My Experience with the Paranormal
I had been involved in paranormal investigation for a couple of years before the movie White Noise came out in 2005. Up until that point I had mostly focused on spirit photos and making a written record of the phenomena I had experienced. After the movie, I became obsessed with the idea of capturing an actual EVP.
It wasn’t the movie itself, that triggered my interest but the recorded spirit voices that were played along with the opening credits. Those voices spoke to me – which should have been a red flag but wasn’t.
Not long after the movie came out, I began recording at various locations, both on my own and in the company of friends. My favorite spot for EVP recording was cemeteries. In the beginning, I got nothing but static. But within a few weeks I captured my first clear EVP.
I was very excited. So excited in fact, that I didn’t care that the voice I had recorded was low pitched and ominous.
My First EVP
The EVP itself (which you can listen to below) was only a single word and while most people (including myself) thought the word spoken was ‘good’ others heard it differently. What was clear was that it was a word and it that it seemed to be spoken in answer to my question. It also had a quality I would soon recognize in other preternatural communications of slightly overlapping the question posed.
At the time, I believed I’d recorded a human spirit, just as claimed in “White Noise” and various books I had read. And another twelve years would pass before I would fully understand that the spirits I had been communicating with were far from benign.
A Catholic Perspective
This is not to say that departed humans cannot contact the living. Only that it is a rare occurrence which happens within very narrow perimeters. According to Church-decreed expert on religious demonology and auxiliary member of the International Association of Exorcists, Adam Blai:
There are Church approved books describing many instances of souls manifesting to the living to signal their need for prayer… Though souls in purgatory have been allowed to speak to the saints, that is usually not the situation for the average person…. In the cases of the saints they did not call up the spirits or seek guidance, information, or comfort from them. Once the request for prayer was made communication stopped on both sides… Any communication beyond “help me,” or some other request for prayer, is almost certainly demonic deception. – Possessions, Exorcisms and Hauntings
As Blai points out, often the first word paranormal investigators hear in their investigations is ‘help me’ which is a request for prayer. Sadly, in most cases, no prayers are said. Instead investigators continue to request communication with any available spirits.
Most paranormal investigators aren’t aware that they’re interacting with demonic spirits masquerading as deceased human beings – just like the one I recorded. Like me, very few realize the influence of such spirits is eventually and inevitably dark.
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