In the field of ghost research and parapsychology, electronic voice phenomena (EVP) are sounds found on electronic recordings that are deciphered as ghost voices that have been either unexpectedly recorded or purposefully summoned and recorded.
Parapsychologist Konstantīns Raudive, who advocated the classification during the 1970s, depicted EVP as generally short, normally the length of a word or short sentence.
Paranormal researches believe EVP to be a type of paranormal event regularly found in recordings with static or other types of background noise.
Researchers see EVP as a type of aural pareidolia (deciphering arbitrary sounds as voices in one’s own language) and also as a pseudoscience declared by mainstream culture.
Prosaic clarifications for EVP incorporate apophenia (seeing patterns in irregular data), hardware artifacts, and scams.
