The Demon-Haunted Sentence A Skeptical Analysis of Reverse Speech Advocates of reverse speech propose that it is a direct path to the unconscious mind. However, there is no evidence of its existence, and accepting this pseudoscience could prove tragic. In the past several years, a researcher named David Oates has been advocating his discovery of a most interesting phenomenon.
Oates claims that backward messages are hidden unintentionally in all human speech.
The messages can be understood by recording normal speech and playing it in reverse. His company, Reverse Speech Enterprises, is dedicated to profiting from his discovery. 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.