
Was that really a voice… or just noise? 👻🎙️
You’re sitting in a silent room.
Nobody speaks.
Your recorder keeps running.
Then, when you listen back, you hear something you don’t remember hearing at the time.
Maybe a whisper. A word. Even what sounds like an answer to your question.
So what did you actually capture?
Capturing EVPs is the practical Spooky Haunts field guide to investigating possible Electronic Voice Phenomena — and doing it properly.
Instead of assuming every unexplained sound is paranormal, you’ll learn how to record cleaner audio, run more controlled EVP sessions, identify contamination and review mysterious recordings without accidentally hearing what you expect to hear.
Whether you're preparing for your first ghost hunt or already have hours of mysterious recordings sitting on your hard drive, this guide gives you a repeatable method for investigating them.
🎙️ How to record EVPs properly
Choose your recorder, set recording levels and preserve the detail you'll need later.
🏚️ How to set up an EVP experiment
Control the room, identify possible sound sources and document exactly what happened.
❓ The Ask & Pause Method
A structured question-and-response technique with clean listening gaps and predetermined timings.
🎧 The Two-Recorder Method
Learn why a second recorder can completely change how you interpret a mysterious sound.
📻 Spirit Boxes, White Noise & Apps
Understand what these techniques actually produce — and why radio fragments and generated words need to be treated differently from quiet-room recordings.
🧠 Why your brain can hear words in noise
Discover auditory pareidolia and how expectations, suggested phrases and other investigators can influence what you think you're hearing.
🔊 How to review possible EVPs
Use timestamps, independent listeners and blind listening to investigate a recording before deciding what it might be.
〰️ Waveforms & Spectrograms
Understand what those mysterious shapes on your screen can — and cannot — tell you.
🎚️ How to process EVP audio without destroying the evidence
Learn when noise reduction and enhancement can help and when processing may actually create something misleading.
🧪 PLUS: Run Your Own Blind EVP Listening Experiment
A practical exercise designed to show just how easy — or difficult — recognising speech in noisy recordings can be.
You’ll also get a Session Record and EVP Review Worksheet you can print and take on investigations, helping you document equipment, conditions, timestamps, possible contamination, listener interpretations and your final conclusions.
And that's the point.
There is currently no established, reproducible scientific demonstration that EVP recordings are communication from the dead. Capturing EVPs shows you how to investigate the recording first — and keep “I don't know” as a perfectly valid answer.
Because if you ever capture something you genuinely can't explain…
you want to know you've already ruled out the things you can.
21-page illustrated digital field guide
Instant PDF download
Includes 2 printable investigation worksheets
Download Capturing EVPs and make your next EVP session your most controlled investigation yet.