"I am an amateur ghost hunter living in Memphis," says Don Kopcial. "I wanted to share an EVP that I recorded spring of 2006 at Fort Pillow an old Civil War battleground in West Tennessee about 45 miles north of Memphis. I was accompanied to Fort Pillow by a reporter and a cameraman from the Memphis newspaper The Commercial Appeal; they were doing a series of articles on things to do in Tennessee along the Mississippi River.
"We went to Fort Pillow on a warm spring afternoon and I attempted to show them what a ghost hunter does on an investigation. That can be a little tricky to do on a sunny afternoon outside when a ghost hunter usually works in the dark. We collected several very good EVP recordings on our outing.
"This EVP was recorded at the site where some cabins and tents housing wounded soldiers after the battle had been set afire, killing most of those soldiers. The cameraman was standing beside me holding a big camera with a very long lens. Consider what a camera looked like in the Civil War times versus today's newspaper cameraman's camera and lenses with almost a gun-like appearance.
"I call out to any ghost who might be there, 'Can you give us a sign? Can you fly by, ah, move by this camera?' Then you'll hear a very distinct voice ask, 'Why? Cause there are bullets in it?'"
