Yeah this happens to me almost every single time now, to the point where I've started treating the static as the actual warning sign rather than just noise. Like the static IS part of the communication, not just interference before it.
Had a session a few months back in an old farmhouse near Malpas and the recorder picked up about 8 seconds of this weird layered static, almost rhythmic, and then a very clear male voice said something I still can't fully make out. Done a lot of sessions over the years and that pattern - static first, then contact - shows up way too consistently to dismiss.
My theory, and I know some people won't like this, is that whatever is attempting to communicate needs to sort of "push through" something, and the static is that process happening in real time. Like the effort of it creates the interference.
Curious whether anyone else has noticed if the length or intensity of the static correlates with how strong the subsequent contact is. Thats something I've been tracking lately but dont have enough data points yet.
