April 30, 2016 - I took my gopro camera out today when going to a store near Brentwood / Clayton Missouri in Central Saint Louis. A severe thunderstorm kicked up rapidly over the area , which produced a very impressive supercell , wall cloud(s), large hail, and damaging winds. Several views of the wall cloud and supercell were captured around highway 40/64 + Brentwood over to East to to Clayton. Media outlets are reporting on the event , and heavy hail ended up falling around the area : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0_J6mg61mU http://www.ksdk.com/news/hail-falls-in-force-around-st-louis/162507941 _____ _____ The womans voice... To head off questions at the pass about the voice that was picked up by the camera: NOTE I do NOT think it was paranormal in any way. Read on to find out what I think caused this. My explanation is just as good as a paranormal one! :D _____ Circumstances of the voice being picked up: I decided to drive a bit to capture the storm while in the car, and as I was driving, upon review of the video, my gopro camera picked up a voice that I did not hear while driving. You can hear the womans voice clear as day on camera even though I heard nothing in the car while driving, heard at approximately 1min 37sec into the video. CLEARLY the words "Is the baby sleeping with you" are picked up as I drive up the road... this is not a hoax, nor did I stage this in any way. There must be a logical explanation for this event. Before anyone goes paranormal on me.. let's run down our more likely options for the audio source. Most likely, the voice which was picked up had something to do with the storms electrical charge, the microwave wifi on the GoPro camera, the small microphone also in the camera, a passing baby monitor, and some rather complex radio wave physics. :) How could a gopro micro-camera pick up something like a baby monitor radio wave or stray broadcast signal of some kind without a receiver? Gopro cameras are not setup to receive audio from outside radio sources like baby monitors, or FM/AM radio... but.. they do have a small microwave wifi antenna built in that is default "off" in the camera, and they have a microphone that works on DC electric. How could wifi convert to audio? Most likely, the wifi on the Gopro picked up a signal from a wifi baby mon picked up a by the wifi on my gopro if the wifi antenna in the camera was somehow "charged" from the storm.... then the audio converted from wifi to the camera by means of AC to DC then to Microphone, then recorded as actual audio vibration osciallations. It was most likely AC from an antenna like a baby monitor mixing with the overall charge of the storm in the surrounding air... as my car moved down the road the moving gopro camera wifi antenna possibly became "charged" and received the baby monitor signal. The AC signal of the woman speaking from a wifi baby monitor could convert to DC when the baby monitor signal hits the gopro wifi antenna, and travels to ground. However, as the electrical current from the baby monitor radio transmission is heading to ground, the vibration or oscillation of the audio from the baby monitor would still be "embedded" in the DC electrical current traveling to ground, and then , finally the gopro camera microphone would be hit by the vibrating DC current going through the whole camera, and would reconvert the DC electrical signal into "audio"picked up by the camera microphone + 'heard' in the video ...but NOT HEARD by human ears. Thus, I heard nothing in the car, or over the speakers of my car, and there was no one else in the car with me to say anything. To answer other obvious questions: The car radio was completely off, and I was holding/propping the camera up on the dashboard. No other audio of any kind was turned on, and my mobile phone was in the console of the car. The windows were rolled up during the event. The location is next to Oak Knoll park in Clayton Missouri , heading West on Clayton Road just after Big Bend Road, just before Crestwood Road. Exact location where the voice was picked up: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6356413,-90.3240131,19.25z Regardless of the source, while inaudible to the human ear, on camera the voice is female, very loud, and asking about a baby. Quite frankly, how the gopro picked up stray inaudible audio is beyond my pay grade! Hey man, I just work here (on youtube) :) Just enjoy the storm!

• published: 01 May 2016
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