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Our lecture series on paranormal investigating has ended for the 2019 Halloween season. Thank you to all who attended this year. It was fun to meet all of you and enjoyable to hear your questions and reactions. We'll be back again in 2020. Till then, keep turning a skeptical eye.

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EVP: EVP stands for “Electronic Voice Phenomenon,” usually the imprint of anomalous voices on analog and digital audio recordings, or on the audio of video recordings. Although a majority of EVP are, in fact, voices, the term is also used to describe any sound discovered in the recorded findings that was not audible to investigators or other equipment at the time of the recording. Reputable groups use a standard of classification for EVPs in order to separate the most convincing or compelling ones from those that have a higher probability of ordinary explanation. Persuasive EVPs that seem to be direct communication to the questions, rather than random words or phrases, and which are clearly audible and unambiguous in content tend to be classified as Class A EVPs. The vast majority of such findings, however, falls into the category of Class C for its poor sound quality and high levels of white noise.

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Class C EVP

Why are Class C EVPs the most common, you may ask? Probably because they're the least likely to be paranormal. Some could be paranormal, certainly, but they're usually too obscured to say with any certainty that they're not caused by some other normal acoustic source in the environment, much less interpret what exactly they're saying....

PPI Presents (2016)

Coming to your local public library: Science and The Beyond: The Science and Pseudoscience of Paranormal Investigating. Using their own case files from the past decade, TAPS Family skeptical inquiry group PACIFIC PARANORMAL INVESTIGATIONS shines a flashlight on the inner workings of 21st century paranormal investigating with a multimedia show separating good science from bad, and the inexplicable from the 'xplicable. Topics include: scientific method, critical thinking, "paranormal" tech, research and nonfiction, orbs, history and pioneers, pseudoscience, false positives and "proof", EVP classification, and more. FREE and open to the public. (Not recommended for very young children.) Students welcomed, and extra credit opportunities are encouraged. (Talk to your teacher!)