A few months ago, I came by a news story that talked about a show that claims to have contacted John Lennon in the afterlife and recorded a message from him. Now I may not believe that God exists but I do not discount the possibility that ghosts do, having had my share of unexplainable experiences. However, there was just something a little odd about this show.

First off, they charged $9.95 to see it on Pay Per View. Now I don't know about you but I tend to get a little suspicious when I have to pay to witness a supernatural event especially when the universe will gladly provide them to you for free. Second, this was the second act of an ongoing play with the first act having been a dismal failure. In 2003, these people tried to contact Princess Diana but apparently she was out to tea with Elizabeth I because they couldn't get a hold of her. However, they managed to rake in $8 million dollars for the effort.

So they get $8 mil for a busy signal, I can only imagine what an actual pick up will bring in.

Mr. Lennon answered their call through the voice feed of one the psychics they had onsite, classifying his contact as an EVP. EVP stands for Electronic Voice Phenomenon which is the belief that spirits communicate to us through radio and television signals. Think of the movie 'White Noise' with Micheal Keaton or 'Poltergeist I' where Karolann gets sucked into her closet and then later calls for her mother through the television set. Creepy.

I, personally, don't believe the idea of EVP to be that far fetched. Even a cursory study of science will bring you in contact with things that exist but cannot be readily perceived by the senses. Gravity and atoms are two such items. The question I'm posing is, was it really the ghost of John Lennon that is speaking from the other side or the result of other, more logical, causes?

On one hand, we don't know what happens to us after death. We only have best guesses and suppositions. When I studied Judaism, I was given the link to an interesting paper that talked about different levels of existence. The author of the paper stated that the "higher beings" vibrated at a high frequency and that "lower beings" vibrated at low frequency both of which were outside of our range of perception though both groups could clearly see us. What if it is true and sound and video waves vibrate at just the right frequency to bridge the communication gap between us and them?

Then again there are a variety of logical origins for this type of phenomenon. It could be a mathematical anomaly like those caused in fractal music. Mathematical algorithms are used to compose this type of music. The result is often...interesting but one of the more bizarre things about fractal music is that every so often the algorithm will produce a series of sounds similar to a human voice speaking.