Sarah Wilson Estep can be considered the last of the great EVP pioneers capturing over 20,000 voices which she claimed had origins from other dimensions, extra terrestrial and from loved ones that have passed on.
At a very early age her interest in life after death was evident with her reading material based on fiction and the paranormal. She simply wasn’t willing to accept that once the physical body dies we reach a finite point.
Sarah found a book while browsing at the library entitled “Handbook of PSI Discoveries” disclosing in two chapters the recording of spirit voices from authors by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder which quoted the possibility of communication from well known researchers.
Destined to explore the possibility, on October 24th, 1976 Sarah proceeded to make a short recording using her husband’s reel to reel. The book had suggested using a set of questions and in time communication would be achievable.
One week had passed without success and her impatience grew resulting in a changing of her format of questions. She asked, “Please tell me what your world is like” and received an almost immediate response on her recording once reviewed with a single word “Beauty”.
Like any committed researcher she began a journal documenting results and her interpretations of the unknown voices of origin. She still wasn’t satisfied with the frequency of her results so she began experimenting like Friedrich Jürgenson, and Konstantin Raudive with cross-modulation of radio frequencies yielding far more audio captures.
Electronic Voice Phenomena prior to Sarah Estep’s exploration was more European mainstream and the classification of the phenomena was complex and controversial. Sarah by occupation what a grade school teacher and from collaboration with Konstantin Raudive a new system was developed using an “ABC” classification.
In 1982, Sarah established the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (A.A.E.V.P.) in the United States and achieved great success with membership in a short period of time but after 18 years she turned it over to Tom and Lisa Butler.
During her lifetime, Sarah wrote 2 books entitled “Voices to Eternity” and "Roads to Eternity". Her second book is still in print at this link from Galde Press. Thankfully, her first book is available at no charge in Adobe Acrobat format from the A.A.E.V.P. from this link.
Unfortunately, on January 3rd, 2008 Sarah Wilson Estep passed on peacefully at the golden age of 83. She inspired so many through her 30 years of research and her outspoken views brought Electronic Voice Phenomena to the United States with a classification system in a much needed simplified form.
On a personal note, my mentor was tutored by Sarah Estep and in some ways I feel my own research is motivated by her indirectly including my methodology and protocol during recording sessions.