Anyone else get random names during EVP sessions that don't match the location's history?

Happens all the time on my spirit box sessions. Get names that have zero connection to the location, no record of anyone by that name ever being there, nothing in the history books. Most people jump straight to "residual energy from somewhere else" or "the spirit travelled" but honestly I reckon a good chunk of it is just radio bleed and our brains doing pattern recognition on white noise. We're hardwired to hear names and words, its what we do.

That said I had a session in an old colliery building last year and got the name Margaret repeated three times clear as anything. Checked every record I could find, nothing. But my mate who came with me went white as a sheet - his nan was called Margaret and she'd died the week before. Make of that what you will.

Anyone else got examples where the name meant something to someone present rather than the location itself? Curious if thats a pattern or just coincidence.

@TenebrousYorkshire happens a lot and people overlook the obvious explanations before jumping to anything paranormal. The name might belong to someone who passed through briefly - a traveller, a delivery man, someone who died nearby but not on the actual site. Historical records are patchy at best, especially pre-Victorian.

There's also the stone tape theory angle, though that's more about residual energy than named individuals.

What I'd ask is - are these common names or unusual ones? Because if you're getting "John" or "Mary" that's practically useless as evidence. But if you're getting something unusual and it keeps repeating across multiple sessions, that's worth digging into properly. Have you cross-referenced with parish records rather than just the buildings history? The land itself has a history that predates whatever was built on it.