Lecture Description: We have verified that these creatures use language by the human definition of it. The months of hard work that we have put into the study of the Berry/Morehead tapes is finally coming to fruition. The analysis is finished, although I am still working on parts of the final write-up such as frequency count tables, morpheme lists, etc.
I believe that the study of these tapes will never (and should never) end. With the recognition and acceptance that these creatures do indeed speak and understand a complex language, a greater effort will be made to collect voice recordings and our analysis of the language will improve. Now that we have a precedent and techniques established for this study, this process will certainly become easier.
Speaker: Scott Nelson
Scott Nelson is retired from the U.S. Navy as a Crypto-Linguist with over 30 years’ experience in Foreign Language and Linguistics, including the collection, transcription, analysis and reporting of voice communications. He is a two time graduate of the U.S. Navy Cryptologic Voice Transcription School (Russian and Spanish) and has logged thousands of hours of voice transcription in his target languages as well as in Persian. He is currently teaching Russian, Spanish, Persian, Philosophy and Comparative Religions at Wentworth College in Missouri.
LUCAS P
Interesting subject, boring presentation unfortunately. The loud whistle on every “s” doesn’t help either.
Jonathan B
Lolol the A’s were absolute killing my soul.
Richard P
Ron gives a nice lecture, and he doesn’t shy away from the ET nexus.
I’m going to take a couple of days off next week and set up a campsite at the dry lakebed LZ 26 miles into the forest and do an overnight and start field testing electronics. Thermal, night vision, digital stereo recorder, camcorder, 35 mm camera, telephoto lens’s, lights, lasers, etc.. Primarily for ET\ED contact work. But if bigfoots show up as they have in the past. I’ll put them into the mix and see what plays out.
I dropped my 12 gauge and 30-06 off at the gunsmiths this afternoon for specops builds. They may not be done in time for next weeks op. So I may bring my .223 rifle and .40 S&W carbine. I have tracer and green tip AP for the .223, and 200 grain flat nose hard cast lead ammo for the .40 S&W. And 30 round mags for both guns. The .223 has an illuminated reticle 3×9 scope. Both are credible bear or bigfoot defence guns. They’re not as powerful as what’s in the shop. But they can get the job done with enough hits. Head shots in particular. Hopefully I won’t have to use them. But I’ll be a lot more comfortable having them with me.
Melissa K
Fascinating, here is another specialist who believes.
Ed M
In this case, Anthropomorphizing is certainly expected if not necessary in the interpretation of the sounds. Nice to see the subject explored.
Marilyn W
Embarrassingly fake
David C
Why?
rosalyn b
Absolutely fascinating. This is probably an academic lecture for a class, so it’s not the entertainment quality of , say, a Ted Talk. He’s a professor and if you’ve spent any time in academia, you know that very few professors are great speakers – but the knowledge and analysis of the linguistic aspect of these recordings is mind blowing to me.
Alice F
Great to see a lecture from Scott Nelson. Thank you.
Rita M
Very interesting and informative!!
m99
This was good and bad. I enjoy listening to the various sounds, but each time he’d play a sound he’d interject his thoughts and it was annoying, to say the least. To his point about interdimensional beings, I would not be surprised. You know how the conspiracy people say if it’s in a ,movie, it’s real? And the tech is explored, being used, or rolling out. I always think of Chewbacca the Wookie. Who knows, maybe there’s a faction that was dropped off on the earth to learn about humans. That’s just silly talk on my part. Anyway, was disappointed Mr. Morehead wasn’t on this. Thanks Wes.
Mary D
As a former military linguist myself, I am painfully reminded of some of my geekier colleagues, sorry.
Joan P
Great talk. It makes me believe the Morehead tapes all the more. Absolutely fascinating.
theresa m
I’ve heard these vocalizations before either on this podcast or on Tony Merkel’s podcast, The Confessionals. It’s great to hear additional information on this episode. I had no idea the campers were calling the sasquatch down for food. This just adds additional layers to the story and I’m glad I caught this presentation. He did talk a lot and I guess that expected as he was lecturing. Normally all of that interruption would be annoying as hell but it was done as an explanation so not too bad to listen to. Thanks, Wes, for making it available for us to listen to.
David C
I would have liked to have heard more of the sounds and more of the analysis of them. Some info on the vocal range and volume vs humans would be nice. This was enriching and did leave me with more than I knew previously.