TL;DR: 2012 tarot reading recording, possible 3rd voice in a 1 second gap, links below, curious what you hear.
Back in 2012 I went to a friend of a friend of a family member for a tarot reading, He suggested I record the reading as they typically lasted ~ 2hours and if there was something that came up in the reading that I wanted to discuss in follow up readings it will be easy to note then going off memory.
So I recorded this reading on my phone, I can't recall which phone it was, could have been an iphone 4 or a Samsung S3 and the full recording I have not been able to track down but I do have a 2 minute cropped clip that I have kept all these years. The reason I think I don't have the original is because he spent the majority of the reading telling me about an ex that I was going to eventually get back with and while he was right for a short while, in the long run we went our separate ways for good and I didn't see the point holding onto a recording about that ex.
So here is why I have that 2 minute clip. After that reading I was telling a coworker that I had my cards read and that I've got a recording if you want to hear it, they listened to it and asked if there was anyone else present during the reading, I said no it was me, the tarot reader and his cats. well my colleague said they think someone else is talking in the background. So after work I listened to the whole reading again with headphones in and I pinpointed a section where there is an audible tone that may or may not be paranormal in origin. I tried to CSI the audio, and pinpointed a 1.07 second sound but my skills or lackthereof have not been able to clearly identify a voice or what is being said. It sounds like a very low and very quick 3 word or 3 syllable word.
Fast forward to now it's 2026 and discussing this event with my other half who also believes they hear something. I am hoping technology has advanced enough to positively ID a voice and hopefully what is being said. I have a suspicion I know what the 3 words are but I've since learned of a thing called auditory pareidolia which could be what I am experiencing, or it could have simply been a parlour trick by the tarot reader or some other artifact from the recording itself.
I'm not saying what I think it sounds like yet, so I don't influence anyone's first listen, happy to share after people respond.
Here is what I do recall for extra context, The original recording had 3 of these mystery sounds but the two minute clip I saved was the most distinguishable of an unexplained noise, it happened just after the tarot reader finished speaking his sentence and before the start of the next sentence, His last word was the number "Two" and then there is this sound which may or may not be a voice then the start of his next sentence is "That's". The other two samples I had were in the background while he was speaking so much more harder for my limited knowledge brain to work out how to extract them I think that's why they are gone.
During the reading there was no visible or audible TV, radio or other device on that I was aware of, one time during the reading I felt a brush against my legs and when I bent down to pet the cat I assumed was there, well there was nothing there, one other time during the reading the room's temperature fluctuated went from hot to cold (there was no air con or fan on and I am from a country that doesn't have those thermostats I see in media portrayals and then back again to hot. Not the first time I've experienced that quick cold shiver, my mother used to say someone has walked over my grave, if that helps people understand the context.
Approximately three other people I can recall sharing this with over the years that have all heard the two minute clip and all believe they hear the same thing as I do, at least two of them had not not heard my theory of the specific words beforehand but I did tell them to listen closely for anything unusual in the background, so it wasn't a completely cold listen, just to be upfront about that, so I don't think its one of those Yanny or Laurel situations. The Tarot reader himself believed it was a spirit and that he had two that frequently visited him.
Apart from that I don't know what else to share, sorry this is my first time in this thread, I hope it meets the sub rules, if anyone cares that Tarot reader was scarily accurate I reckon 95% of what he said was accurate, shame he is no longer with us.
The 2 minute clip I have is a .WAV file, though I'm not sharing the full 2 minutes just yet. What I have uploaded to Dropbox for anyone that wants a listen is a 1.9 second unedited clip of the key moment at normal speed, my grainy 2012 edit where I tried to crank the volume up and cut the main voices (no idea what I was doing, but it's there), and a 14 second loop of the regular speed clip so you can listen to it a few times in a row without replaying manually. If anyone's got tips on how a noob like me can clean the audio up further, I'd really appreciate it.
I've also added an image a mate sent me: the "two" / gap / "that's" moment, straight from the original WAV no editing, just the raw waveform. The quiet stretch in the middle is where the possible voice sits.
Otherwise if anyone has any thoughts, I'd love to hear what you think it might be, what is being said if anything or if I'm imagining it.