Electronic voice phenomena, EVP for short, are sections of static noise on electronic media recordings that are believed, by paranormal investigators, to be the voices of ghosts or spirits.

Various paranormal investigators say that EVP could be due to psychic echoes from the past, psychokinesis unconsciously produced by living people, and the thoughts of aliens. According to parapsychologist Konstantin Raudive, who popularized the idea, EVP are typically brief, usually the length of a word or short phrase.

Skeptics of the paranormal attribute the voice-like aspect of the sounds to apophenia (finding of significance or connections between insignificant or unrelated phenomena), auditory pareidolia (interpreting random sounds into voices in their own language which might otherwise sound like random noise to a foreign speaker), artifacts due to low-quality equipment, and simple hoaxes. Likewise some reported EVP can be attributed to radio interference or other well-documented phenomena.

References to EVP have appeared in the reality television shows Paranormal State, Celebrity Paranormal Project, and Ghost Hunters, the fictional television series Supernatural and Medium, and Hollywood films such as White Noise and The Sixth Sense.

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they are really cool to hear especially if they cant be explained

My friend Holly and I went walking around this graveyard here, at like midnight. We were recording, and when we got back home we heard something on the recording. It was the sound of a man's voice, but we couldn't make out what it said. It was strange because we were the only two people there, and the graveyard is big off of the highway away from houses and things. Plus it was distinctively a man's voice. We couldn't explain it, so we think it is a real ghost.

thats a great story, i have never heard one except for on tv