IN JANUARY, 2007, the Central New York Ghost Hunters (CNYGH), based in Syracuse, New York, were invited to investigate an old hotel in upstate New York. (The owners of the hotel have asked to keep its location confidential.) The investigation proved to be one of the most intensely active the group has ever encountered, and produced an EVP – an electronic voice phenomena recording – that is remarkable not only for its length, but also for its terrifying content.
It may well be the most intense, frightening EVP ever recorded.
On that weekend in January, CNYGH founder Stacey Jones and several members of the group went to the hotel on an overnight stay for what they thought would be a routine investigation. They had no idea what they were in for.
Originally built in the late 1800s, the building was in its colorful history the site of some nefarious activity, a fact that might be key to what is heard in the EVP.
On Friday night, Stacey and her group set up their equipment – audio recorders, video recorders and other electronics – and settled in, hoping to document some evidence for the haunting the owners had claimed. Most investigations are relatively quiet, but this night was filled with paranormal activity, including muffled voices of unknown origin, footsteps from unseen bodies and more. Members of the group I spoke with confirmed that it was the most active haunting they had personally experienced.
The real shocker came the next day. On Saturday afternoon at about 3 p.m., two female CNYGH investigators and a member of the owner’s family (also a female) sat on the staircase of the hotel with a digital voice recorder, intending to capture some EVP. They chose the stairway because they had heard soft conversations and footsteps on the floor above, although no one was up there.
When they later played the recording back, however, what they heard were not soft voices and footsteps, but something totally unexpected and completely terrifying.
THE EVP: WHAT YOU’LL HEAR
Stacey Jones describes what you’ll hear on the recording:
“You can [faintly] hear the three females talking throughout the recording. You will hear a female – the family member – say, ‘Hello, baby,’ and another long conversation. Those are all human voices. But what sounds like a struggle or attack is going on as well.
“The male [voice] you hear was not present at the hotel. You will hear a cuckoo clock (which was not present) a ticking of a hall clock (which was there); you will hear what sounds like the microphone being moved (which was not touched) and then the sound becomes clearer.
“You will hear a creaking door and slamming of the door, which is real. Then you will hear a [unknown] woman say, ‘Get off me,’ and what sounds like the woman being attacked. The struggle continues for awhile, and during the EVP you can hear some of my investigators’ conversations. After interviewing my investigators, they said they went and sat on the stairs of this hotel, because they heard from an above floor, what sounded like footsteps and conversations, not what you hear on this recording. When the noises stop, you hear the investigators participate in a lulled conversation. They stated that they started to talk when the noises stopped. In their conversation, you will hear a male voice say, ‘Help me’ several times.”
Download and listen to the EVP
Caution: the recording is violent and may be too intense for some listeners.
It’s a large file, so the download may take awhile. If you’re having trouble downloading the file, try right-clicking the link above and choose “Save Target As…” in Internet Explorer or “Save Link As…” in Firefox to save the file to your computer’s hard drive, then play it from there.
If you still have trouble, try listening to it here on Youtube.
“The EVP has not been altered in any way, except it was edited for time,” Stacey says. “CNY Ghost Hunters have tried to reduce the noise, amplify and ‘clean’ it up, but found it difficult to make out exactly what was being said. We invite you to download this EVP to see what you can make of it.
“Please let me know what you make of this EVP. I can’t give you any more of the history as we are no longer able to enter the hotel where the EVP was obtained. If you can make out any further detail, please drop Stephen an email (paranormal@about.com) or contact Central New York Ghost Hunters at: Stacey@gotghosts.org“
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Hey Stumblers.
Top tip- when reading out little vignettes to a half-broken tape recorder, you can say anything you like! Anything at all!
Tip 2- that sets the bar a little higher than an implied domestic.
tip 3 evps aren’t real i mean come on god damn
Tony, bullshit EVPs aren’t real. I’ll never forget when me and my friend were messing around, just asking random, mostly goofy questions while sitting in the dark, recording it. She had a camcorder, and I have a brand new tape recorder, and a nice one at that. When I’m getting bored of it, and were about to stop, I just ask, “Are you a boy ghost?” We don’t hear anything and stop, turning the lights on. We watched the camcorder, and after I asked the question, you hear a very, very clear, “NO.” it a voice that sounds like it belongs to a little girl. We go to the tape recorder, and there’s the same voice, the same time in, the same pause between the question and answer, everything the same. I wish I still had the tape recording, but sadly I lost it when my laptop broke and couldn’t be backed up.
That’s too bad! I would have loved to have heard it.
Kati is right EVP’s are real! But this one seems a little to fake for me.. I have heard a lot of EVP’s but none this long and LOUD. They should have put a video of it with them so show proof it isn’t fake.
I am a believer of this, Ghosts exsist! Spirits are still here. I live in a haunted apartment. But i don’t want to do EVP’s cuz you can let bad peoplein that way and i like my place just how it is lol
Kati, that really stinks your laptop couldn’t be backed up. Same thing sort of happened to me. I was walking through the woods with my brand new digital video camcorder when all of a sudden I saw something I never thought I would, it was bigfoot. He was sitting on a stump eating croissants and sipping tea. He didn’t seem to notice me. Then out of nowhere, something that can only be described as ‘alien’ walked up to him and gave him a fist pound. It was like they were best friends. I was so excited that I got this on film that during my rush to get home I realized I hadn’t pressed the ‘record’ button during the whole thing!!! Man oh man what was I thinking!!
Oh yeah! Go Nate i knew it was true.