Little Boy Giggling?

Update: We had a third camera in the back of the auditorium that upon review also captured this. I have decided it is just someone in the group and am satisfied that it is nothing more. I do not see any way that it could have been loud enough to be caught on a camera in the back of the auditorium and not have been heard by us at the time. If we heard it, we obviously accepted it as one of the group. I am posting this update to show that I really do take the quality of what I post seriously and I don't want anyone to accuse me of hiding or removing posts.

This was captured early during our July 24th, 2010 investigation of the Rohs Opera House. We had a Sony Super Nightshot digital cassette camcorder set up on the stage and aimed at the balcony.

This clip was captured during our last dowsing session of the evening. The video is inconsequential, it's the audio that caught my ear. At the time we were talking to a little boy spirit that is believed to visit the theater, but not stay there.

There seems to be a laugh or giggle that doesn't fit in.

I'm not sure about the validity, and at the time of posting I am still reviewing the audio to see if I can eliminate it as being one of the investigators from that night. It made me stop and listen. Since I cannot explain it, I thought I would share it.

The camera's microphone is directional¹. As you can hear, our voices from only a few feet away - but below where it is aimed - are slightly muffled. The only sound that comes close to matching the giggle in volume is when someone coughs, but the giggle sounds like it originated very close to the microphone.

I have not eliminated the possibility that it was one of the investigators. At this posting these were the only occurrences of the sound I have found.

Unfortunately, we had our digital voice recorder turned off at this time². The sound was however caught just as clearly on the other identical camera that was running on the other side of the stage, aimed at the opposite side of the balcony. Because it was caught on both cameras I am having trouble pronouncing it as an EVP³ but I am also having trouble figuring out why the sound is so clear under the circumstances.

Here is the clip from the other camera. Compare for yourself.

Camcorder microphones are designed to record only what happens in front of the camera. This is why you so rarely hear the camera operator breathing even though his mouth is about 8 inches from the microphone.
One of the young boys that came with the group was convinced he had caught an EVP on his recorder and had been playing it over and over. Since it was late in the investigation we figured we would let him have his fun. Besides, we were concentrated on the dowsing rods and weren't really thinking about catching audio at the time.
EVP's are generally VERY soft and isolated. For this to be an EVP it had to uncharacteristically be caught as true audio or imprinted on both cameras at once.