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Journal 2007

Humans are biologically programmed to recognise shapes and patterns (this is one
mechanism believed to be responsible for our ability to recognise so many faces of people
we know or people we may have only seen once or twice in our lifetimes). Just as with our
sense of sight, we are also programmed to detect the slightest hint of a recognisable
sound/pattern in noises we hear. Evolutionists sometimes put this down to being possibly
one of our reasons of survival. This trait of recognising shapes/faces/etc in images and
sounds/words/sentences in sound recordings is known as Pareidolia, as mentioned in
Chapter 2 of this e-book.
History behind EVP
The earliest known attempt to contact the spirit world using EVP was done by the well
respected Thomas Edison in 1928.

Source: http://www.nndb.com/people/333/000022267/edison-in-lab.jpg

It is claimed that Edison himself "came back" from the dead himself once he had passed
away and spoke through a clairvoyant with regards to how future generations could
improve on his work. He claimed through this clairvoyant that people were able to modify
their televisions and tune them to 740 Megahertz in order to get paranormal effects.
Whether this tale in itself is true largely depends on your own personal view of the
plausibility of the clairvoyant in question or clairvoyancy in general!
However, not put off by this possibility, a whole host of people (scientists and otherwise)
continued research into EVP involving a large array of recording devices. Research led
onto side streams of EVP through recording devices onto such devices as telephones
including the work of Scott Rego and Raymond Bayless in the 1960's whom conducted

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