BBC Radio 4 piece on EVP – did anyone listen? Absolute shambles

Right, so I caught the tail end of a segment on Today this morning about EVP recording and electronic voice phenomena. They had some bloke from a university laughing his socks off at the whole thing, saying it's just pattern recognition and wishful thinking. Fair enough, scepticism's healthy, but they didn't even interview a single practitioner. Not one.

Has anyone else got thoughts on how the media handles this stuff? I've been recording for five years now and I've got some absolutely compelling material - class A, Class B, all the lot - but you'd never know it from listening to mainstream telly. They just wheel out the debunkers.

What's your experience been with journos? Are they worth engaging with or do we just look mad?

The BBC's been dodgy on paranormal stuff forever, mate. Remember that rubbish 'investigation' into Borley Rectory in 2019? They spent twenty minutes on the history and five seconds on actual phenomena. I stopped trying to engage with mainstream media years ago - they've already made their minds up before they show up.

I actually spoke to a producer from Channel 4 last year about doing a feature on my EVP work. Spent three hours talking to her, showed her my best recordings, everything. The segment never aired. When I chased it up, she admitted they "couldn't find a scientific angle that worked for commissioning." Translation: no sceptical counterpoint meant no programme.

They just wheel out the debunkers.

THIS. And the debunkers are always the same three or four academics who've clearly never actually done the work. They've read papers about it. That's not the same as sitting in a cold room with a digital recorder at 2am listening to actual voices come through.

Tbh I think we need to stop blaming the media. If our evidence was genuinely reproducible and scientifically sound, it wouldn't need defending on daytime telly. The uncomfortable truth is EVP is difficult to validate consistently. I've been doing this for ages and even I'll admit maybe 60% of what I record is compelling, 40% is... well, it's probably just audio artefacts.