The Skeptic2009

Dr. Warren Koven:
The human voice is not real complex. It's a sound that nature has very little difficulty mimicking. Now, what I'm gonna play for you is real. It was recorded in a farmhouse in the Berkshires, 1976. [He begins typing on his computer] It was heard by multiple witnesses, caught on tape, sworn to in an affidavit. Okay? It's the real McCoy. Uh, please. [He beckons Becket over, and Becket slides his chair to sit near the computer. Koven starts a brief audio file that sounds like someone sighing or whispering] Isn't that amazing? This is an authentic aural event. Now, that's probably what we call a chi cluster. It's a build-up of chi field energy then released into the sonic spectrum.

Bryan Becket:
But it's not words.

Dr. Warren Koven:
What do you mean?

Bryan Becket:
How does it come out as words? You know? In an intelligent sentence structure.

Dr. Warren Koven:
Well, it doesn't. I mean, maybe it does once in a million, like those monkeys typing sonnets, but...

Bryan Becket:
No, but it did. For me. The voice that I heard spoke. It did not just say oooh ahhh, it said something like, "An old trunk." And it kept repeating it, over and over. "An old trunk," or "In an old trunk." As if to suggest that I...