NPIA, is a group seeking to record messages from the dead

NWPIA seeks to record messages from the dead

It’s a short, almost inaudible whisper on an otherwise clear audio recording.

But Northwest Paranormal Investigation Agency owner Bert Coates of King County originally said it was proof of ghosts at the Olympic Club and Theatre in Centralia.

The audio was recorded in the wee hours of the morning during an investigation into paranormal activity in Lewis County on NWPIA’s second trip to the Twin Cities in July.

“I’m sure that it’s a ghost,” Coates said. “We run through everything we possibly can to make sure it isn’t something else. We’re coming up with it being a ghost. I don’t know what else it could be.”

Coates, 42, said he is aware that some people, maybe most, will be skeptical of any finding. A skeptic will always be a skeptic no matter what, he says. Part of being a ghost hunter is to be a skeptic as well, he said.


The audio recording was thought to be an example of Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP), the leading tool for the more than 70 active and inactive paranormal research teams in Washington. The belief, as Coates explains it, is that the sounds occur at a frequency higher or lower than human ears can recognize. It could be that ghosts are able to communicate more easily with sensitive machines than they are with the human auditory system, according to Coates.

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