Jürgenson, Raudive & A Brief History of EVP

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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An evolution of centuries-long efforts to contact and communicate with the dead, the practice of recording voices from the great beyond was attempted almost as soon as radio and tape recording technology became widely available in consumer devices. From garbled electrical chirps emanating out of swathes of white noise, to perfectly clear, eloquent speech, the results across the years have been as varied as they have been numerous. Up there with the capturing of “orbs” on camera in regards to its plausibility, EVP Research has somehow survived sceptical analysis and become a surprisingly persistent area of parapsychology. Though there were several pioneers in the space, there was one man who was supposedly so invested in the subject by the time of his death that he decided to come back and continue the job from the afterlife, through the medium of the telephone. SOURCES Jürgenson, Friedrich (1967) Voice Transmissions with the Deceased. Firework, Sweden. Raudive, Konstantin. (1971) Breakthrough: An Amazing Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead. Smythe, UK. Roach, Mary. (2005). Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. W.W. Norton & Co. UK. Banks, Joe (2001) Rorschach Audio: Ghost Voices and Perceptual Creativity. Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 11, pp 77-83. MIT Press, USA. Estep, Sarah (1988) Voices of Eternity. Fawcett Gold Medal, NY, USA. Estep, Sarah (2005) Roads to Eternity. Glade Press, MN, USA. Moreman, Christopher M. (2013) The Spiritualist Movement: Speaking with the Dead in America and Around the World. ABC-CLIO, CA, USA. ---------- For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	An evolution of centuries-long efforts to contact and communicate with the dead, the practice
0:05.5	of recording voices from the Great Beyond was attempted almost as soon as radio and tape
0:09.8	recording technology became widely available in consumer devices.
0:13.9	From garbled electronic chirps emanating our sways of white noise to perfectly clear eloquent
0:19.3	speech, the results across the years have been as varied as they have been numerous.
0:23.9	Up there with the capturing of orbs on camera in regards to its plausibility, EVP research
0:29.0	has somehow survived sceptical analysis and become a surprisingly persistent area of
0:33.6	parapsychology.
0:34.6	Though there were several pioneers in the space, there was one man who was supposedly
0:39.4	so invested in the subject that by the time of his death, he decided to come back and
0:43.6	continue the job from the afterlife through the medium of the telephone.
0:47.4	Is it Dark History's when the facts are worse than fiction?
0:56.4	Hello and welcome to Dark History's Season 6 episode 4.
1:00.0	It is actually episode 4 this week, I said it was episode 4 last week, but it was actually
1:05.0	episode 3 because apparently I don't really do counting.
1:08.8	So yeah, this is episode 4, I'm Ben as always, we've got a really fun episode this week that
1:14.8	is, I think I thought I'd change it up a little bit because the last couple of weeks
1:18.3	we've done those kind of true crime ones and I kind of didn't mean to do true crimey sort
1:22.7	of murder mystery episodes in a row, so I thought I'd sort of mix it up a little bit
1:27.5	and we got something that's a little bit paranormal, but actually it's a really big topic
1:31.9	and I probably should have broached much sooner.
1:35.2	So yeah, let's get straight into it.
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