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This reminds me of when people talk about hearing demonic messages in popular songs when played backwards. I think Stairway to Heaven is one of the more famous examples

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It reminded me of the Ghost Hunters show, where they are constantly playing spooky audio that they recorded and finding words and sentences in it. It's almost always the same format as in this article: play some spooky sound, then say what they think it says and then play it again (with subtitles). You can almost always hear the words after they are suggested. But then they treat this like actual evidence of ghosts :-/.

Also, this phenomena is occurring to me frequently as my 2 year old nephew is learning to talk. He tries to communicate with me, saying a word over and over and it doesn't click until he points at the object he's talking about or my sister tells me what he's saying and then his mangled speech suddenly makes complete sense.

Our brains are so cool.

Yes me too. See also:

http://reversespeech.com/reversal/popular-reverse-speech-exa...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_speech

http://www.tcprs.com/evps.html (disembodied voice examples.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer-expectancy_effect

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