The 13 Most Awful American Fears

Our spooky Halloween odyssey through fear begins with 13 on our list and an old favorite of American and British mass hysteria: the menace of backmasking. Recording backwards audio messages has been around for as long as creepy magicians have been able to speak "natas liah" into a Dictaphone.

The concept of incorporating hidden backwards messages into musical compositions rose to popularity thanks to the Beatles. Those fiendish occultists from Liverpool added reversible lyrics to several of their songs, including vile messages like, "When the rain comes, they run and hide their heads" from the song "Rain."

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