Cat Perks

My name is Catherine Perks and I live in a small town on the North East coast of Scotland
I am a married mother of five children, an Holistic Therapist and currently studying more therapies.

I have always kept an open mind on most subjects and as a small child grew up with christian beliefs.
I have always had an interest in spirits/ghosts and feel I have found enough proof that we don't die, we just move on to another place.

I contacted Martha Copeland at her "Big Circle"website and from there started putting together
"The Circle Uk Evp Group"

My first EVP recording was left on my voice recorder whilst it was turned off.
This got me very interested and yes, at the start I was very sceptical so I had to keep a very open mind.
My first couple of recordings I did I can only describe as hundreds of voices all speaking at once.
On the next recording I obtained a very clear audible recording from a male saying "Hello Cat nice to meet with you" and many other EVP recordings followed.

I then started to receive EVP messages from my grandmother, mother and brother and once this happened the gates seemed to open.

Events got stranger around the end of September 2006... my mobile phone rang, so i picked it up, noticing it was my daughters' mobile number on the display so I said "hello" to my daughter (beforehand I was getting very frustrated at editing some of the very unclear EVP's I had captured in that week and I was just about to delete them all when I got the call)
It wasn't my oldest teenage daughter who was on the line but was very noisy with several voices all speaking at once, although I was able to understand a very clear sentence "Are you ok?"
After this the phone went dead.
A few days later I received another call to my mobile and the same thing again, this time I heard a female voice shout "Listen"...on this call I was on the phone for around six minutes.
My daughter confirmed she had not called me on either occasion, had her keypad lock enabled and there was no record of the calls being made from her mobile.

The last mobile message I received was recorded on my mobile voicemail on the 22nd October 2006 at 00.42am. When i picked up my voicemail message i could not believe my ears
There was a message from my mother and also a message from my husbands' father...

"Catherine, I'll always be there.
I love you, I'll be there for you, I love you.
It's your mum, stay happy.
Colin, he will always be there for you always.
Speak to me.
Steven and Cathy, be happy.
When your Dad starts calling, dont ever leave, leave you".

My husband also listened to this voicemail message and was previously very sceptical, but after hearing the voicemail message he soon changed his opinion.

I was having a conversation with another EVP group member one day regarding audio etc. who told me to check the audio from family videos, which thanks to her I did.
I began processing the audio from the movies I had been recording of my youngest daughter from when she was only a couple months old and discovered that from as early as 25th April 2006 my mother had been leaving messages for me.
There were a further five messages on the 27th April and more still on the 5th, 18th and 26th May 2006.

Most of the messages she left were very clear and one message I liked in particular was where she said "Asking if I am happy, message for Catherine"

From this point on I started recording EVP on my Canon A95 Powershot camera and found I was getting a 'one to one' conversation with my mother, who has since paid me a few visits just to keep an eye on things.

On the 14th November 2006 the message I received left me rather shaken as she mentioned something about 'hospital' and 'Da', so I recorded again and left her a message saying "did Grandad have an accident, was he dead, did he cross over?"

The message she gave me was:

"Waiting at hospital was seeing grandad
did he...
Yes he crossed over to...
He have able (able she meant trouble) with what he..."

The recording played in reverse said in a male voice:

"I must leave this Earth
Laugh Cathy
He's very sorry for what he did
Dinnae mean this
Go back will you"

You can understand why I was very shaken and to confirm the message I phoned my cousin whom I have not been in contact with since 2002.
My cousin confirmed my grandfather had died but couldn't remember the month.
I then contacted my uncle whom I haven't seen since I was a small child and he had learned the news from a cousin who confirmed my grandad died in July 2006.

I would like to say to people out there that this was the proof I needed as some believe it is our subconcious that is hearing EVP messages and attribute them to 'auditory hallucinations' but I have the proof to say otherwise... auditory hallucinations can not be recorded.

The dead do speak to us.
They are people but are of a higher spiritual level and can hear everything we say.
They are with us in times of sadness, joy and troubles.
My mother left a lovely message saying "If you ever need me"...she has left me a lot of messages.
Sometimes she may choose to answer my questions that I bombard her with and sometimes not.

As a researcher I try to gather as much information on evp as possible. I don’t have all the answers... that is why I am a researcher, searching for and gathering evidence.
How do the voices materialise on the tape? Again, as a researcher I do not have the answer as I am still searching for it.

On a closing note I have included a poem thats sums it all...

Do not stand at my grave and weep

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep

I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you wake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die!

Poem By Mary Frye(1932)