As our organization progresses, we are learning more and more about phenomena
that is being misunderstood and misrepresented by the vast majority of paranormal investigators that specialize in investigating
ghostly phenomena. We feel that it is our duty to share what we learn, as we learn it, so that we can better the
field of paranormal research as a whole.
We will not be covering phenomena such as orbs and mists here because, frankly,
if you don't see the obvious issues with presenting this garbage as evidence, then reading the rest of this page will
not change your way of thinking regardless of what you are shown here. This information is for those who are trying
to improve their investigative technique.
The more time we spend recording for audio anomalies, the more we are able to rationalize
some anomalies that we see presented as evidence by many of the groups operating these days. Below are some of
the anomalies that we recorded during our investigation that might be misinterpreted as being paranormal.
The Anomalous Laugh
- In 2007 we recorded what to us sounded like a child's laugh occurring as a frightened museum
employee was describing a seemingly paranormal event that she had experienced just seconds earlier. We took this anomaly rather
seriously because we could not explain the source of the laugh.
- In October of 2008 we came across
the same type of anomaly that had strikingly similar circumstances where a female was relating a story of something that had
just frightened her during our investigation. The anomaly was also a higher pitched laugh that sounded female.
Both examples
2007 Anomaly
2008 Anomaly
We cannot fully explain this type of anomaly because in both cases, we do not remember
either individual laughing in such a pronounced fashion, if at all. However, with the similarities involved with the
two separate anomalies documented at two seperate investigation sites, involving two separate women, we have no choice
but to discount this type of anomaly in the future unless we have video footage to eliminate the subject and investigators
as the source of the anomaly.
Both women were relating a paranormal account.
Both laughs seemed to occur just as the subjects were completing their statements. Both anomalies were laughs that could have
been female. Both anomalies were documented by multiple devices that were spaced throughout the investigation sites,
and all contained the same effect. We are convinced that an acoustical characteristic of a high pitched laugh verses
normal speech is involved here. In some fashion that we can't currently explain, the higher frequency range is making
it to the microphone faster than the frequency of normal speech producing the illusion that the subjects own laugh is actually
the laugh of an unseen source that is reacting before the female subject completes their statement.
Many of our investigations have given us anomalies that seem to be unexplainable whispering
occurring very near the recording device when no one is near, or even in the same environment as the device.
In September, we encountered quite a bit of whispering that seemed near a microphone on the
second floor of a residence while all persons present at the time, were verified by multiple video cameras as being on
the first floor engaged in conversation.
We were fortunate enough to prove beyond
a shadow of a doubt that the investigators on the first floor were the source of the whispers that were seemingly right next
to the microphone on the second floor. Once again, an acoustical issue is the root cause of this type of anomaly.
After applying this new found information to all such anomalies that we have documented, we decided to downgrade
the vast majority of those samples as being explainable by acoustics.
Below
is the file that definitively explained the whisper phenomenon. This piece of audio is special
because the investigator speeking is describing an anomaly that he just heard while doing real time analysis
and mimicked what he heard. The normal speaking tone of his voice is obviously distant as he was a floor below
the recording device, but his whisper sounded as if it was on the second floor near the boom microphone. We encourage
you to use headphones while listening to this to get the full effect.
Whispering Anomaly Explained
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Whistling
Anomaly.
During 2007 we investigated a house known as the Sullivan House that is claimed to be haunted
by the spirit of a little girl. During that investigation, only two investigators at a time were allowed into the home.
During one of those instances, two investigators were trying to elicit a response to their questioning and believed they heard
a tapping noise coming from a wine glass. They were engaged in trying to document that tapping noise. Upon analysis
of the audio, we found what sounded like a very distinct whistle in the background. We placed it in our archives as
something abnormal and unexplained.
On a later
investigation at a train museum, we recorded the exact same notes being whistled. The only common denominator was the
recorder being used at both investigations. We have since determined that this whistling sound occurs quite frequently
during our investigations and is explainable as a quality issue of lower and mid-range digital voice recorders. Below
are both examples, one being very prominent, and the other very subtle.
First Whistling Anomaly
Secondary Whistling Anomaly