Reverse Speech
Reverse speech is a hypothesis first put forward by Australian David John Oates. It was widely publicized on the Art Bell radio show in the 1990's.
Oates is most often credited with discovering the phenomenon and is responsible for coining the phrase Reverse Speech.
Oates doesn't claim a paranormal origin for reverse speech, but rather believes it is a natural function of human communication that is present with us since birth. In fact, he believes that children speak backward before they learn to speak forward - only we hear it as infantile goo-goos. According to Oates, "human speech has two distinctive yet complementary functions and modes. The "overt" mode is spoken forwards and is primarily under conscious control. The "covert" mode is spoken backward and is not under conscious control. In the dynamics of interpersonal communication, both modes of speech combined communicate the total psyche of the person, conscious as well as unconscious."
Reverse speech, apparently, doesn't flow as readily as normal forward speech. When normal speech is played backward, only bits and pieces of reverse speech can be recognized about every 10 to 15 seconds, says Oates, in the form of a few words or short phrases.
Oates' claim is that every time humans speak they convey two related sentences, only one of which we can hear naturally. The second message is embedded backwards into the person's speech.
This means that if a person's statement was recorded and played backwards, the speaker's unconscious thoughts could be heard.
The most famous recording that allegedly demonstrates this is the speech given by Neil Armstrong at the time of the moon landing, in which, if played backwards, the words "man will spacewalk" can supposedly be clearly heard.
However it has been argued that without prompting no one would hear this phrase, and only once we had been told what to listen for would we hear it.
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