For the purposes of unbiased review, ECRIP provides only a minimal amount of contextual information for all of our publicly-shared data. Additional information is available for each clip as a click-through, but we strongly recommend reviewing the data several times prior to clicking through for a description of the anomaly.
All data is presented in its raw, as-recorded format, and may therefore be difficult to identify, discern and/or categorize depending on your specific listening/viewing environment and capabilities (including quality of playback and listening devices).
Private Residence in Maryland
We collected the following clips 1 through 3 at a private residence in which the owners had been experiencing unexplained phenomena that followed a distinct pattern of human-like behavior.
Clip 1: The clip was recorded during an EVP session with Spencer and Chris.
Audio accounted for: Chris trips over a toy at the beginning of the clip. Spencer notes for review reference, “Now Chris is walking back.” After a brief pause, Chris laughs.
All other audio contained in this file is anomalous.
Clip 2: Clips 2 and 3 were recorded and identifiable on two separate recorders during the same EVP recording session.
In Clip 2, Chris can be heard asking a prompting question, and several seconds later, he begins playing with a toy nearby (i.e., sometimes referred to as "triggering activity," this is done in an attempt to elicit possible sentient reaction or interaction with any entities that may be present). Any additional audio contained in this file is anomalous.
Private Residence in Washington, DC
We collected the following clips 1 through 3 (two audio and one audio-on-video) at a private residence in which the owners had been experiencing various kinds of unexplained phenomena that followed a distinct patterns of human-like behavior over the course of several years.
Clips 1 and 2: All ECRIP investigations begin with baseline EMF readings of all rooms in the investigation area. Prior to collecting baseline readings, stationary audio recorders are set up and activated in strategic locations (you never know when and where you might collect data!). In the following two clips, Kerri and Dawn are discussing an odd EMF spike registering in the baseline data. These two clips take place during that discussion. Because the clips cover a single conversation, you will hear overlapping dialogue between the end of Clip 1 and the beginning of Clip 2. The EMF spikes were noted in team records during baseline measurements, prior to audio review.
Audio accounted for in Clip 1:
“There’s something over in this area.” - Kerri
“It’s almost like there’s wiring under the floor here…” - Kerri
”Well, we have our cables on the floor…” - Dawn
”…Causing it to spike… Yeah, but our cables shouldn’t be doing it.” - Kerri
Audio accounted for in Clip 2: ”[…] it to spike… Yeah, but our cables shouldn’t be doing it.” - Kerri
”Well, it’s very possible that there’s wiring under the floor.” - Dawn
”Huh?” - Kerri
”I mean it’s possible that there’s wiring under the floor.” - Dawn
”Yeah, I’m gonna try and move it… Now see I wasn’t getting it there before, now I am.” - Kerri
(Simultaneous) ”See, this is the…” - Dawn / “Oh, this is now…” - Kerri
Clip 3: This video clip was recording an EVP session. Personnel present are investigators Kerri (on screen), Dawn, and homeowner (both offscreen). No ECRIP personnel or homeowners are located on any floor above the investigators at the time of recording, nor was anyone present on the floor immediately below. All dialogue audio is accounted for (including laughter). The remaining audio present in this clip is anomalous, and was heard in real time by the personnel present (their reactions are included in the recording).
Reactionary audio accounted for in Clip 3:
”Was that somebody upstairs?” - Kerri
”Mmm-hmm.” - Homeowner
”Yeah?” - Kerri
”No.” - Homeowner
”No?” - Kerri
Claremont Town Hall
We did a public seminar and investigation of the Claremont Town Hall in Claremont, Virginia. Afterwards, ECRIP performed a staff-only investigation of the building.
Clip 1: This audio clip was recorded at the tail end of the public investigation portion of the seminar. The seminar participants involved, led by an ECRIP staff member (Sandy), had moved from the basement to the auditorium, where this clip was recorded on an ECRIP team member's digital audio recorder. All human dialogue audio was accounted for, as well as footsteps and movement by seminar participants. All other audio contained in this clip is anomalous.
Clip 2: After the public seminar, ECRIP conducted a staff-only investigation of Claremont Town Hall. Investigators left a digital audio recorder in a girl's bathroom stall in the basement of the building to record continuous, unaccompanied data. Investigator conversation in the distant background was accounted for; however, there were no individuals in the near vicinity of the stationary audio recorder when this clip was recorded.
Clip 3: This clip was recorded during an EVP session conducted by ECRIP staff in an upstairs classroom after the public investigation. ECRIP Investigator Sandy can be heard prompting specific behaviors (interacting with a stationary tri-field meter; attempting to make specific structural sounds), which is standard procedure for ECRIP EVP/audio sessions. All other audio contained in this file is anomalous. The investigators present report they did not hear it at the time. In data review, ECRIP staff had varied interpretations of what may be present in this clip; listen carefully!
Clip 4: This clip was recorded on ECRIP staff’s digital camcorder as ECRIP team members settled in an upstairs classroom to conduct an EVP session (after the public seminar). All personnel are located in the same room; there are no individuals within recording range of the camcorder, but outside of the classroom. Though a majority of the ECRIP team located this anomaly without suggestive direction or file manipulation, some did not. We therefore recommend you listen carefully!
Clip 5: During another staff-only EVP session in an upstairs classroom, ECRIP investigators Carolyn and Sandy used singing as a potential trigger activity (see definition of “triggering activity” above in Private Residence in Maryland, Clip 2). After much discussion and many attempts by ECRIP staff to recreate the sound captured — and after consulting the property owners for their own insight and analysis — ECRIP still cannot pinpoint and/or identify the cause of this audio anomaly.
Brentsville JAIL Public SEMINAR AND Ghost Hunt
The difficult part of collecting data during a public investigation is that we don't necessarily know where everyone is located at all time, and we do not recognize public event participants’ voices upon review. Because of these factors, we rarely if ever post data collected during a public investigation, but the following clips will give you a sense of what you may expect from these events. Many thanks to the participants of this event who gave us permission to share these files.
Clip 1: You will hear Kerri and two participants in the ghost hunt. The footsteps you will hear are accounted for. Any other sounds reportedly heard could not specifically be identified and accounted for, but this does not preclude a normal explanation for them.
Clip 2: A group of participants at the top of the stairs in Brentsville Jail. We have no explanation for the anomalous sound reportedly heard, although it could be someone's stomach.
Work Hazards
During a private residence case, Founders/Investigators Spencer and Kerri have set up two flashlights on the edge of a pool table in order to use the pool table as a triggering activity… and therein demonstrate how triggering activity may occasionally be hazardous to investigators and our equipment. No equipment was permanently harmed in the filming of this clip, but Spencer will never live it down.