Been doing EVP work for about six years now out of various locations across South Yorkshire, and I've kept fairly detailed logs of session conditions - temperature, humidity, lunar phase, barometric pressure, the lot. Running a Zoom H5 with a pair of Rode NT5s if that's relevant.
Honestly? My data doesn't show a clean correlation with full moon phases specifically, but I have noticed something interesting around geomagnetic disturbance events. Sessions that coincide with elevated Kp-index readings tend to produce more anomalous captures than lunar cycles do. Whether that's signal contamination or something genuinely worth investigating is another question entirely.
That said, I wouldn't dismiss the full moon observation outright. There are a few plausible mechanisms worth considering:
Atmospheric ionisation changes around lunar cycles could theoretically affect electromagnetic sensitivity, Psychological priming - investigators simply listen harder when conditions feel significant, Increased investigator numbers during notable dates means more sessions being conducted, statistically increasing capture rates
The third point is the one that kills most of these correlation claims dead, in my experience. Confirmation bias compounded by sample size issues.
What I'd actually find useful is if people posting about this are keeping consistent logs rather than just remembering the impressive sessions. Memory is absolutely rubbish at this kind of pattern recognition.
Has anyone here done any systematic comparison rather than anecdotal recall? Genuinely curious whether someone's sitting on decent longitudinal data, because that'd be far more interesting to dig into than individual accounts.
