Derren.Brown.Investigates.Part.3B.mpg

[Ins1000]

Derren isn't allergic to cats... he's just allergic to bullshit. :P

[likerollinstone]

if a voice controlled you to kill your boyfriend in your own house, why would you spend another second in that house

[kittyloaf]

@likerollinstone The real question is why not get help for your Schizophrenia and sleep walking.

[daswada9]

02:01 a men bang a bed o_O

[pimpmymail]

LOL at the coin !!!!!!!

[InnerSmile72]

"sometimes listening to the evp can trigger an even worse reaction" No shit you're freaking people out! "Ahhh something warm is running down my leg!" (south park reference)

[554466551]

Love how Lou describes how dangerous it is for the haunted parties to hear their own EVP recordings and then disregards their safety completely. I guess TV grandstanding trumps their personal wellbeing. Not that I believe in this stuff, but that's what Lou has to be thinking.

[balleslyng]

That guy should invest in a new dictaphone thingy. Too much static crackle. If there really were ghosts around you would want a better one to record with would you not?

[computersolutions164]

@balleslyng Well now i am into electronics and what the guy said in the shop was totally correct, if you have a voice activated recording device then, then its overall sensitivity will be governed by automatic volume level, the more sensitive you make one of these circuits, the more prone to noise it becomes, transistors and IC's produce noise in their semiconductor junctions when the swtich and this can be amplified, which is what is being heard on the recording

[computersolutions164]

@balleslyng Look up "Noise Gate" or "AVC" on Google. The quieter the surroundings the higher the sensitivity and therefore more noise

[jediman05]

@balleslyng I can't help but wonder why the EVP isn't ever picked up by the TV microphones. Both here and in all those other shows about ghost hunters, the fancy, high quality mic picks up nothing while the low-quality recorder that sounds like static anyway is suddenly more sensitive. Makes perfect sense to me...

[computersolutions164]

@jediman05 Microphones and sound equipment used for TV broadcast is generally in a different league to the "normal" casual user type of kit. the S/N ratio of professional kit is usually a lot higher and built with much closer tolerance components. This affects its price too.

[jediman05]

@computersolutions164 That was kind of my point, being that wouldn't the ghost be picked up in all the mics, or at least talk to the nicest where you might actually be able to understand it. I've never heard anything that sounded remotely like a word on an EVP

[computersolutions164]

@jediman05 I've never heard anything lie a word in EVP either. I think Derren has a point when he says that "We are hard wired to find recognisable shapes like faces in otherwise random images". Is it also possible that we are equally hard wired to heard recognisable sounds in otherwise random static too

[Canadianabanana]

"What was that?!"

*british voice* "sorry I dropped a coin".

Derren's crew certainly know how to ruin a mood! lol

[truvelocity]

Derren is miserable with his allergy. Poor guy.