Electronic Voice Phenomenon (or EVP), the recording of disembodied voices, is the communication of entities through digital voice recorders or other audio recording devices.  They are voices which have a shift in frequency outside of the normal human hearing range (roughly 100mH up to 1000mH).  Sarah Estep is the person given credit for the increased study into this extraordinary phenomenon.  She claims to have over 20,000 recordings of spiritual voices gathered since 1970s beginning on a reel-to-reel recorder.

Many skeptics believe EVPs are the results of interference from CB and two-way radios.  Some also claim they are random signals and sounds to which people give "meaning" by suggestive reasoning. (ie. one person hears something then "suggests" to someone else if they hear the same thing)  RIP counters these ideas with an individual assessment.  If two or more people experience something at an investigation, they relay their stories to someone who wasn't present individually.  After hearing all the stories, the independent person then relays any consistencies to the group.  This assures no one affects another's view of the incident.  When examining evidence of an investigation, reports are compiled individually then compared.

Another phenomenon studied in this area is "white noise" such as is found in the movie with the same name.  We are beginning a study into the effects mild "white noise" may have in the collection of EVPs.  Some scientists believe entities can utilize vibrations through white noise and vocalize.

RIP uses a practice of evaluation which is standard among most paranormal investigation teams.  We use audio editing programs to try to remove background noise and make the whispers clearer.  However, we never put any EVPs on our site which have been altered.  We do not wish to influence your experiences and geniunely welcome your suggestions on any of our evidence.  We use questions during "sit-downs" to try to get interactive comments from entities, which has had some success.  These EVPs are graded in clarity and content as follows:

RIP Studies will continue to study this phenomenon and post our findings on a regular basis.  We look forward to hearing from anyone else who has an interest in this area and the encounters you experience.