Over the course of history, people have tried to communicate with the dead through such means as sances, oracles, mediums and psychics. Today, however, the growing trend is EVP electronic voice phenomenon.

EVP involves using tape recorders or other audio equipment to capture voices from beyond. Through this means, voices of men, women and children can be heard, as well as other noises that may or may not be distinguishable. Often, it is difficult to actually hear the words that are spoken, but now special amplification and noise-filtering equipment is also available.

There are three classes of EVP. Class A is one where words are easily understood, while Class B usually features voices that are somewhat warped. Class C is the most difficult to understand.

One of the most interesting features of EVP is that voices from beyond may respond directly to the person who is making the recording. For instance, if you ask a specific question, you may get an answer or comment on it.

However, no one really knows where these voices actually come from. Some say they are lingering spirits, while others believe they come from another dimension. Yet others claim that the voices are merely a reflection of a person's own subconscious and that his or her thoughts are recorded. As well, there are skeptics who say EVP are simply random noises, voices already on a tape or voices picked up from radios, cell phones or other sources.

Regardless of what you may think, even Thomas Edison wanted to communicate with the dead in the 1920s and tried to invent a machine would allow him to do so.

"If our personality survives, then it is strictly logical or scientific to assume that it retains memory, intellect, other faculties, and knowledge that we acquire on this Earth. Therefore if we can evolve an instrument so delicate as to be affected by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument, when made available, ought to record something."

Edison never managed to create a machine that could do that, but in the 1930s, Attila von Szalay, an American photographer did. He used a phonograph record cutter to capture spirit voices.

In the 40s, Marcello Bacci of Grosseto, Italy claimed that he had picked up voices on a vacuum tube radio and then in the 50s, two Catholic priests, Father Ernetti and Father Gernelli, inadvertently recorded EVP while taping Gregorian chants on a magnetophone. It seems the wire on the machine kept breaking, so Father Gernelli

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