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[Nitsujest]

[IronJ146]

Well, good, at least people ARE seeing something in it whether it's important or not. I don't feel so crazy. Hopefully someone with better eyes then I have can check it out.

[nooneimportant77]

wait are we looking at the txt file for the backwards roar ?
because if we are that means someone made the roar backwards through a program and then saved it and put it on the web and you downloaded it which means who knows what kind of things could have happened to the original code

[IronJ146]

[i_c_weiner]

Would the forward clip saved on those sites be the same as the original file from 1-18-08.com? Could there be something hidden in that file as well?

I think the fact that something looking like "Why I am sorry" popping up in there is odd, considering people claimed to hear things in the sound clip. Personally, I think it look like "Why I am sorcey." I searched "sorcey" on Google, with Juliet Sorcey as the result. She's currently 27. That'd put her at the age of the Slusho 7. Yeah, I may be looking into this too much, but could she possibly be in the film as an unnamed character? I've never heard of her, so her attachment to the movie doesn't mean much. Also, it'd be pretty lame and elaborate for them to put something like that to be found in the file of a roar on 1-18-08.com.

[IronJ146]

[Oniduo]

i think your looking into the 27 and sorcey thing too much.

[Truthspeaker]

 

[IronJ146]

I like to play on my Jump2Conclusions mat sometimes. It's fun.

[IronJ146]

[Oniduo]

*confused*



Post this.....song you speak of...

[Truthspeaker]

[Euchre]

The one instance with the repeated text you'll note comes with the LAME encoder version. The same basic repetition occurs at the beginning of the file and the end, although not the same amount of times.
I think you'll find that they are the ID3 tags. I think (not sure) ID3v2 and ID3v3 are at opposite ends of the file. A bunch of empty fields is probably what you'll find if you look at the tags under the file's info in any media player that supports reading such tags. If the MP3 version opened in that case is the one originally embedded they MIGHT put clues in an ID3 tag, but I'd guess they did not. If it's someone's re-encode of the audio playback, they are responsible for any ID3 info the file would contain. MP3s can also have NO ID3 tag, hence why some variants of the sound have no such artifacts when you try to parse them as text.

I loaded the sound in Audacity after I grabbed a copy and reversed it. Sounds interesting, but what's most useful about it is sometimes you hear one of the sounds added into the composite to make the effect. This backmasking changes many normal sounds into very eerie things. I find it interesting that the 'inhale' sound doesn't sound very different forwards or backwards. I've also compared the sound to the 'bloop' sound and find them to be of a similar sounding basis. I think it's possible the 'bloop' was one inspiration for JJ or for his sound effect creator(s).
The only other thing I found funny was how roughly similar the reversed track sounds to the 'THX sound'.

[Josh]

[crashg60]

I've read in so many places that the roar is important......the main website was shut down for a while and then BAM....after six minutes you get what?....a roar. Didn't JJ himself say the roar was important? The one thing that I would like to see/hear is a cleaned up version of the reverse roar to see if there IS anything being said right around 8 seconds.