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Told you I'd do some paranormal stuff
Jun. 1st, 2011 11:56 amLast night Paige and I tried some EVP sessions! After somebody in ontd_creepy pointed out to me that the Audacity program could very well be used for such. We just did five-minute sessions; one downstairs, one in my room, and one in her room. There was some interesting stuff, but nothing especially notable, at least not notable enough for me to share. The most interesting was weird noises I got in my room that sounded like my computer was being tapped near the microphone, which I definitely was NOT doing; but movement anywhere on the computer can translate to weird noises recording, so I can't really make a definitive statement on it.
Paige shared a story though! One she had neglected to share with me before. So now I will pass it on to you.
This is when Tybalt was still alive (Tybalt was the cat that died mysteriously in the tree incident). She was home alone on this particular night, since I was at band practice and mom and dad were at one of Derek's hockey games. She's chilling upstairs with Tybalt, on her bunk beds, when she hears a noise from downstairs...the basement door opening and closing. Repeatedly.
So she tells Tybalt to make it stop.
Tybalt jumps off the bed, runs downstairs (or probably more like 'thumps down the stairs'...most uncoordinated cat ever). The door stops opening and closing. Tybalt comes back upstairs.
I don't find this story particularly surprising since it happened during the time there was the most paranormal activity in our house. This was the time when basically whenever I was alone in the house, stuff would happen (radios turning on at top volume, doors opening and closing, etc.) A lot of it seemed to die down when we did the construction on my old room, splitting it into the two bedrooms that now belong to Paige and Derek. It seems like the paranormal activity now only occurs upstairs, in my and Paige's rooms.
Oh, and here's why she shared the story with me; we had just finished doing the EVPs and were sitting downstairs while I listened to them. Paige got my attention suddenly and when I took my headphones off, there were some odd noises coming from right above us - Paige's room. I shrugged and said 'probably your demon cat'...and then Nikka ran out from the other side of the house and up the stairs. Paige and I looked at each other and listened as the noises continued for awhile, then stopped after about three minutes; and then Nikka came back downstairs.
This isn't the first time this has happened, either. Like actually, I'm pretty used to it by now. I remember months ago discussing a particularly troubling incident as it was happening - noises were coming from my, Paige's, AND Derek's rooms. Nikka ran upstairs after the noises started. The whole thing lasted about a half hour that time. I still have no idea what to make of it, especially because I never find anything out of place in my room afterwards - although things could very well move in my closet and I would never notice. Things move in Paige's room regularly (most notably her rocks, which just sort of migrate around the room) but we aren't sure if Nikka is the one doing that or not...
Anyways, the main problems with using Audacity for EVP's was that it was very hard to hear anything not right next to the microphone. Even when I had Paige sit pretty close to me she was much quieter than I was. This makes me afraid that I'm missing sounds because they aren't happening right next to me...and I kind of suspect this is the case because I picked up one or two sounds that were quieter than Paige, almost inaudible. Basically, I need a better microphone that I can hook up to my computer...IDK how expensive they are, though. To google!
BTW, if you would like to try this out for yourself, Audacity is a totally free recording program. You can find it here, which is where I got it, it's totally safe. Of course I've been just messing around with it as well and made some pretty creepy recordings :P I haven't decided yet if any are worth uploading.
ETA: okay I picked out some to share :D this is just me being a dork, it's the first thing I recorded, and I raised the pitch. (Yes, that's me singing over myself...it's also before I realized that that works much better if I mute while I'm recording over it).
This is me trying to be creepy. And then I made it more creepy by raising the pitch again.
If anybody has recommendations on better places to upload sound files, that would be awesome, LOL.
ETA2: Trying another site that allows embedding...?
Ohgod2 by tanzelt
Success! I love this site! Let me know that it's working for you guys, too, and I'll use it for any future EVPs if I actually capture anything I want to share.
Rats by tanzelt Rats2 by tanzelt
Paige shared a story though! One she had neglected to share with me before. So now I will pass it on to you.
This is when Tybalt was still alive (Tybalt was the cat that died mysteriously in the tree incident). She was home alone on this particular night, since I was at band practice and mom and dad were at one of Derek's hockey games. She's chilling upstairs with Tybalt, on her bunk beds, when she hears a noise from downstairs...the basement door opening and closing. Repeatedly.
So she tells Tybalt to make it stop.
Tybalt jumps off the bed, runs downstairs (or probably more like 'thumps down the stairs'...most uncoordinated cat ever). The door stops opening and closing. Tybalt comes back upstairs.
I don't find this story particularly surprising since it happened during the time there was the most paranormal activity in our house. This was the time when basically whenever I was alone in the house, stuff would happen (radios turning on at top volume, doors opening and closing, etc.) A lot of it seemed to die down when we did the construction on my old room, splitting it into the two bedrooms that now belong to Paige and Derek. It seems like the paranormal activity now only occurs upstairs, in my and Paige's rooms.
Oh, and here's why she shared the story with me; we had just finished doing the EVPs and were sitting downstairs while I listened to them. Paige got my attention suddenly and when I took my headphones off, there were some odd noises coming from right above us - Paige's room. I shrugged and said 'probably your demon cat'...and then Nikka ran out from the other side of the house and up the stairs. Paige and I looked at each other and listened as the noises continued for awhile, then stopped after about three minutes; and then Nikka came back downstairs.
This isn't the first time this has happened, either. Like actually, I'm pretty used to it by now. I remember months ago discussing a particularly troubling incident as it was happening - noises were coming from my, Paige's, AND Derek's rooms. Nikka ran upstairs after the noises started. The whole thing lasted about a half hour that time. I still have no idea what to make of it, especially because I never find anything out of place in my room afterwards - although things could very well move in my closet and I would never notice. Things move in Paige's room regularly (most notably her rocks, which just sort of migrate around the room) but we aren't sure if Nikka is the one doing that or not...
Anyways, the main problems with using Audacity for EVP's was that it was very hard to hear anything not right next to the microphone. Even when I had Paige sit pretty close to me she was much quieter than I was. This makes me afraid that I'm missing sounds because they aren't happening right next to me...and I kind of suspect this is the case because I picked up one or two sounds that were quieter than Paige, almost inaudible. Basically, I need a better microphone that I can hook up to my computer...IDK how expensive they are, though. To google!
BTW, if you would like to try this out for yourself, Audacity is a totally free recording program. You can find it here, which is where I got it, it's totally safe. Of course I've been just messing around with it as well and made some pretty creepy recordings :P I haven't decided yet if any are worth uploading.
ETA: okay I picked out some to share :D this is just me being a dork, it's the first thing I recorded, and I raised the pitch. (Yes, that's me singing over myself...it's also before I realized that that works much better if I mute while I'm recording over it).
This is me trying to be creepy. And then I made it more creepy by raising the pitch again.
If anybody has recommendations on better places to upload sound files, that would be awesome, LOL.
ETA2: Trying another site that allows embedding...?
Ohgod2 by tanzelt
Success! I love this site! Let me know that it's working for you guys, too, and I'll use it for any future EVPs if I actually capture anything I want to share.
Rats by tanzelt Rats2 by tanzelt
