Theories on White Noise
While it is impossible to prove that White Noise is due to natural phenomena, we at Paranormal Ulster maintain that it is probably due to such things as interference from a nearby CB operator or cross modulation. Some of the "voices" are most likely people creating meaning out of random noise, a kind of auditory pareidolia or apophenia. And now that the phenomenon has a number of devoted followers from within the scientific paranormal community ( thanks in part to the movie "White Noise" ) some hoaxers have probably entered the fray. Paranormal Ulster have now purchased and are testing a Frank's Box which is a piece of equipment that scans both FM and AM Frequencies, it is believed that spirit link in with these frequencies and minipulate the sounds with voice communication !!
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Psychologist Jim Alcock explains why many people believe in EVP / White Noise.
Perception is a very complex process, and when our brains try to find patterns, they are guided in part by what we expect to hear. If you are trying to hear your friend while conversing in a noisy room, your brain automatically takes snippets of sound and compares them against possible corresponding words, and guided by context, we can often “hear” more clearly than the sound patterns reaching our ears could account for. Indeed, it is relatively easy to demonstrate in a psychology laboratory that people can readily come to hear “clearly” even very muffled voices, so long as they have a printed version in front of them that tells them what words are being spoken. The brain puts together the visual cue and the auditory input, and we actually “hear” what we are informed is being said, even though without that information, we could discern nothing. Going one step further, and we can demonstrate that people can clearly “hear” voices and words not just in the context of muddled voices, but in a pattern of white noise, a pattern in which there are no voices or words at all.
"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest ". "Paul Simon, the Boxer"
