Spook: Chapter 8

5 Comment:

1. 14 emigrants died by savage snow and being starved in 1846 in California.
2. The EVP movement started in 1959.
3. Swedish opera singers were interested in recording "bird songs".
4. Some people recorded sounds that could be coming from the dead, such as hissing sounds between stations in a radio.
5. Rob Murakami is a ghost hunter.

4 Questions:

1. What does EVP stand for?
2. Does it mean Swedish people believed in ghost and wanted to find them?
3. What do they mean by "bird songs"?
4. EVP was basically first invented in Europe?

3 Vocabulary:

1. EVP - [not found in dictionary]
2. Amateur - a person who engages in study for pleasure rather than professional reasons
3. Rasp - to scrape with a rough instrument

2 Literary Term:

1. "...we look like other tour groups..." [simile]
2. "...it's like a tornado..." [simile]

1 Overview:

This chapter is about telecomunicating with the dead.