Giles Corey - Empty Churches lyrics

Voices of unknown origin appearing on
Radio frequencies were first
Noticed in Scandinavia by the
Military in the 30s
And were put down at the time to secret
Nazi transmitters but the voices
Spoke in unknown
And mixed tones and after the war
No records of secret Nazi transmissions
Ever came to light the
Voices didn’t stop after the
War but their repeatability
And their transient nature precluded
Study that is
Until the tape recorder came into
Common usage in the
50s a group of radio hams in Chicago studied
The strange transmissions male and females
Voices speaking in polyglot
Mode and lyrical tones but it was not
Until 1959 that a Russian-born Swedish
Citizen radio and TV
Producer and film maker Frederich
Jurgenson noticed intrusions on
Tape and commenced his own
Systematic study a disturbing
Fact soon emerged the voices zeroed in onto
The Swede, addressing him by name
Revealing a knowledge of his thoughts and
Actions and claiming to be the
Voices of deceased friends and acquaintances
The news spread rapidly and
Soon, experimenters and scientists all
Over the world were attempting to duplicate
Jurgenson’s work prominent
Among them was the Latvian Psychologist
Konstantin Raudive
The effect on parapsychologists was dramatic
Accustomed to investigating the
Blind forces of
The poltergeist and endless and somewhat
Boring card and dice experiments that were
Confronted at once with living voices
Which answered back speech being a
Mark of intelligence and a
Highly structured artifact taken
By surprise, the British Parapsychologists
Without conducting experiments
Rejected the objectivity of the voices
Explaining them
As breakthrough from taxis, police messages
Or simply mechanical noises
In the tape recorder but
Their European counterparts were
More cautious and possibly, with
Greater technical resources
They soon found out that
They were indeed confronted
With voices of unknown origin on tape

Maybe I'm just feeling crushed

(I tried to convey to you, before you
Die, an indication of survival after death
But you didn’t?)