_ __| | ___ _ _ ___ _ _ _ __ _____ ___ __ / _` |/ _ \ | | | |/ _ \| | | | '__| / _ \ \ /\ / / '_ \ | (_| | (_) | | |_| | (_) | |_| | | | (_) \ V V /| | | | \__,_|\___/ \__, |\___/ \__,_|_| \___/ \_/\_/ |_| |_| |___/ _ _ _____ ___ __ _ __ ___ ___ ___ _ __ __| (_)_ __ __ _ / _ \ \ / / '_ \ | '__/ _ \/ __/ _ \| '__/ _` | | '_ \ / _` | | __/\ V /| |_) | | | | __/ (_| (_) | | | (_| | | | | | (_| | \___(_)_(_) .__(_) |_| \___|\___\___/|_| \__,_|_|_| |_|\__, | |_| |___/ =- -= /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ ___/ \ / \ /\ /\ / \ / \ / \ / \ /\ ±±± \ / \___/ \_/ \/ \/\ / \/ \___/ \/ \_ _/\_ \/ \/ \ / \ / \/ E.V.P Stands for Electronic Voice Phenomena: strange unexplained sounds which sometimes manifest in the background noise of an audio recording. Sounds that are like voices...voices from the DEATH...spirits, ghosts, otherworldly beings or maybe even ancient demonic creatures. First discovered with the advent of home tape recording in the mid 20th century, it was the Latvian parapsychologist Konstantin Raudive who started to research this phenomena in a more proper fashion. He recorded over 100000 tapes, tested hundreds of people and became obsessed with the voices. All this resulted in the first book about E.V.P called "unhorbares wird horbar" (1968 The unheard becomes heard in german) this book was later translated in English in its more known title "Breakthrough"(1971) Whether this is real or not it makes for an interesting and fascinating hobby. On rainy Sunday afternoons it can be a sinister yet exciting activity to embark on with your offspring. Go to your local neolithic ruins or abandoned church yard for some traumatizing and haunting adventure. A way better past time then watching soccer, which is a waste of time anyways. So how does this work? You just get a tape recorder with a microphone, put in a cassette tape, go to a place where the border between this and the other world is thin...press the record button, ask some questions and record the silence for a few minutes. Then you go back home and start analyzing your recording for the E.V.P voices. Here is a step by step guide: What you need: - Portable (desktop) cassette recorder One that runs on batteries and you can carry around. Like a Sony Cassettecorder or Radioshack Desktop Cassetterecorder (They still sell them for around 40 $), chances are extremely high you will find one at your local thrift store/swapmeet for next to nothing. These almost always have microphones build in so you won't need one, if it doesn't have a build in mic you need to get a microphone too. Of course you can also use a tapedeck but these things aren't very portable since you need to be connected to the electricity mains etc. - Batteries (For the cassette recorder) - A cassette tape (normal type) Some stores still sell new TYPE I Normal cassette tapes, else check your local thrift store they always have boxes full of old cassettetapes. And yes we need cassette tape you can't do EVP on digital recorders or DAT TAPE or MiniDisc...Ghosts don't do digital (yet)even lam3rs know that! Only tape has the interdimensional entropy of the magnetic particles going on which is essential for this endeavor! Also the crappier and older the tape; the better because it will be noisier and the more noise the better chance of receiving E.V.P's, In essence more noise = more bandwidth to receive them. - Headphones - Computer with Audio editing software (Like the free Audacity for PC and MAC or Audiomaster on the Amiga) - A Sinister place to record - A Quiet place to listen Pack some snacks and drinks and off you go to your sinister place to record your E.V.Ps.You can also do it in your house, but be warned if you do get some voices it might freak you out living there. Feel out your sinister location a bit and find a good spot to stand. Press record on the recorder and start asking some questions. A good first thing to say is something along the lines of "Are there any spirits here that wish to communicate?" so we got the vibe going on a bit. Other things you can ask "Who are you" "Where are you" "Give us a sign" you get the picture... you can make it more freaky and eerie by summoning evil dark forces using a spell, like "scire facias caeca magnum malum vires nostras dimensionem" (at your own risk, I am not responsible if you get posesed!) Now just record for a few minutes in silence, make sure you stand perfectly still so you wont record any crackle from your clothing or footsteps etc. You can keep asking questions occasionally so you have some reference points in your recording. Repeat this in a few different places at the location. If you have like 20 to 30 minutes in total you should have enough material to work with. (If you have not attention span 5 minutes will do too) Now go back home take a blunt drink some tea chill out and prepare your mind for some in depth audio analysis. Connect the audio output of your tape recorder to the audio input of your computer. Run your audio editing software and record your tape into the program. Start listening closely to your recording, if you hear any strange artifacts highlight them for closer examination, magnify them, change the volume, Pitch it up or down, filter/Equalize it until the artifacts become clearer and you might actually hear a voice saying something. Send your EVP recordings in MP3 file format to: editor [a.t] shadowwolf.net and we try to include them in the next issue of this e-zine, please also give any extra info such as location, history or anything else you think matters. Summoning of the (Evil) Spirits: If you want to get shit real freaky and scary stuff try to use these ancient spells: Notum fac nos errantes animas inferni (Medieval Alchemists spell) A Aru Ab saga Gigm Xul (Ancient Summerian spell) *** Extremely Dangerous *** written by TROLLIUS MAGNUS BASKET CASE