Recap

Ghostly Voices

Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath, from the Ghost Investigators Society, returned to the show with a new selection of recorded ghost voices, known as Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP).

Among the EVPs they recorded were a young boy in a mausoleum curiously asking, "Hey, what is that for?" and a little girl who haunts the Egyptian Theater entreating, "Tell me more." Interestingly, about half the audio clips came from McBeath's house. During one recording session you can clearly hear a man's voice order, "Hey, get out!" and another voice suggesting, "This might help." The EVP clips played during Saturday's show can be accessed on this page.

Cook and McBeath captured the ghost voices with a standard microphone on a RCA digital voice recorder. Cook says they have picked up "more voices" since switching from analog to digital recorders. He also believes the "voices are manipulating sounds that are already in the atmosphere" rather than generating their own.

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The Ghost of Nessie

Kevin Carlyon, high priest of the British Coven of White Witches, believes the legendary monster of Loch Ness exists but only as a spirit. To prove his point, Carlyon is planning to hold a nighttime seance in the middle of the lake to raise the ghost of Nessie.

"With excellent technical wizardry I am going to set out to prove that Nessie is a spook, a ghost from a bygone age that only a special few can ever view. I am sure that after this, visitors to Scotland will enjoy more sightings of the creature."

The seance will begin at sunset on July 2, 2004 and be broadcast over the Internet. More at thisisnorthscotland.co.uk.