Art Bell welcomes back Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath from the Ghost Investigators Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to capturing Electronic Voice Phenomena. Art considers their work among the most compelling evidence for life after death he has encountered in all his years of broadcasting. The two investigators use only brand new, never-before-recorded tapes and have recently begun experimenting with digital recorders as well.
Brendan and Barbara discuss the shift from analog to digital recording and the debate it has sparked between them. Barbara prefers the familiarity of physical tape, while Brendan acknowledges that digital produces cleaner results with less background noise. They explore the working theory that spirits may be manipulating existing sound in the atmosphere rather than imprinting voices electromagnetically, which would explain why both recording methods capture the phenomena equally well.
Throughout the program, Art plays EVP recordings captured at various investigation sites, and the voices carry specific messages that cannot be easily dismissed. The investigators explain their methodology with precision, emphasizing that they accept no money and sell no merchandise. Art notes that EVP research traces back to Thomas Edison, who believed electronic equipment might provide a pathway to communicate with the dead.
