Who found the 1st E.V.P.?

Question

There is an ongoing debate who found the first Electronic Voice Phenomnea (e.v.p.) there are many opinons, theories and thoughts ? What is the first thing you find online for research or tell me if you know im curious to see what you guys find out

Ryan ~Paranormal Researcher/Investigator~
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Answer 1

hmm I thought edison was the first. since he was very intered in the afterlife, but i am probably wrong
edit: cant wait to hear the science buffs chime in on this one! LOL

Answer 2

Good question. Edison may have been working on such a device, but there are some resources which say that Edison was just joking about creating such a device, and others that say that Edison was quite serious (see the two links below.) Which is true? I personally can't say for sure, but I would not be surprised if Edison dabbled in psychic explorations, and I tend to trust the journalistic integrity of Martin Gardner who wrote the 2nd piece linked below.

In any case, it wasn't Edison who recorded the first EVP. I'm sure it was some obscure ghost hunter or paranormalist who was reviewing the audio tape the next day, heard something unexplained, and the idea of the EVP was born.

Answer 3

Good question. I really don't know who the first was I do know that investigators have tried all current methods as long as there has been investigations. Have you read Troy Taylor's Ghost Hunters Guide? He is weak in some areas but one thing I do like about him is he does an excellent job in his chapter devoted to past investigators. He is also the only one I know of who teaches modern ghost hunters how to use the old methods like using a compass if you can't afford a EMF meter. This works actually quite well. Most others just touch on the subject. My favorite author and book is Trent Brandon and his Ghost Hunters Bible

It has been a while since I read any of my books with the historical investigators but it really is interesting.

By the way I like your new signature. It may just be me but it looks more professional.
BB

Edit:

I agree with those above Edison is probably the first and I believe he was working a way to record voices of the dead when he died. I will have to dig out some of my books and see . It has been awhile since I read most of them

Answer 4

Ryan...I don't think anyone is ignoring you....there's just never anyone on this time of night. Seems like a lot of people come on during the night...guess they live in another time zone.It's 1:30 now where I am...I'm going to bed.There are usually a lot of Q&A's by the time I get up in the morning...esp. since this is the weekend. The morning people will be on. I don't know anything about EVPs...that's why I didn't answer your question. Good Night!!!Later!
EDIT.. I learned this today from tv...Thomas Edison was the first to put lights on a Christmas tree. His neighbors saw him and copied him.(since we're talking about Edison).

Answer 5

Thomas Edison was the first but many here are listed as wanting to be known as the first, but who had access first to recording devices?
American photographer Attila Von Szalay, psychologists Raymond Bayless and Konstantin Raudive, and film producer Friedrich Jürgenson. inventor William O'Neill, backed by industrialist George Meek, built a 'Spiricom' device which was said to facilitate very clear communication with the spirit world through EVP.

Answer 6

Thomas Alva Edison (the man who invented the light bulb) worked for the latter part of his life trying to build a machine for two way communication between the material and spirit worlds.

He would be a good bet for discovering EVP.

Answer 7

excerpt from article by Tim Haigh:

If we crawl back through psychic history to 1900, we find reference to a little known American anthropologist named Waldemar Bogoras. It was he who conducted the first known experiment in which voices of "conjured spirits" were recorded on an electrical recording device. Bogoras was on a trip to Siberia to visit a shaman of the Tchoutchi tribe when his experience took place. In a darkened room, he observed a spirit conjuring ritual that entailed the shaman beating a drum more and more rapidly while entering a trance state. Startled, Bogoras heard strange voices filling the room. The voices seemed to come from all corners and spoke English and Russian. After the session, Bogoras wrote: "I set up my equipment so I could record without the light. The shaman sat in the furthest corner of the room, approximately 20 feet away from me. When the light was extinguished, the spirits appeared after some hesitation and, following the wishes of the shaman, spoke into the horn of the phonograph. The recording showed a clear difference between the speech of the shaman, audible in the background, and the spirit voices which seemed to have been located directly at the mouth of the horn. All along the shaman's ceaseless drumbeats could be heard as if to prove that he remained in the same spot."

Then around 1925, the first attempt to record spirit voices in the West was made by the eminent scientist Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the electric light, who together with his assistant Dr. Miller Hutchinson was busily at work in his laboratory building a machine to achieve spirit communication. In his diary Hutchinson wrote: "Edison and I are convinced that in the fields of psychic research will yet be discovered facts that will prove of greater significance to the thinking of the human race than all the inventions we have ever made in the field of electricity." Edison was to pass into spirit before achieving his goal.

Answer 8

See AA-EVP.
The American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomenon.
The person who pioneered serious study is Sarah Estep.

Answer 9

Since it's auditory pareidolia I would say anyone who first noticed that anomalous patterns can resemble a person's native tongue discovered that recorded sounds could be misinterpreted.