Where do I start? I will say that I am a skeptic who watches Ghost Hunters and Ghost Hunters International and sometimes Ghost Adventures on television. So, even as a skeptic, I enjoy these shows. I am hoping that there will be something on one of these shows that either proves there are ghosts exist (or spirits) or not.
Dana and I spent the end of the night (February 11th) and into early morning with Andy and Charity of the Atlanta Ghost Hunters at a law office in Marietta. (There were 3 other couples there as well.) We were taking part in a guest investigation with AGH. Why not? It was our valentines gifts to each other. So romantic, right? Well, anyway, here is how the night went…
We arrived at 8:30PM and met Andy and Charity. They greeted us and we got a history of the location as the others were arriving. The location has a pretty long history for an area that was burned down during the civil war… after which we all went into the conference room to “talk to the ghosts.” Well, when somebody wasn’t talking, it was dead silent. You could hear a pin drop. Literally. People asked questions and seemingly got no answer. That is, until we reviewed the “evidence.”
There were noises and voices on the recording that I could not (nor did anybody else) hear as we sat in that room. There is one instance in particular that was found on the official recording that I have on my recording (done with an iPod touch) that is completely unexplained. One of our fellow guest investigators apparently belched to put it bluntly. We all has a small giggle over it, but in the recording we hear “burped.” Nobody in the room said it. But there it was on the recording.
The official recording.
My recording done with the iPod touch.
How do I debunk this? One could say that the recording is doctored (as sometimes I have thought about with the television shows) but how could my recording and the official recording have the same doctoring? Considering that AGH didn’t touch my recording, that is not possible. Could somebody in the room have said it? Of course, but with as silent as that room gets, it seems as though we would have heard it (live).
This is just one example. There were other voices on the recording. We heard “help me” and “killed me” and even “open.” But not “live.” I have to say that my skepticism is shaky now. I would love to be able to explain how these voices got on the recordings. But I can’t.
They told us that this could be done anywhere as long as you can control the environment. Dana won’t let me do our house. But you can do yours. Just use a good digital voice recorder. Maintain the silence in the room you are in and just talk to “the air” and see if something unexplained is on the recording. Could be fun or it could be scary. Enjoy.