We have captured lots of EVPs over the course of our investigations but our video and photographic evidence is almost nothing. Why is it so rare to get images (whether video or photos) that can be presented as evidence?
Dave: This question ties in nicely with one posed earlier pertaining to the availability of ethereal voices. It is true that EVP evidence has been prolific at all our investigations, while video evidence is virtually non-existent. Which way do we lean in explaining this?
1. We suck at getting video evidence.
2. Entities choose not to reveal themselves to strangers.
3. Entities are able to speak ‘way’ easier than they can appear.
4. The voices are not coming from the site being investigated.
Ok, I'm not a big fan of #1, but I believe the remaining three hold water. Do entities not want us to see them? We have volumes of EVP evidence that say, "Hide", "Run", "Shhhhh", as if trying to elude our team. It is the equivalent of hiding in the closet, or under the bed if an intruder is in your home. Perhaps a familiarity with the home’s residents makes them feel comfortable in interacting visually. We are actually testing this theory on our next investigation by using a portion of the investigation time to allow the homeowners’ normal evening activities to be observed without Investigator interaction. Keep your fingers crossed!
Can entities speak easier than they can appear? It is believed that spirits require significant energy to manifest, yet are able to use ambient sound sources to form words. As EVPs are not audible at the time of recording with our Human ears, I assume much less energy is required for verbal contact than visual. Obviously they never remember that entities should be seen and not heard. We have had minute video events, but none conclusive enough to confirm a paranormal source.
Are the voices we record originating elsewhere? This is my personal favorite theory. Believing that EVP evidence could originate from a non-resident, intelligent source "screws-the-pooch" as far as authenticating a localized paranormal event. As our case load settles down, we intend on testing this theory by recording at locations which have no reported paranormal activity. Should we amass enough positive EVP hits at these locations, this theory may have some credibility. We will provide the experiments results on the web site.
Which ever reason keeps the elusive entities in hiding, we will continue looking for the "Holy Grail" of paranormal research.
I wish everyone a Blessed Easter!
Rex: I agree 100 percent with Dave on the reason we don't catch much in the form of photographic or video evidence. I would like to add that there are a few other reasons as to why we don't present what we do catch as evidence. Mainly the anonymity of our clients is very important to us, and if a client does not want us to post pictures or videos that could identify their house we will not. Another reason for not displaying pictures is that they are almost always taken out of context, its easy to mistake a normal picture for a paranormal one if you don't know what happened before and after the picture was taken. For example what may appear to be an unexplained mist may just be somebody's breath on a cold day which you wouldn't be able to tell if there were no people in the shot. Video provides more context allowing viewers to see the events leading up to the paranormal activity, which is why video is much more rare than photographic evidence. In reality though, video should be easier to catch since cameras can be fixed in multiple locations at one time and record for several hours, where still cameras pointing at a random location and taking a picture would provide a smaller amount of probability to capture something. Even a photo taken when somebody experiences something paranormal(cold spot, touch, sound) the picture is taken after the event happened.
From time to time we get photos, evps, videos sent to us for analysis from our site visitors. If you would like us to analyze something you captured we would be more than happy to help. Just send an email to help@pasadenaparanormal.com We also would like to invite you to send us your questions, comments, stories so that we may discuss them on this blog.
Dave: This question ties in nicely with one posed earlier pertaining to the availability of ethereal voices. It is true that EVP evidence has been prolific at all our investigations, while video evidence is virtually non-existent. Which way do we lean in explaining this?
1. We suck at getting video evidence.
2. Entities choose not to reveal themselves to strangers.
3. Entities are able to speak ‘way’ easier than they can appear.
4. The voices are not coming from the site being investigated.
Ok, I'm not a big fan of #1, but I believe the remaining three hold water. Do entities not want us to see them? We have volumes of EVP evidence that say, "Hide", "Run", "Shhhhh", as if trying to elude our team. It is the equivalent of hiding in the closet, or under the bed if an intruder is in your home. Perhaps a familiarity with the home’s residents makes them feel comfortable in interacting visually. We are actually testing this theory on our next investigation by using a portion of the investigation time to allow the homeowners’ normal evening activities to be observed without Investigator interaction. Keep your fingers crossed!
Can entities speak easier than they can appear? It is believed that spirits require significant energy to manifest, yet are able to use ambient sound sources to form words. As EVPs are not audible at the time of recording with our Human ears, I assume much less energy is required for verbal contact than visual. Obviously they never remember that entities should be seen and not heard. We have had minute video events, but none conclusive enough to confirm a paranormal source.
Are the voices we record originating elsewhere? This is my personal favorite theory. Believing that EVP evidence could originate from a non-resident, intelligent source "screws-the-pooch" as far as authenticating a localized paranormal event. As our case load settles down, we intend on testing this theory by recording at locations which have no reported paranormal activity. Should we amass enough positive EVP hits at these locations, this theory may have some credibility. We will provide the experiments results on the web site.
Which ever reason keeps the elusive entities in hiding, we will continue looking for the "Holy Grail" of paranormal research.
I wish everyone a Blessed Easter!
Rex: I agree 100 percent with Dave on the reason we don't catch much in the form of photographic or video evidence. I would like to add that there are a few other reasons as to why we don't present what we do catch as evidence. Mainly the anonymity of our clients is very important to us, and if a client does not want us to post pictures or videos that could identify their house we will not. Another reason for not displaying pictures is that they are almost always taken out of context, its easy to mistake a normal picture for a paranormal one if you don't know what happened before and after the picture was taken. For example what may appear to be an unexplained mist may just be somebody's breath on a cold day which you wouldn't be able to tell if there were no people in the shot. Video provides more context allowing viewers to see the events leading up to the paranormal activity, which is why video is much more rare than photographic evidence. In reality though, video should be easier to catch since cameras can be fixed in multiple locations at one time and record for several hours, where still cameras pointing at a random location and taking a picture would provide a smaller amount of probability to capture something. Even a photo taken when somebody experiences something paranormal(cold spot, touch, sound) the picture is taken after the event happened.
From time to time we get photos, evps, videos sent to us for analysis from our site visitors. If you would like us to analyze something you captured we would be more than happy to help. Just send an email to help@pasadenaparanormal.com We also would like to invite you to send us your questions, comments, stories so that we may discuss them on this blog.
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