Brad … just HOW does a speaker producing what appears to be feedback that you capture on video and audio "go down as a personal experience" ?

Even if it did not have a wire going off somewhere that your investigators do not bother to track down, it IS evidence, and it's up to you guys to find out if it's evidence of the paranormal or fraud.  Since the sounds were produced by the speaker in any case, you may want to explain how analysing them would tell you if they were paranormally produced or not.

… and that, plus what you consider a one-word EVP that has no relevance to the surroundings, has convinced you that the Birdcage DOES have paranormal activity going on ?

Why do I get the feeling that this group thinks professional wrestling is real ?

Learjet said:

Then there's the silver mine supercharging the city like a giant battery. Cough, choke, gag. Are these guys for real?

I loved that part.  Yes, silver is a great conductor for electricity.  Yet…I'm somewhat at loss at how that explains any paranormal phenomenon.  A clear connection was never established.  I can propose a theory that tumbleweeds draw the ghosts because it establishes an "era cue."   I have just as much evidence that tumbleweeds are the main attraction to ghosts as they have for silver attracting ghosts….mainly none. 

Also, silver is just not laying around in abundance in the rest of the country.  There are not silver mines every couple of miles throughout the US.  If you go with this "supercharged" theory and say it is true (just say it is)…then how do you explain the other 98% of the supposed hauntings going on in other locations without silver?  Do they actually know that if they prove this theory correct…then they are essentially negating almost every other haunting in the country?  I mean, most other locations are not "supercharged."

Now, let's talk about that "shadow man" that they caught on film.  After they went crazy over it (and rightly so because I'm a huge fan of seeing shadows while using flash photography… ), they appeared to be going back to verify the location.  I was actually impressed by this for a second.  And it was an awfully quick second when I began to realize that they were trying to find the location of a photograph taken years ago instead of their shadow man.  A couple of things on this.  First, um…why aren't you verifying the location of the shadow man again?  Second, that old photograph…they said it has never been debunked.  I swear I remember reading something that it had been.  Can anyone verify that?

And please…someone…ANYONE…for the love of God…can we get one of these paranormal teams to use higher end audio equipment to verify the lower end crap recorders that they use?  I'm not talking about during the evaluation either.  I'm talking during the EVP sessions themselves.  Using a $35 recorder tweaked up with "white noise" in the background is one thing.  Verifying it, as it happens, with high end equipment is something else entirely.  I don't want to hear the standard "mumbo-jumbo" about how a ghost can only work its magic on one piece of low end gear.  If an entity is saying something in a different frequency, superior audio equipment should be able to pick it up infinitely better than a "Radio Shack special."  Of course, if the superior audio equipment doesn't pick up anything…well…so much for your "A" grade EVP's, eh?