Can Backward Audio Clips Create Real Nightmares?

[tribdog]

Want to hear something that will give you nightmares? this is a recording of a little child saying "Daddy, Daddy" then they play it backwards and it says "Please Daddy, Help!"
nightmare

 

[Chrono]

Do I really want to listen to this? All right, I'll download it, but I'm not going to listen to it now because I just know it's going to creep me out. Besides, I already got Frank Sinatra playing.

 

[Polly]

I have listened to it. What is so scarry about it? He could be playing.

 

[Smurf]

Polly, you're dead inside. This is the creepiest thing I have ever heard. I'm never going to sleep again.

 

[Polly]

I went over it again. If you listen carefully there is a bit of sound effect towards the end, that's what makes it (supposedly) creepy. But no I am not scared at all, though usually I am very squirmish.

 

[Nylex]

It wasn't scary :/.

 

[cronxeh]

hmm.. i did my own reversal of the sample and yea.. there's 'help' on it alright

initial thought - the 'help' was embedded in there - but that would require sophisticated linear software and some braining.. so that's probably a no

any thought on this from people in the know?

 

[Andy]

Yea its creepy.

 

[recon]

What about the satanic message in one of Led Zepellin's songs?

 

[cronxeh]

did my own reversal - the word 'satan' is there again. no joke

 

[Tom McCurdy]

didn't really hear it... listened to it many times

u guys have good imaginations
wonder what u would do in a cemetary alone with fog next to the old grave under the oak tree?

 

[cronxeh]

did you take the sample and reverse it? as in play it backwards??

 

[tribdog]

wonder what u would do in a cemetary alone with fog next to the old grave under the oak tree?

cry, maybe wet myself.

 

[Hurkyl]

Bah, tribdog has nothing to fear from the undead... he just needs to put his natural ability to start fires to good use!

 

[Andy]

Originally posted by Tom McCurdy
wonder what u would do in a cemetary alone with fog next to the old grave under the oak tree?

I wouldn't be there, what's the point when the zombies could get you at any time? Or the werewolfs they can get really nasty especially the American werewolfs, we had one of them in london a few years back. Very Nasty.

 

[Moonbear]

Am I going to have to be the one to chase the monsters out from under the bed too? Forward it says "Daddy Daddy" and backward it says "ee-Daddy dad." I don't hear "help me" anywhere. *sigh* I guess I won't poke tribdog and tell him to get up to check out strange noises at night, or else I'll have to fish him back out from under the bed after I finish checking it out myself.