Learjet said:

The EVP they hear so clearly, and dance around like circus clowns over, doesn't even sound like a voice to me, let alone pick out any words.

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I've made an attempt to take a normal voice and use combinations of noise reductions, notch filters etc to get close to what they call voices, but no joy.  Anyone else try this ?

Best guess I need a " Cylon with marbles in his mouth " effect.

But I was able to create a detailed mental image of Barry getting hit by the Ghost of a Greyhound bus as he dances through the street like a lunatic.

Nosfer said:

I am going to give these folks a grain of a compliment, though. Since the 'expert' could not say what was being said (if anything was being said) it shows at least that GL apparently did NOT try to lead him by saying, "here, can you analyze this EVP we got that says he's John Wilkes Booth"

I noticed a while ago that GH names their EVP files things like  "  Get_Out.mp3 "

GL could very well have done the same thing, but perhaps the analyser had gotten bitten by skeptics sending him files named with those "mental cues".  When he uses his expert opinion to say he hears the same thing, they reveal that it was actually their dishwasher overflowing. 

MauveHarlet said:

Seriously, I have to watch this show with a bit of sketicism. I have a hard time finding the evidence that they put forth as valid. Although, I DO love the concepts that they come up with. They are innovative and doing something different – Rather than, "Ok, let's go lights out and talk to possible entities for an hour."

Agree, and I might even be able to put up with Barry's 12-year old behavior IF it appeared they were actually getting somewhere.

They set up a Tesla coil in Tombstone and declare that they have supercharged the area for paranormal activity and the use of it was a big success -

WELL – then use the damn thing EVERY time and drag Casper out of wherever he's hiding … Duh

OK, I have to admit that in some strange way, I like these guys.  Yeah, they tend to get over-excited about some "evidence".  I too don't think that JWB EVP was even a voice.  But they were so thrilled I would hate to break the news to them that it didn't sound to me like it said "John Wilkes Booth".

Some things I like:

They take their evidence to experts who are not necessarily involved with the paranormal field.

They fall somewhere between the apathy of J & G and the over-the-top Zak and Company.  They seem to have it just right, at least as far as a TV show is concerned.

They're not wimps.

And there is that disclaimer before each show that nothing has been manipulated or manufactured.  OK, maybe it doesn't mean anything, but can GH, PS and some other shows put that up?

What impressed me the most was the episode in which they got one of the team to try and duplicate an EVP.  They then analyzed the human voice alongside the EVP and were able to determine that both existed in far different frequencies, with the EVP being so low as to be impossible for the human ear to pick up.  I found the test and the results impressive.  Whatever that EVP was, it wasn't somebody faking it.  Perhaps more work should be done with studying EVPs to determine more of a complete picture as to their most common frequencies and go on from there.  Might be a start as far as serious research goes.

Really thought I would hate this show, but even when they do kind of far out things, they still don't rub me the wrong way.  At least not yet.