The creators of the TV show Lost are often filling the shows with clues for the audience to figure out what the show is all about. I’ve never been able to follow the show—I guess that’s what happens if you try to jump in halfway through a season—but fans of the show may find this interesting.
In the scene where Karl is strapped to a chair in Room 23, there is a backwards message embedded in the audio. It’s pretty clear (at least in the reversed clip) and the person/people that made the clip wrote what it is your going to hear on the top of the clip, so no sense in saving it until after you’ve watched the video… the message, spoken by a woman, repeats the phrase, “Only fools are enslaved by time and space”.
Here is the scene forward and reverse:
And here is the same scene reversed with subtitle prompts:
I can’t vouch for the fact that the audio hasn’t been adjusted in any way.
Update: I checked the audio myself and it appears to be a legitimate reversal, though the audio was more clear in this version than in the version I flipped myself, but it was still there. (link to lost-s03e07-reversed-clip.mp3)
March 13th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Would have been interesting, but the video of the reverse message has been removed from you tube.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Video has been removed
April 4th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Thanks guys. I found someone else’s uploaded version of the same video so it should be working again.
May 7th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Hi. I have found an backward message in a Green Day song , the backward sounds like: Satan was my mom.
I find it kinda odd and I would be happy to publish it to U , i mean i send it to u and u listen to it and publish it.
It realy says: Satan was my mom.
May 8th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Videos not working. May want to fix them
April 15th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
that is some freaky crap yo