From Our Viewpoint

AA-EVP member Charli Claypool recently posted an email to the AA-EVP Egroup that included a link to the Fargate Institute, which is concerned with remote viewing.  Members of the Egroup were talking about the best time of day for phenomena and Charli was telling us of an interesting article that was posted there concerning psychic ability and sidereal time.

The article described what turned out to be an important discovery about nonphysical phenomena, especially as it relates to Instrumental TransCommunication.

In the study, the author of the article examined the rather large collection of psychic ability experiments he had conducted over the years to see if they pointed to a relationship between sidereal time and the psychic proficiency of his subjects.  There was a direct relationship!  He then asked colleagues to conduct a new set of experiments to confirm his conclusions.  The results, and therefore the phenomena, were verified.

Sidereal time is star time and a sidereal day is approximately 3 minutes, 56 seconds shorter than a solar day.  Thus, Local Sidereal Time (LST) moves backward in solar time about four minutes a day, two hours a month and one day a year.  Anywhere you are on the planet, at the same LST you will see the same stars overhead as anyone anywhere else will at that time.

The essence of the article we are referring to is that scientists have found a direct correlation between the sidereal time of day and success in psychic ability experiments.  The graph shown on this page depicts “Effect Size” on the vertical axis and “Local Sidereal Time” on the horizontal axis.  “Effect Size” is the amount of deviation more or less than the expected normal for chance.  The horizontal line between 0.1 and 0.2 represents the average of the graph curve.  The line at 0.0 represents what would be expected with guessing.  We have added a vertical, dotted line at 13.5 hours and near 19.0 hours

To quote the report, “Evidence has been given to support a relationship between the local sidereal time at which an anomalous cognition experiment occurs and the resulting effect size.  The primary association is an approximately four-fold enhancement in AC effect size at 13.5 h LST.  (Anomalous Cognition (AC)” seems to be a new term for Extra Sensory Perception (ESP)—Editor)  This association was found in one large data set and confirmed in another, each set comprising AC experiments with a range of free response protocols, from different laboratories and investigators.  It is likely that the increase of effect size for AC trials occurring at 13.5 h LST is real, replicable across different laboratories and occurs in the diverse protocols of the ganzfeld and remote viewing experiments.”

The bottom line is that psychic ability is real and the problem proving it in the past has been that researchers have been conducting experiments at different sidereal times of day.  Almost a six-fold difference in performance of a psychic between 13.5 h and 18.9 h LST is substantial.  And remember, 13.5 hours LST changes in solar time each day.

The evidence suggests that there is something near or beyond the edge of the Solar System that is influencing our psychic ability.  Of course, experiments will need to be conducted to see if this influence affects EVP collection in the same way as psychic ability.  But, we have good reason to believe that there is a mediumistic relationship in EVP between the experimenter and the communicating entity.  And of course, mediumship is psychic ability turned toward spirit communications.

Besides explaining why psychic phenomena is so hard to prove, the reason we believe the discovery of this relationship is so important is that it points to an external influence on psychic ability.  It should be just a matter of time before someone figures out what that influence is and what in the human brain it is influencing.  Once that has been accomplished, it should be possible to enhance psychic ability with technology.

We have added a sidereal time calculator on aaevp.com and you can download a good clock for your computer at www.radiosky.com/sidclockdownload.html.

Source, Apparent Association between Effect Size in Free Response Anomalous Cognition Experiments and Local Sidereal Time, by S. James P. Spottiswoode, published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. II, No. 2, 1997.  You can find it at www.fargate.org/links.htm.  Send a SASE for a hard copy of the report.          Tom

Sonia Rinaldi and Telephone ITC

Brazilian researcher Sonia Rinaldi is the coordinator of Associação Nacional de Transcomunicadores (ANT).  Sonia has been helping people by making phone calls to the beyond since March 2001.  The majority have been for parents who have lost their children.  Sonia writes, “With this technology controlled by the Beyond, the call is not from the Beyond.  They enter our terrestrial phone calls.” 

The parents make an appointment with Sonia in advance.  They are instructed to prepare ten questions.  When they call on the appointed day, Sonia has one phone in her hand and leaves an extension phone open for those in the Spirit world to participate.  The telephone is connected into the MIC jack of her computer and all conversations are recorded directly into the computer.  The questions are asked leaving ten seconds between each question and the recorded conversation lasts about twelve to fifteen minutes.  After the session is over, Sonia prepares a final recording of the session resulting in seven to eight minutes of pure dialog between parent and deceased child.  The sound track is copied and sent to the parents who are then able to hear their loved one’s voice and decide if it is their child who is speaking, identifying not only the voice itself, but also details and information which only the parents knew.  Sonia also requests that the parents send back a report detailing their impressions of the recording.

When asked how she informed the Beyond that a certain parent would call on a certain day, and that their child would be needed on the phone line, she responded that she did not know, but explained that, “What seems to happen is the “Beyond” is here all the time.  It seems that they control everything around here.  In different phone calls, the deceased speaker has said that they go on living in the same house they lived in—that is with the parents.  Also they seem to visit my house or live around my house.  This makes me imagine that, in the parallel space of my house, many spirits live, working in the station.  Maybe the station is over my house.  I don’t know.  The fact is that, when a person is put on the agenda, that is all that I do … on that specific day, the expected deceased appears and replies with particularities that only the parents know, and also, in the great majority the voice is recognized.”

Sonia has tried to make phone calls while in other countries and has also tried having people from outside of Brazil call in to do a phone call.  This has not worked.  Sonia wrote, “For me this means that each country or big region has its own leaders on the other side.  Its own stations ... I say that because maybe a reader of the AA-EVP newsletter may wish to make a phone call with me.  It will not function if he or she is not from Brazil.

“Not only that.  The person apparently must be Brazilian, or the deceased must be Brazilian.  On 11 September of last year, when I saw on television that many Americans were dying, I made a contact by phone and asked, “Are you (in the station) receiving many people today?  Are you receiving Americans?”  The reply was, “This is a station of Brazilians.”

Sonia has made 169 well-documented calls, all of them witnessed and under scientifically controlled parameters.  She has sent us the transcript of part of call number 121.

Data on the Case: Yanira is the name of a mother who lost a daughter in a very difficult situation.  The daughter, Andrea, was 27 years old and pregnant.  During her pregnancy, Andrea went to the doctor many times and everything was perfect.  She knew she would have a boy, and had already chosen a name for him: Murilo.

On the day that the boy was to be born, all of the family went to the hospital and happily prepared a party to receive the little boy.  Yanira, her husband and her other daughter Ana, remained in the hospital room while Andrea went into surgery to have Murilo.

They were so happy that they decided to open some champagne to celebrate the arrival of the first grandson.  At this moment, the doctor entered the room to say that Andrea had died from shock of the anesthesia and that her newborn child died after fifteen minutes.

The Phone Call: Yanira requested the opportunity to speak to Andrea, and the call was scheduled for 12 October 2001.  Yanira along with her husband and her live daughter, Ana, all spoke with Andrea and Murilo.  The results, which were listened to later, were very good.  Yanira recognized Andrea’s voice in many replies.  At the end of Yanira’s conversation with her daughter Sonia remembered the child, Murilo, and wondered what had happened to him.  Would he grow up in the Other Side?  Would he return to his previous life?  What would happen to a baby with 15 minutes of life?

While they were still recording, Sonia suggested to Yanira that they put questions straight to Murilo, to see what would happen.  Of course, they had no idea of the results or even if he would be able to talk.

It is important to understand that Yanira wasn’t alone.  With her at their house on the beach, was her husband and Ana, her living daughter.  All of them spoke with Andrea and Murilo.

Below, is the part of the conversation related to Murilo.

Child’s voice: “It is from my heart”

Sonia: “Hi Murilo...”

Child’s voice: “Be in peace”

Sonia: “Are you hearing me, my dear?”

Child’s voice: “I am.  I’m secure”

Sonia: “Do you know your grandmother?”

Child’s voice: “I came, didn’t I?”

At this point Sonia suggested that Yanira start speaking to Murilo, “You may speak to him, Yanira!”  Yanira was listening to the child’s voice and was absolutely surprised.

Yanira: “He replied, Sonia!  Hello?  Murilo?”

Child’s voice: “She is ‘Anira!’  I love her!”

Yanira: “Hey Murilo!  Your voice is just like Felipe’s!”  Felipe is the name of Ana’s little son, who was four years old at the time.  Felipe was crying frequently in those days because of a throat ache.  Because of this, Murilo’s next comment was especially meaningful.

Child’s voice: “I am here, but I don’t cry”

In the next sequence Murilo says something impressive related to the fact that Yanira lives at the sea shore.

Child voice: “I play in the sand!”

Yanira: “Murilo ..., I am your grandmother ..., Yanira!  Speak to your grandfather now!  Give him a kiss!”

This point of the phone call is important because when Yanira’s husband spoke to Andrea, he asked for advice about a problem in the family.  Andrea didn’t reply to that question.  The one to reply was Murilo.  The Child’s voice: “Your two sons are the wrong ones.  I noticed.”

Child’s voice: “I love to walk with you in the sand ...”  Yanira later confirmed that her husband used to walk on the beach every day.

Grandfather: “Hi!”

Child’s voice: “Hi ...”

Child’s voice: “Ida has protected me when Dea died!”  Sonia pointed out that it was interesting that Murilo called his mother “Da,” a nickname for Andrea.

Yanira: “Murilo ... and your mother?”

Child’s voice: “She has died.”

Yanira: “Wow what a nice voice you have!  We love you!”

In this sequence is another proof of his identification.  As children often are, Murilo seemed to be jealous of Felipe.  Felipe was sick those days, with a cold and throat ache.  So, he was crying frequently because he wanted ice cream, but that was forbidden.  Unexpectedly Child’s voice says, “Ice-cream is forbidden!”

At this point in the recording, Yanira gives the phone to her daughter, Ana, so that she could also speak to Murilo.

Yanira: “Murilo, speak to your Aunt Ana!”

Ana: “Hello?  Murilo?  How old are you now?”

Child’s voice: “I am four.”

In the sequence before Ana asks him if he is well, Murilo anticipates the question and confirms, “Yes I am.”

Ana: “Are you fine?  Are you close to your mother?”

Child’s voice: “She died.  Do you know?  I am beautiful!  I swear.”

At this moment Ana’s husband, Wagner, arrives.  Before Ana can inform Murilo that he will next speak to Wagner, Child’s voice: “The uncle doesn’t know me.”

Ana: “You will speak now with Uncle Wagner!”

Wagner: “Hi Murilo ...”

Child’s voice: “I don’t cry!”  Again Murilo wants to show that he was superior to his cousin Felipe.

Wagner: “Do you know that you have a cousin named Felipe?”

Child’s voice: “I say to him this way: I will teach you how to walk ...”

Yanira: “Murilo ...”

Child’s voice: “You embraced me!”

Yanira: “Good bye Murilo!  God bless you ...”

Child’s voice: “Bless you!”

Yanira: “It was wonderful to talk to you!”

Child’s voice: “Be in peace!”

Sonia included two voice examples so that readers can hear how clear the boy’s voice was.  This article and the two examples are on the AA-EVP website.  ♦

You can find Sonia Rinaldi’s excellent ANT web site at www.geocities.com/anti-tci - including an English section.

Sonia does not charge for her work.  All that she does is exclusively to help people.  She is also working with scientists who are presently beginning an in-depth investigation of paranormal voices, based on her phone call samples.  The Noetics Institute has agreed to support Sonia’s future research, as well.

Tina Laurent and the Scream Team

A show in the UK called the Scream Team features six young people who are filmed 24 hours a day traveling around Britain.  This is a reality show with a paranormal twist and Tina Laurent has filmed show number seven of the series, working with EVP.

Tina recorded over 100 minutes of EVP during the filming and then stayed up all night listening to it.  She wrote, “I was only into the first few minutes when I realized that we had a winner.  The EVP utterances were just about the best and loudest that I have ever captured.”

One of the first utterances was that of an animal.  One of the six kids, Amy, was bending down stroking a phantom cat.  Tina asked her if she had a cat and she replied, “Yes”.  On the recording between ‘Cat’ and ‘Yes’ a very loud “Purr” is heard.  The purr was recorded two more times within just a few minutes.

A young medium, Derek Ogilvie, was also on the program and Tina felt a connection with him.  “I felt things that he was seeing,” Tina said, “and what is much more important, my EVP voices corroborated what he was saying at the time he was saying it.”  At one point Derek was describing a man that he was seeing in the corner who was telling them all to “Go Away.”  On Tina’s recording a man’s voice says, “Go Away” moments later.  This happen several times and Derek was thrilled at his first experience with EVP.

Tina wrote that the producer, the crew and the Famous Six had no trouble hearing the EVP from the very beginning.  There will be a trailer for the program on the Sky Channel (commonly known as “Living”) in the UK on September 13 with the series starting the following Tuesday.  The section with Tina and her EVP recording will be seen around the beginning of November.

A Visit with Anabela Cardoso
by Mark Macy

“ITC is much more than just a way to make contact with Beyond,” says Anabela Cardoso, Portuguese experimenter and editor of the ITC Journal.  “It is a tool for understanding life, and it is a philosophical and social movement.”

Ms. Cardoso mentions that more than a thousand people in Brazil and France—and tens of thousands of people around the world—are trying to contact their departed loved ones through tape recorders.

Like most ITC researchers, Anabela Cardoso supports her research with a full-time career.  Despite her prominence in the world ITC community, ITC research for her is a sideline or avocation.  For nearly a quarter century she has been an official diplomat for the nation of Portugal, but she doesn't lead a typical life of an ambassador—a life often subject to scrutiny by peers and the press.  To put it simply, Anabela is not afraid to make waves.

She fights against animal cruelty because it's the right thing to do, for example.  And she explores ITC research to find a higher truth.  These things don't always rest well with her colleagues in the diplomatic community.

…  Anabela, who earned a Ph.D. in Germanic Philology at a time when few Portuguese girls were pursuing higher education … became Portugal's first female consular in 1979 and was assigned to Rhode Island.  She was also the first woman in the world to hold a diplomatic post outside her own country.  Today Anabela Cardoso is Portugal's consul general in the Rhone-Alps region in France.  …

Her home base is her family farm near Lisbon, Portugal.  She has made it an animal shelter, “Abrigo,” which provides care for many dozens of homeless cats and dogs at any given time.  Abrigo has developed into one of the best animal shelters in Europe, as rated by the World Society for the Protection of Animals.

My wife Regina and I visited Anabela at her second home in Lyon, .  She met us at the train station and gave us a quick tour of the city before driving us to her home for dinner.  (When we arrived) … Her five permanent housemates (abandoned dogs whom she had adopted over the years) gathered around us, tails wagging.  Any friend of Anabela's was a friend of theirs.

We washed up and got settled in the dining room, and then I noticed a powerful sound coming from upstairs.  It was like the roar of the ocean, but more constant.  Anabela explained that her ITC lab contained six radios that were turned on much of the time.  She kept them tuned between stations with the volume up.  That roar had become a normal part of home life for Anabela;  …  She said she had begun experimenting in the fall of 1997, and in a two-year period she had received thousands of voices through the radio sounds—voices from her invisible friends at Timestream.

Timestream is a group of thousands of people in spirit (departed colleagues and loved ones, ethereal beings, and others) whose efforts are devoted to opening up positive communication channels between their world and ours.

“Timestream consists of many working groups,” she said.  “Even though they have amazing technologies and abilities—like modulating our radio sounds into voices—they have told us that ITC contacts are extremely challenging for them.”

Conducting ITC experiments from our side should include patience, as well as an ability to accept that which we can't understand.  “That doesn't mean blind faith,” she emphasized, “just an open mind and spirit.”

I mentioned that most successful experimenters seemed to possess some psychic abilities, but she disagreed.  She said psychic abilities aren't necessary—maybe not even helpful—for ITC contacts.  After some discussion we reached a compromise.  We agreed that there is a sort of “focused intuition” involved in ITC.  Experimenters have to learn to clear their minds and focus on their spirit friends with the same loving rapport that we might share with a good friend on Earth.  That seems to be a key to opening the ITC channels and allowing information to flow more freely from their world to ours through our equipment.  The term we came up with was “focused intuition.”

Anabela said it's especially important to release the spooky notion of ghosts and lost souls when conducting ITC experiments.  “The fear of death is still humanity's main obsession, and we have to get over that,” she said.  “I think it's safe to say that the first feelings that overtake a happy and successful transcommunicator are overwhelming joy and gratitude.  It's really an honor to be contacted by Timestream,” she said.  “They tell us often that life is unending and has a purpose that we don't fully realize while alive on Earth.”

After dinner we climbed the stairs to Anabela's voice lab, where we had to speak rather loudly to hear each other.  The radios were in one room, and we sat in the adjoining room with a tape recorder and microphone.

Anabela shouted into the microphone, “Hello Rio do Tempo (Timestream)!  Rio do Tempo, can you hear me?”  Then she introduced Regina and me to her spirit friends.

We heard fluctuations in the radio sounds that might have been in response to her greetings, and in the course of about 45 minutes we heard a few very faint voices trying to break through the loud radio sounds.

Afterwards we were all a little disappointed, because we had all experienced quality voices coming through radios in the past—Anabela had received many clear voices here through the radios over the years, and Regina and I had received many in our Colorado lab—and I suppose we were all hoping for the best that night.  But as our spirit friends have told us, there are factors involved in ITC contacts that we are not aware of, and if there are no contacts during any particular session, it's really no big deal.

The next day Anabela played some of her more meaningful radio contacts, which she had uploaded and catalogued on her computer.  Most of them were in Portuguese, and are translated to English here.

“Christmas, a kiss for Nina!”  Nina is the oldest of Anabela's dogs living in the Lyon home.  She is like the matriarch of the family, and was present in the room when the voice came through.

“Hello Coqui!  Hello to everyone there!”  Coqui was another of the dogs in the Lyon household.  Ms. Cardoso was in the kitchen at the time of that contact, talking to all the dogs and preparing their meal.  The tape recorder upstairs was set to automatic recording, so that it would come on whenever voices came through the radio sounds.

 “Cheers!  Cheers!  This is Timestream!”  Our spirit friends are often elated when they are able to break through.

“I am Joao Cardoso… at Timestream.”  That was Anabela's departed father—Joao Cardoso.

“It is I, Luis!  I am definitely Luis!” said Anabela's brother, Luis.

“Bela, Bela, you already answered.  The answer came across perfectly here on our side.”  Timestream often addresses Anabela in a loving way, “Bela” meaning “My beauty,” which is also her pet name that her family members always used and still use. In this case she had heard a question and had tried to answer it more than once.

“I feel another color.  I feel my infinite power, the unconscious of God covers all.  Always think of our world.  Those of you who think about our world reduce the distance.”  Many contacts from Timestream contain messages wrapped up in a certain elation and inspiration, which seem to be a predominant mood in that part of the spirit worlds.  This message said there is no better way of bringing the worlds closer together and building an ITC contact bridge than to be aware of our spirit friends.

That is the most important message you get when you spend time with Anabela Cardoso: Think of our spirit friends often, throughout the day, with gratitude and joy, and the miracles of ITC will become an ever greater part of your life.    ♦

For information on the ITC Journal write to Anabela Cardoso at Calle Carral, 23 A Bajo, 36202 - Vigo, Pontevedra, Espana or visit http://eureka.ya.com/cadernostci/journal.htm

Mark Macy is a longtime researcher and promoter of ITC.  You can learn more about his and other’s work in ITC at http://worlditc.org/   Mark is also the author of Miracles in the Storm.  You can find out more about this book at www.paraview.com/macy/

Message of the Beyond on Computer
Written and translated to English by Jacques Blanc-Garin

We, in France, have discovered some strange printing from computers.  These are not very important in quantity of messages, but very curious in their demonstration.

The first example concerns interference with printing a document that Marie Huvet, President of the Society of Psychic studies in Nancy, France, experienced.

Marie was finalizing a document for an upcoming conference.  The document was on the dangerous behavior of youngsters and on the fatal consequences that frequently resulted. When she printed the document, the first pages were reproduced correctly, but in a paragraph of the last page, some lines had been replaced by different words, printed in a different font, and without punctuations or capitals.  Still, the words did relate to the subject of the conference.  The new text read, “and say with me, all together we will have more force.  Thank you for what you make, say that life is important and that it is necessary to take care of life that it has a value to achieve what we have to achieve in a physical body”

The following example seems to relate to our friend, Jean-Marie Gronnier, deceased 3/01.  The first incident took place on 6/17/01 at his wife, Jocelyne’s, home.  One of her daughters, Christine, was writing a report on the computer that was previously used by Jean-Marie. As she reached to remove a piece of paper from the printer, the printer began printing many hearts and explanation points on the paper. Irritated, Christine stopped the printer, put the document file on a disk, and trying again, successfully printed the document. She left the paper, with the strange characters, on the kitchen table.

The next morning Jocelyne went into the kitchen and froze.  There, on the kitchen table, were the computer printout, a pencil and the following message written on the printout: “I love you” (see picture, above). There had not been a pencil on the table the previous day, and Jocelyne had been alone since her daughter had left!  June 17th was Jean-Marie's birthday!

The next example occurred two days later at the home of another friend of ours, Patricia Darré. Without warning, her printer began printing a single line of characters per page for five pages.  Most of the characters were like those discovered by Jocelyne’s daughter.  (See example from the Gronnier family below.)  But even more strange is that Patricia discovered that one of the pages included the same set of characters printed on both the front and the back of the page. It seems we can say that there is a strong presumption of the paranormal side to the phenomenon. ♦

From the Infinitude publication, Le Messager No. 39.  Find more information about Jacques and the French ITC group, Infinitude at www.chez.com/infinitude/Garde/EN_Garde.htm.

Apports Verified

In our last newsletter, we reported receiving two “Medium Stick” apports from the Imperator Group of entities while attending the International Spiritualist Federation Congress, at which we did a presentation.  One materialized under a chair that Lisa was sitting in and the other came the next day in her shoe.  In late August we received another letter from the Imperator Group.  John King is the scribe for this group of entities and is able to write letters without visible support (Independent Writing).  The entities put what they have written into SAS envelopes and then apport them into the US mail.  All of this is done in a locked glass box in the basement of Dr. Tom Richards’ house.  Dr. Richards directs the SORRAT psychokinesis experiments.

To see an example of this Independent writing go to http://aaevp.com/examples/examples_other_techniques.htm .  Images of the four-page letter are too large to include in the newsletter.

Friends Tom and Alisa –

We are glad you enjoyed getting the medium sticks – although the one does not really qualify for an entry in the latest volume of Whose Shoe.  …

We were commenting that there is a danger involved in too much love of technology.  Now, there is nothing ‘bad’ about tapes, radios, TVs, and computers, so long as Marshall McLuhan’s dictum that ‘the medium is the message’ is correctly understood.  But some people get so wrapped up in the mechanics involved that they do not concentrate on the full meaning of what is being transmitted from our side of the change correctly called death to your side—both of which are different facets of one All, one far vaster side.

After all, wisdom is what we, and you, seek.  We can learn from you, and you sometimes learn from us.  The transmissions, audio and video taped, are useful conviction artifacts, much as the medium sticks are, but a fragmentary vocal or visual ‘bite’ is not profound wisdom, at enough length to say anything very complicated.  Just now, these are transition tools, and longer, more meaningful, data will come through, but a good voice medium has a far more subtle, complex, organic device inside his or her cranium.  This is what we mean when we warn you against technophilia, the love of the technology in and for itself.  The Piscator may love fishing, but spend so much effort with different rods, reels and very elaborate flies, that he or she never eats a fish!

Still, we believe that your fine newsletter will help fish for the real prize, the minds that can willingly suspend the anchor of disbelief!

Shanti –

Explicator/Mentor/Rector/J.K. (J.K. is John King)  ♦

Comment: Lisa’s research has shown that the Imperator Group has worked with many mediums over the years, such as Leonore Piper and Stainton Moses.

Face on Wall Appears in ITC Experiment

The Reverend Catherine Stewart of the Spiritualist Desert Church in Las Vegas, NV has brought an interesting form of ITC to our attention.  The congregation had painted a wall just after moving into a new church location.  Months later, they noticed a woman’s face in the texture of the paint.  The picture below, on the left, is a slightly enhanced photograph of the face.  It is interesting that we found other, less detailed features in the paint as well.  The painted wall was reminiscent of the Video ITC frames we see, in that it had many ITC features.

We do not usually think of faces in paint as a form of ITC, but the phenomenon does follow the same energetic characteristics as Video ITC.

The church recently gave up its lease on the site and had to abandon the face on the wall.  Before doing so, the congregation conducted a mediation and asked the lady in the picture if she would move with congregation members and also appear to other people.  The last church service in that space was May 26.  On the evening of May 27, in Reno, Nevada, our development circle met and we did a class on EVP and ITC.  At the end of the meeting, the group conducted a Video ITC experiment together, first meditating and then asking for those on the other side to bring their images through the video loop.

Several features came through in the experiment but a feature in the last video frame held a real surprise.  The minute we saw it, we recognized its resemblance to the lady on the wall.  We were unaware that the congregation had asked the lady to appear to others.  As you can see in the two pictures shown here, the picture of the face on the wall (right), and the Video ITC picture (left) are not exactly alike, but they do share many characteristics.

At the left are two other faces collected in that experiment.  You may be able to see that the man (left) is wearing what looks like 17^th Century attire.  We believe we see a “ruff” around his neck.  It is common for us to find ITC features of people in period attire.  The feature to the right is of a young woman.  She is looking toward the lower left of the frame.

Phantom Phone Call

Susan Cole wrote that her friend Rick had died while she was away from home and unreachable.  She realized later, that from the minute that he died, she had begun experiencing poltergeist activity.  In retrospect, she came to feel that Rick had been trying to reach her.

She was packing for the trip to his funeral when the phone rang.  She said “Hello” and a voice said, “Good Morning, how are you?”  She wrote that, “The voice sounded weird, like it had a lot of reverb in it, hollow sounding like in a tunnel.  ‘Fine, who's this?’  I said.  ‘This is Rick, who's this?’ the man said.  ‘This is Susan,’ I answered.  At this point, my mind was searching for who I knew named Rick.  I didn't yet even imagine it was my deceased friend.

“‘Hi Susan, how are you?’ he said, sounding very happy, lively and friendly.  At this point I was recognizing his voice, but I was very startled and thinking this was a cruel joke or strange coincidence.  ‘What number were you dialing?’  He said, ‘5032 or 33’ (5033 is my correct number).  I replied, ‘I think you have the wrong number.’  I knew no other Rick, and Rick was dead.  I was very upset at this prank, or whatever coincidence it might be.  He then made strange gargling sounds and suddenly there was a dial tone.  I dialed the 5032 number, to see if a Susan was there but it wasn't a working number.

“I then called a friend.  The first thing that she asked me was if he had sounded hollow, like an echo.  Boy did that startle me!  She told me that her Grandmother had called after her death and that was how she sounded.

“Looking back, I realized that when I got upset during the call, my emotions broke the connection.  I realized no one would have pulled such a prank and that no one in his town knew me well enough to have my unlisted number.  Even if it was a prank, it wouldn't explain the strange gargling sounds and the instant dial tone upon disconnect.  The AA-EVP has definitely (easy for me to say today) helped me so that I feel I will handle it better in the future if it happens again."

News About Members

·   In the last “From our Viewpoint” we mentioned a metallic click preceding manifestations heard in Point Lookout, a converted lighthouse in Maryland.  Sarah Estep has been there six or more times, usually with a TV production team like Sightings.  Sarah received many outstanding voices while at Point Lookout.  The grounds were used by the North as their prisoner of war camp and many soldiers died there.  One of the best voices that Sarah ever received was “I was seeing the war!” recorded in the basement of the lighthouse.

·   Martti Walden wrote to us that ParaDigma 2003 - Unknown Dimensions of Life: The 3rd Finnish Conference for Scientific Research on the Paranormal (http://www.paranet.fi/english.html [related site]), will be held next April in the coastal city of Turku, Finland.  This interdisciplinary, two-day happening is organized by Finnish Network for Scientific Research on the Paranormal—ParaNet Finland.  The second day of meetings will focus on spirit.  The idea of the event is linked to the questions of other intelligent life in the universe/multiverse and life after death.

We are told that Anabela Cardoso will speak at the conference.  The title of her presentation is, “ITC voices: Contact with another Reality?”

·   Georg Lindström has been working with Spirit for almost thirty years.  He wrote a book on physical mediumship, as there were no Finnish language books on the subject in Finland.  His second book, My Grandmother Anna will be out soon.  Georg is also working with Irma Weisen on an EVP/ITC book.  Irma was a founding member of the International Network for ITC.

·   Paranormal Investigator, Al Rauber, the founder of The Original Haunted Cape May Tour (www.hauntednewjuersey.com) recently attended a Paranormal Investigators Conference in Concord, CA, hosted by Loyd Auerbach.  He played some voices from his investigation and wrote that he “blew some people away.”  Many things were discussed at the conference such as terminology, techniques, equipment, education and funding.  Kerry Gainor talked about his most important investigation, The Entity Case, and Al spoke about the famous Piscataway Haunting and the Heartland Ghost.  Al wrote that the famous parapsychologist, Charles Tart, was supposed to join the group the last night for dinner but that he (Al) had already left.

·   Charlotte Claypool and her web site “Coffee Pot Ghost” at (www.coffeepotghost.com) made it on to both the USA Today and Fortean Times web sites.  Fortean Times wrote, “The haunted coffee pot of Chesapeake Bay.  It’s for real!  Hear the miracle for yourself, plus loads of good info on Electronic Voice Phenomena.”

·   Erland Babcock has recorded his many years of ITC experiments in 26 journals.  He has been working at transcribing them into a readable book.  He is now on Journal No. 4 and already has 123 written pages with 32 photographs and 124 illustrations.  He is also working on experiments using a laser and writes that he has just recorded his first clear EVP with the system.

·   The book Friendly Shadows, in which the author, Keli Adams, details communication from her deceased mother and her other experiences as a spirit communicator, is now available.  You can receive a personalized copy by sending $20 to Keli at PO Box 364 Marienville, PA 16239.

·   Geoffrey Tilga mentioned a splitter that is available at Radio Shack (radioshack.com or 800-843-7422) for $14 that allows three people to listen to one recorder.

·   Tom Wingert is using the opportunity offered by college writing assignments to get the word out about EVP.  We have posted his latest essay at aaevp.com.

Tapers Report

·   You may recall that Martha Copeland has recorded her daughter’s voice, Catherine, on her computer after she died in an automobile accident on Dec. 23, 2001.  Martha recently took Catherine’s cell phone to the phone company so that she could get the voicemail password and check the phone for any voicemail that may have been on it and not retrieved.  She wrote, “I was placed alone in a small room with the phone to contact the customer service department.  While on hold her phone rang (3:15 p.m.) and then went into voicemail right away.  I had to wait four hours after my call to customer service to enter her voicemail.  The only message was the call that I received while in that little room.  It was a female voice saying, ‘I know Cathy.’  I tried to return the phone call but it was not a working number.”

·   Susan Bove’ wrote that she had lost her Aunt Margie after years of illness.  Just three months later her Uncle Tony, who her Aunt had been married to for 57 years, was dying of cancer.  Susan’s cousin was desperate for confirmation that her grandmother was nearby and asked Susan’s sister to place a recorder in his room to see if any voices could be captured.  The day that he died they recorded for 45 minutes and captured six spirit voices.  Susan wrote, “While I listened to the recording for voices, I immediately started crying when I heard the voice of my Aunt Margie!  It was so clearly her, as she sounded toward the end of her own life.”  The recording has been passed around their large family and everyone is astonished that it is her voice.  The recorder was placed on her Uncle’s pillow and one EVP voice can be heard saying, “I love you.”

·   Karen Camus was taping at a haunted mortuary and picked up a deep male voice that said, “poor, I couldn’t bury their son.”

·   Jutta Liebman of the VTF has a wonderful tape of voices that she has recorded.  The EVP voices are mostly in German but Jutta gives the English translation.  Jutta uses mainly Polish, Russian and Italian programs as background noise from a shortwave radio.  The EVP voices come through in German but there are bits and pieces of English.  She has received many contacts that she feels are from extraterrestrials.  Jutta asked why space people come to earth and recorded, “We are the invited.”

·   David Sircom wrote that he first recorded for EVP in August 2001 at 9:30AM with no discernable response.  At 11:30AM, he again recorded starting by stating his name and asking, “Is there any friendly entity that wishes to speak?”  “In playback I expected nothing,” he wrote, “but clear as a bell I heard a voice say, ‘Did anybody answer?’  Startled, I threw down the earphones and backed toward the other end of the room with all the hairs on the back of my neck standing up.  After the initial shock, I tried again at 5:15PM with my greeting and got a male voice saying, ‘No time for this.’”

·   In an Email titled “Contact!,” Steven Beresford wrote to the group about an experiment in which he felt that he had made decisive contact with his departed wife, Carmelita.  To avoid the possibility of cell phone and other RF artifacts, Steven had put his Panasonic RR-DR60 inside a closed metal box.  Carmelita’s wedding band was placed on top of the recorder to serve as a focal point for her consciousness in case she needed it.  Steven wrote that all of the voices that he had attached to the Email sounded like Carmelita and that “most of the EVP I’m posting relates directly to my departed wife.  For example, regarding the ‘groovy laptop,’ she always wanted a laptop when she was alive, it was near the top of her wish list.  In addition, at the end of Session 1, there was the EVP, ‘Are you finished.’  This seems to be conclusive evidence that Carmelita really contacted me.  Many thanks to all you kind folks in AA-EVP who have helped me achieve this goal.”

·   Mike Sullivan was recording, and at the same time, telling his daughter that the manufacture of the DR60 may have unknowingly provided an opening to communication with another plane of existence when he recorded “It’s the gateway to nothing.”  Mike questioned, “Was he responding to my conversation with my daughter?  And if so, how could this be the gateway to nothing.  He doesn’t sound very friendly so maybe he’s just mean spirited (pun intended).”

Group EVP Experiment

We have mentioned the Panasonic RR DR60 digital note taker in past newsletters.  It seems that these were discontinued because people complained about unexpected voices in the recordings.  A number of the people in the AA-EVP Egroup have purchased this recorder.

Perhaps for the first time, several AA-EVP members have the same kind of EVP device, so Danny Williford kindly volunteered to design and lead a group EVP experiment to test the DR60.  The experiments were conducted one day a week for four weeks.  DR60 owners used the same questions each week and then reported their results to Danny, along with how they may have enhanced the EVP.  Danny was also attempting to see if solar, geomagnetic and phase of the moon have an influence on EVP collection.

Our thanks to Danny for taking on this task.  We look forward to giving everyone a report on this experiment in the next newsletter.