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August 31, 2006

Hidden Messages: They're Back(ward)!

Anyone who was active in the fundamentalist Christian movement during the 1970s will remember the hype about "backward masking" – the supposedly intentional demonic messages that one could only hear by playing popular songs backwards. I remember listening to "Stairway to Heaven" backward on a reel-to-reel and hearing, "Here's to my sweet Satan." Christian teens everywhere burned their Led Zeppelin tapes and records.

Did you ever wonder what became of the whole "backward masking" nonsense? Believe it or not, it appears to be making a comeback. Today it is called "reverse speech" and people with apparently nothing better to do than listen to recordings played backward are finding all sorts of what they believe are secret messages.

Before the Desert Storm was officially announced American troops were conducting operations in the gulf, entitled operation Desert Shield. During the time I was analysing public statements on President Bush and Defence Secretary Cheney. I kept on finding one word that appeared several times. The word was “Simoon.” It appeared in a complete phrase on President Bush saying, “Simoon, Simoon in the sands.” I later found that this was Arabic word meaning a “dust storm in the desert” or Desert Storm. I went public with this information in several radio interviews and was stunned when “Operation Desert Storm” was eventually announced. Reverse Speech had found the name of the operation before it was officially announced.

We had another success in finding the names of military operations in reverse several years later while Bill Clinton was in office. I found a reversal on weapons inspector, Scott Ritter, that said “Our wrath won’t shake the fox”, referencing Saddam Hussein. Shortly afterwards President Clinton announced fresh missions in the gulf and Iraq, entitled Operation Desert Fox.

On the subject of Bill Clinton, I began finding reversals of a sexual nature on Bill Clinton halfway into his Presidency. One phrase in particular said, “Had sex with an Oregon Madam.” I played this and other reversals on several media outlets and was accused of bias by some commentators. Imagine my surprise when the eventual sex scandals went public and it came to light that Monica Lewinski had gone to college in Oregon. Reverse Speech had got it right again!

The most recent triumph of reverse speech is their amazing discovery that confessed child-killer John Karr was faking it. They figured it out before investigators did, if you can believe that. Because, of course, the rest of us didn't have a clue.

I'd just like to know how those secret messages get in all those public statements. Is there a band of evil techies who work in television stations all over the country and slap the messages on before broadcasting them? Have all these people figured out how to talk backwards and forwards at the same time? Is it some sort of display of unconscious extra sensory ability? Are demons toying with their evil prey by sneaking incriminating messages into their statements as they speak, so they will unwittingly give themselves away?

Or could it be that many people have the potential to be complete nut cases even while appearing sane and are able to convince themselves of all manner of ridiculous things, including that random coincidences of sound actually have meaning?

Posted by Becky at August 31, 2006 10:23 AM