Mystery AtlasAuditory Pareidolia
The well-documented psychological tendency to perceive recognisable speech or other meaningful patterns within genuinely random or ambiguous sound, especially once a listener has been primed with an expected phrase.
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Theories & Explanations
Auditory Pareidolia attempts to explain "Paul Is Dead" Rumour — Explains why primed listeners heard confirming phrases in backwards or ambiguous audio, such as the 'Revolution 9' backmasking claim, though it accounts for only the audio-based clues within the wider rumour.
Auditory Pareidolia attempts to explain Electronic Voice Phenomena.
Science & Technology
Auditory Pareidolia is frequently compared to Ideomotor Effect — Both are unconscious psychological processes, pattern-imposing for pareidolia, movement-generating for the ideomotor effect, that explain apparently paranormal phenomena without invoking anything external.
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