Been lurking on this thread for a bit but had to jump in because this is almost exactly what's been happening to me down in Cumbria over the past few months.
I've got a converted Victorian cellar and started running a Zoom H5 alongside an old Panasonic RR-DR60 (the classic, I know) and the responses I'm getting are genuinely unnerving in how direct they are. Asked ". Is anyone here with me". One session and got back what sounds unmistakably like ". Always been." Played it to three people independently, no prompting - all three heard the same phrase.
What's throwing me is the relevance. Random noise or residual haunting stuff I could rationalise away, but conversational replies feel like a completely different category of experience, doesn't it?
Few questions for anyone else getting this:
Are you using any particular session structure, or just open recording?, Do the responses seem to come from a consistent ". Voice". Or does it vary?, Has anyone tried cross-referencing sessions to see if the same entity is responding over time?
I'm half wondering whether the stone construction down here is a factor - there's a lot written about limestone and granite potentially acting as some kind of recording medium. Could the geology be amplifying or enabling something?
Would love to know if others are documenting these properly or just capturing in the moment. Feels like this deserves more rigorous methodology than most EVP work gets.