

2Bio Keith J. Clark is an ITC Researcher and created iDigitalMedium.com and Varanormal.com. He is devoted to furthering knowledge of life after death and communication with spirit. In the summer of 2005, one of his friends told him that the movie White Noise was based on real events. Curious by nature, he found himself downloading a copy of Sarah Estep’s book, Voices of Eternity, which he didn’t read completely until November. That fall he experienced events that helped him overcome his addiction to substance abuse. After reading the book he immediately set out to record for EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena). Very soon all of his energy became channeled towards the study of life after death. As time progressed, multiple corroborative readings from separate mediums and psychics led him on his path. With a particular love for ITC (Instrumental Transcommunication) and physical mediumship, he began to work with spirit and network with other people in the world. www.varanormal.com www.metasciencefoundation.com www.idigitalmedium.com

Bio Keith J. Clark is an ITC Researcher and created iDigitalMedium.com and Varanormal.com. He is devoted to furthering knowledge of life after death and communication with spirit. In the summer of 2005, one of his friends told him that the movie White Noise was based on real events. Curious by nature, he found himself downloading a copy of Sarah Estep’s book, Voices of Eternity, which he didn’t read completely until November. That fall he experienced events that helped him overcome his addiction to substance abuse. After reading the book he immediately set out to record for EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena). Very soon all of his energy became channeled towards the study of life after death.  As time progressed, multiple corroborative readings from separate mediums and psychics led him on his path. With a particular love for ITC (Instrumental Transcommunication) and physical mediumship, he began to work with spirit and network with other people in the world.  www.varanormal.com www.metasciencefoundation.com www.idigitalmedium.com

ITC Researcher Keith J. Clark joins us to talk about how Krisp, a noise-canceling software that utilizes artificial intelligence to remove background noise, may help paranormal voices come through clearer during ITC/EVP research. Check out the multiple streams we talk about on the show at www.Varanormal.com. Visit the live 24/7 ITC stream "Faces in Sound" & "Voices in Sound" YouTube feed so you can experiment.  www.varanormal.com www.metasciencefoundation.com www.idigitalmedium.com Bio Keith J. Clark is an ITC Researcher and created iDigitalMedium.com and Varanormal.com. He is devoted to furthering knowledge of life after death and communication with spirit. In the summer of 2005, one of his friends told him that the movie White Noise was based on real events. Curious by nature, he found himself downloading a copy of Sarah Estep’s book, Voices of Eternity, which he didn’t read completely until November. That fall he experienced events that helped him overcome his addiction to substance abuse. After reading the book he immediately set out to record for EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena). Very soon all of his energy became channeled towards the study of life after death.  As time progressed, multiple corroborative readings from separate mediums and psychics led him on his path. With a particular love for ITC (Instrumental Transcommunication) and physical mediumship, he began to work with spirit and network with other people in the world.

Welcome back friends! A quick note: Kyle's end of the audio got kinda messed up in this recording, so he may sound kinda tinny. Nile salvaged what he could. Sorry about that! That being said, we're diving back into the history of Electronic Voice Phenomena and Instrumental Transcommunication! Who is Sarah Estep and what is her relationship with Beethoven? Who is the 'Frank' behind the famous Frank's Box? Listen and learn!

There’s more to ITC than the technology – our human energy plays just as large a part in communication with the other side, if not more so. Explore the realm of ITC (Instrumental Transcommunication) with Keith J. Clark, one of our favorite topics to explore. Are spirit voices around us all of the time and we just have to learn how to “tune” into them? Are they human spirits? Interdimensional? Alien life? Lots of deep thoughts in this show. Keith is really inspiring and reminds everyone to get involved in this research for yourself and not because you have something to prove. Bio Keith J. Clark is the creator of the websites ITCBridge and iDigitalMedium and is devoted to furthering knowledge of life after death and communication with spirit. In the summer of 2005, one of his friends told him that the movie White Noise was based on real events. Curious by nature, he found himself downloading a copy of Sarah Estep’s book, Voices of Eternity, which he didn’t read completely until November. That fall he experienced events that helped him overcome his addiction to substance abuse. After reading the book he immediately set out to record for EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena). Very soon all of his energy became channeled towards the study of life after death. As time progressed, multiple corroborative readings from separate mediums and psychics led him on his path. With a particular love for ITC (Instrumental Transcommunication) and physical mediumship, he began to work with spirit and network with other people in the world.

Get freaked out by the lifelong EVP work of Sarah Estep and celebrate the vernal equinox with a crash course on plant poisons! Also, Steph saw a rhombus UFO.

In search of evidence for an afterlife, Association TransCommunication was founded in 1982 by Sarah Estep to provide objective evidence that we survive death in an individual conscious state. This is a fascinating area of study and the ATransC website is a tremendous resource for anyone remotely interested in the topic of life after death. Quick redirect as noted from the website: “If what you know about EVP is based on movies like White Noise or from television, then everything you know about EVP is very wrong. Please read a few of the techniques articles on this website and leave your TV turned off.” - Tom Butler Tom and Lisa Butler, Directors of the Association TransCommunication post [samples of their EVP recordings](https://atransc.org/butler-evp-cal-neva/). Very clear. I spoke with Tom about their research. Book: There is No Death and There are No Dead by Tom and Lisa Butler, AA-EVP Publishing, 2003, ISBN: 0-9727493-0-6, 292 pages, $18, Amazon.com [Wendy's Coffeehouse Blog continued .](https://wendyscoffeehouse.blogspot.com/2018/10/association-transcommunication-director.html)..

This week I am talking to Tom Butler. Tom, with his wife Lisa, are the directors of the Association TransCommunication. I talk to Tom about electronic voice phenomena, his book Your Immortal Self and his visits to physical mediums.The Association TransCommunication (ATransC) was founded by Sarah Estep in 1982 as the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP). Her objective was to “provide objective evidence that we survive physical death in our individual conscious state.”http://atransc.org/

Welcome back! Today the Ghouls discuss electronic voice phenomena (or E.V.P. for the paranormal cool kids). We talk about the history of recording voices of the dead with Friedrich Jurgenson, to the questionable claims of Sarah Estep recording "THE FAMOUS BEETHOVEN", to contemporary ghost hunter EVP and weird stuff caught on baby monitors and phone apps. As usual, some of it is creepy AF and some are laughably bad, but we'll let you decide!  Subscribe at ghoulsjustwannahavefun.com and send us your spooky stories at ghoulsjustwannahavefunpodcast@gmail.com   Links, links, links: Sleep Talking App: https://soundcloud.com/user345718345/sleep-as-android-recording-original Alien noises from Baby Monitor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6n4jl8kMMQ Demon Voices in North Carolina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=265&v=RAyclE_P1yw Sarah Estep Beethoven EVP: http://www.worlditc.org/h_22_estep.htm Empty Basement EVP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aGk0zZGX04 EVP Children's Voices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=_dyQynXs-LM  

We welcome Todd Bates - EVP expert, Paranormal personality, and Radio Show Host extraordinaire - to our show on this special Thursday edition of Mystic Moon Cafe!Todd's bio: Chances are you'll find him in a mysterious abandoned home, walls yellowed by age and doors teetering precariously on their hinges. Maybe a murder occurred or perhaps a fire. Whatever the case, Todd Bates is on the scene for a singular task: listening for voices of the dead.Electronic Voice Phenomenon (commonly referred to as "EVP") is spirit voices captured on a digital or analog recording device that were not heard with the naked ear at the time of their recording. For Todd, collecting this specialized evidence of paranormal origin is a life calling. After years of personally investigating the mysteries of EVP and studying under a pioneering figure in the field, Sarah Estep, he took his passion to the Internet. Now in its 13th year, HauntedVoices.com has quickly grown to be one of the most successful Electronic Voice Phenomenon-based websites on the Internet dedicated to research, education and discussion. The site is also the home to the Haunted Voices Radio. The network of live & archived programs provide audio material 24 hours a day and Todd acts as program director and its flagship talk show host.Todd has collected some of the most impressive examples of the phenomenon available today and currently teaches his capturing techniques and paranormal investigation protocol via private and on-air lessons.

Patrick's presentation from Troy Taylor's American Hauntings Fall Festival, Becoming a Paranerd: A Brief Tour Through My Paranormal World. Plus 15 Reasons to Befriend a Paranormal Nerd Today! Visit BigSeance.com for more info. Pssst... Want to leave voice feedback? Use the SpeakPipe Link! In this episode:  Intro :00 A Special Announcement! Mark your calendars, because Karen A. Dahlman, along with her board partner Rodney, will be joining me LIVE once again, but this time for a seance for the Halloween season on October 14th at 7pm Central Time. Go to BigSeance.com/LIVE for more details! :53 Spectral Edition with Tim Prasil (New England’s Most Haunted) 3:35 International Podcast Day is September 30th! How will YOU celebrate? Visit InternationalPodcastDay.com for more info. 8:10 A road trip to Jacksonville, Illinois to speak at Troy Taylor’s American Haunting’s Fall Festival. 8:37 The audio of my presentation, titled Becoming a Paranerd: A Brief Tour Through My Paranormal World 13:09 Do you know what a podcast is? 15:30 It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to talk about in this presentation. 18:15 The beginnings of me becoming a paranerd and my “Spiritual Shift" 19:10 It all started with a paranormal tv show and a book. (Early seasons of Ghost Hunters, and Ghosts Among Us by James Van Praagh) 23:45 More on my obsession with books. 26:28 The Paranormal Podcast with Jim Harold 28:55 Forming Missouri Spirit Seekers, my own paranormal investigation team 31:20 That very first EVP really sucks you in! (Frieden’s United Church of Christ in St. Charles, Missouri, and It’s All Over Me) 35:10 Paranormal Burnout 41:17 The beginnings of The Big Seance as a blog 42:10 Inspired by Sarah Estep and EVP Research 42:53 My rapper - Spirit Communication through knocking and tapping 44:22 Cemetery Photography (My Flickr Page) 45:35 The Big Seance Podcast 46:10 The audio of the Big Seance Podcast Highlights Video (Check out the link to the actual video.) 47:42 My final thoughts at the end of the presentation. 55:29 15 Reasons to Befriend a Paranormal Nerd Today! 56:29 Outro 1:01:30   Record your voice feedback directly from your device on my SpeakPipe page! Call the show at (775) 583-5563 (or 7755-TELL-ME). I would love to include your voice feedback in a future show. Visit BigSéance.com for more information.   Please help The Big Séance Podcast by subscribing, rating, and reviewing the show on iTunes, TuneIn Radio, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and iHeart Radio. 

EVP expert Tom Butler, with his wife Lisa, is director of the Association TransCommunication (ATransC), which was founded by Sarah Estep in 1982 as the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena. He has conducted a number of formal studies intended to establish the objectivity of Instrumental TransCommunication. This means using technology in different ways to communicate to our loved ones who are no longer alive on Earth. Tom has a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics engineering and has served as a strategic planner, design and project engineer in the communications industry. However for over 50 years studies into something quite different…the Afterlife. He has personally authored several books including “There is No Death and There are No Dead,” and his latest book, “Your Immortal Self.” I am so grateful to interview Tom on this episode as he and his wife Lisa are the reason I talk publicly about life after death. I will tell you why on this show! Please find out more about Tom Butler on his websites: http://ethericstudies.org/ and http://atransc.org/ and read his wonderful books here: http://amzn.to/2cZyGxZ

Call the show (775) 583-5563!   Are you fascinated by the EVP examples you hear on your favorite paranormal television shows? Have you ever wanted to learn just how to conduct an EVP session? Or maybe you’re already actively involved in an area of spirit communication, but you’d like to learn about someone else’s process and hear a new perspective on EVP. In this episode, I share the techniques that I’ve learned and use in my research on Electronic Voice Phenomena.    Visit BigSeance.com for more show notes.   How to Record EVP: The Session   There are many many ways of recording for and capturing EVP. For decades, people all over the world have successfully recorded spirit voices in their own individual way. There are basic techniques and there are techniques that are rather complicated, some requiring more equipment and more explanation. There are also techniques that due to times changing and new technology, are just outdated.  My experiences with EVP began as a paranormal investigator, but more recently it comes from research and conducting various experiments and seances, mostly in my home.  I want to make it clear that my intention for this episode is to share how I typically go about recording for EVP during experiments in my own home, specifically. The process might be a bit different during a paranormal investigation, especially if you are investigating with a group. And before I really get into my process, I have to give some credit to the following researchers/authors who have influenced me in recent years: the late Sarah Estep, one of America’s great EVP pioneers; Tom and Lisa Butler, directors of Association TransCommunication; and Randall Keller, a wise and experienced researcher who has been a great mentor. And he’s also a former guest of the podcast, from Episode #8 from August 14, 2014. A lot of what I know and the “how to” came directly from these folks in one way or another.   My technique for recording EVP   Determine your location/recording environment Quiet and comfortable Avoid bad energy/pick a feel good place Be familiar with your surroundings (noises and sounds) Ideally, you will want to record when you are alone in the house or location Document the location and details of others in the house if you're not alone. Pick a time of day where the neighborhood (if that is an issue for you) is at its quietest.  Document specific equipment you’re using (if it’s out of the ordinary). Document anything you may be trying or changing as far as technique goes. Document anything odd in your surroundings for a session.    Recorders and their placement Use a digital audio recorder with USB capabilities I use the Sony ICD PX-820 and Sony ICD PX-720, and they’re nearly identical. They’re also old models, so don’t go looking for them on Amazon, unless you’re wanting a used one. I also use a nicer and techier Tascam DR-07 with an external Tascam microphone. In my opinion, it is important to use two recorders at the same time for sessions. These recorders should be different models or brands. This may help you to rule out questionable sounds that could be picked up or more easily explained in another recorder.  EVP are not often recorded in multiple recorders at one time. If I hear something or a voice out-of-place in one recorder, but not in the other, I’m more likely to believe it is truly paranormal and possibly an EVP. Place your recorders near you, probably on opposite sides of the room, but far enough away where you won’t hear your every breath. Using headphones or ear buds? Maybe. Maybe not.    Advice for saving time and frustration later Starting both recorders at the same time (or close to it) will be very helpful when comparing time stamps during analysis. Get in the habit of “tagging” while investigating or during an EVP session.    Just before the session Brief meditation or prayer. State intentions. I invite spirits/guides/loved ones to help in sending or inviting appropriate spirits to help with research and to learn about life on the other side. Sometimes before a session I’ll simply play relaxation or meditation music lightly in the background to help me chill out. Be in a good place or frame of mind when practicing any form of spirit communication.   The Actual EVP Session Click record and allow for at least 30 seconds of silence. Re-state verbal request for protection/invitation  State the date and time Briefly describe the equipment used and where it is placed Document anything unusual in the environment Once again state intentions Begin by asking some basic identifying questions. Give 100% respect Don't interrogate. Don't assume you're smarter because you're alive. Don’t assume they want or need your help. Don’t assume they’re miserable. Don't assume they're “earthbound”, troubled, or in need of help. Do not jump to the conclusion that because you've captured an EVP, your home is haunted. Some very impressive and historic examples of spirit communication have come from spirits reporting to be communicating from a kind of station used for communicating from the other side. Further questions might be more specific, possibly relate to a specific spirit, or be no different than elements of a conversation you'd have with a living person. Allow plenty of time (20 to 30 seconds) in between questions. If you have a complicated or deep question in mind, consider breaking it up into smaller chunks.   If you experience activity during the session I don’t always instigate it, but as you may know from a previous episode of the podcast, often I get spirits who like to let me know of their presence by knocks or “rapping”. I guess it’s just the best way for some spirits to communicate with me. When this happens, I roll with it, and I try to continue the communication through the rapping. In my opinion, this kind of communication is just as fascinating and noteworthy as EVP. Sometimes at the end of a session I’ll ask for some kind of validation through touch or the moving of an object. If you’re comfortable with it, why not ask? I know that when I get two or three loud knocks or raps when I ask for it, or if I ever capture a recorder being moved across the table, I’ll be way more likely to be confident about any EVP captured in that session. To hear examples from my sessions where I communicate with spirits through rapping and knocking, be sure to listen to Episode #6 from July 30, 2014.    Before ending a session Give any spirits present the opportunity to give feedback or suggestions to make the research, or the communication in general, more successful. Thank those present for their energy and presence and invite them to return for future sessions.   I think my sessions are longer than most people prefer. A typical session for me is 15 to 20 minutes. Just remember that depending on how thorough you are during the analysis of your audio recordings, it will take at the very least twice as long to listen and analyze as it took to record. Some of my more complicated and longer sessions can take a day or more to get through. And that’s just with one recorder. You get the picture.    Other techniques and tools that you can combine with your EVP session The use of background noise, such as "white" or "pink noise", or even taking advantage of explainable noises in the environment. Many believe, and some are convinced, that using background noise during EVP sessions may help entities to communicate. I will sometimes use a “spirit box” or any device that will help me practice the “radio sweep” method of capturing what is an example of “opportunistic EVP”. Avoid falling for pareidolia. One last tool that I tend to use now, won’t surprise most of you at all. But I will also spend some time in my session, often by myself, but sometimes with a partner, using the Ouija board. As of this date, after around 3 years of occasional use of the Ouija, I’ve yet to experience or capture movement on the board. With that being said, I have captured a possible EVP that I’ve shared with listeners in a past episode. This communication seems to say “Ouijee… board” after I asked “what am I touching” during a Ouija session. Pretty cool, if you ask me. That was in Episode #5 from July 23rd, 2014, and was my first interview with Karen A. Dahlman.    So as you can see… there are so many things you can do with an EVP session. You can have a very basic session, or you can be very detailed, go crazy with it, and pretty much make a full-time study of it. But as I always say, as long as you’re being respectful and have good positive intentions, there’s nothing wrong with it. Just be smart and have fun.    Perhaps in a future episode, I’ll get into how you can listen to and analyze your recordings, in search of those possible spirit voices.   Also in this episode: Listener Feedback Check out Todd Moster's Kickstarter Project - The Afterlife Files Sneak Peak at next week's episode with returning guest, Karen A. Dahlman!   Record your voice feedback directly from your device on my SpeakPipe page! 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