August 1, 1997: Reverse Speech - David John Oates
The Art Bell Archive · Arthur William Bell III
November 10, 20232h 55m
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Show Notes
Art Bell welcomes David Oates, the founder of reverse speech analysis, for an evening of startling audio reversals covering Colonel Philip Corso, President Clinton, and NASA. The broadcast opens with Art mourning the death of his beloved Hewlett-Packard 950 fax machine before turning to the serious business of playing recorded speech backwards to reveal hidden messages embedded in forward dialogue.
Oates explains that the human brain constructs speech sounds so that a second message communicates simultaneously in reverse, occurring roughly every 10 to 15 seconds as short phrases with over 80 percent contextual relevance to the forward words. He demonstrates with infant reversals, including babies saying intelligible phrases months before learning to speak forward. Art and Oates conduct a live experiment proving that listeners cannot hear a suggested reversal unless it actually exists in the audio.
The centerpiece of the program is the analysis of Colonel Corso, whose reversals Oates declares completely congruent and truthful. Reversals including ''sworn the general,'' ''it was so real,'' and ''produced illegal patents'' directly support Corso''s claims about Roswell crash debris being seeded into American industry. Oates also plays Clinton budget speech reversals and the classic George Bush inauguration reversal where a commentator''s words play back as ''you''re fired.''
Oates explains that the human brain constructs speech sounds so that a second message communicates simultaneously in reverse, occurring roughly every 10 to 15 seconds as short phrases with over 80 percent contextual relevance to the forward words. He demonstrates with infant reversals, including babies saying intelligible phrases months before learning to speak forward. Art and Oates conduct a live experiment proving that listeners cannot hear a suggested reversal unless it actually exists in the audio.
The centerpiece of the program is the analysis of Colonel Corso, whose reversals Oates declares completely congruent and truthful. Reversals including ''sworn the general,'' ''it was so real,'' and ''produced illegal patents'' directly support Corso''s claims about Roswell crash debris being seeded into American industry. Oates also plays Clinton budget speech reversals and the classic George Bush inauguration reversal where a commentator''s words play back as ''you''re fired.''