Lakeview Mansion EVPs

Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) is the term traditionally used to describe unexpected sounds or voices sometimes found on recording media. EVP initially involved audio tape recorders, but in later years, virtually any recording medium became a vehicle for phenomena. The term Instrumental TransCommunication (ITC) came into being to describe these expanded modes of audio- and video-format communication. Other acronyms used in the literature include Electronic Disturbance Phenomena (EDP) and Trans-Dimensional Communication (TDC).

Interest in EVP apparently began in the 1920s. An interviewer from Scientific American asked Thomas Edison about the possibility of contacting the dead. Edison, a man of no strong religious views, said that nobody knows whether “our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere” but

"...it is possible to construct an apparatus which will be so delicate that if there are personalities in another existence or sphere who wish to get in touch with us in this existence or sphere, this apparatus will at least give them a better opportunity to express themselves than the tilting tables and raps and ouija boards and mediums and the other crude methods now purported to be the only means of communication."

Since then, EVP has become one of the most popular methods of communicating with the Other Side. Almost all ghost investigations involve at least one EVP session. Many have been conducted at Lakeview and below are two of the many that have been collected.

In the first EVP, you will hear a spirit responding to the inquiry of the investigator.

In the second EVP, you will hear a spirit telling the investigators how he feels about them conducting an investigation.