“Two types of mirid bug engage in roaring duels, possibly to establish dominance or attract females, but how they make the noise is unknown.” via New Scientist: They are rather diminutive to…
Sounds
Hear sounds from the past by visiting The Museum of Endangered Sounds. You can listen to things like the AOL Instant Messenger ping, old-time cash registers, and Space Invaders. From the site: The…
Hopefully the answer will be uncovered before residents’ grip on sanity reaches the breaking point. Via CBC News: A federally funded report on the Windsor Hum has been submitted to both the…
Getting pissed off and screaming at your computer still shown to have no effect. Via Scientific American: Using the microphones and speakers that come standard in many of today’s laptop computers and…
Yahoo! News on the continuing saga of the sound that defies explanation: It’s known as the Hum, a steady, droning sound that’s heard in places as disparate as Taos, N.M.; Bristol, England;…
Researchers are prepared to uncover the truth behind the ominous sound haunting a city, Michigan Radio reports: Researchers in Ontario will spend the coming months trying to get to the bottom of…
Disinfo pal Thad McKraken has written a run-down of this year’s top mind-bending albums, complete with samples for your enjoyment: Say what you will about 2012, but since consciousness is comprised of…
In the early 1970s, a group of hunters in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains captured sounds of an alleged encounter with Bigfoot. Now a professor and former Navy crypto-linguist says he has analyzed the strange audio recordings, and claims that they not only are legitimate, but reveal a primitive, grunt-based language. Decide for yourself — either way, the Sasquatch sounds on the tape are disturbing:
Two weeks ago, passersby noticed a haunting humming seemingly originating from the still-unfinished Freedom Tower. One possible explanation is that the the strong winds of Hurricane Sandy vibrated the metal beams at the top of the structure, turning them into musical instruments:
The senses are more intermingled than we realize — what we hear influences what we think we see, Live Science writes: Some people may actually see sounds, say researchers who found this…
Mass auditory hallucination? Military experiments in the Pacific Northwest? Hear a local’s alleged recording of the eerie, low tone here. Washington’s KING5 writes: Julie Schickling stood out on her porch in West…
How do we preserve the fabric of everyday life from other eras? The online Museum of Endangered Sounds is a marvelous emporium of aural preservation, simulating what being alive in the 1990s sounded…
Alastair Leithead profiles the fascinating work of Bernie Krause for BBC News:
A landscape may look healthy, but how does it sound, and what does that say about how its wildlife is doing?
It’s a question Bernie Krause has spent much of his life trying to answer. To do so, he’s recorded the sounds of thousands of places in far-flung corners of the world.
Dr. Bernie Krause: The Great Animal Orchestra from California Academy of Sciences and California Academy of Sciences on FORA.tv
He coined the word “biophany” to describe these recordings…
In a sense, we can all identify, as there is rarely a moment when we are not exposed to some sort of low-level aural drone. The Telegraph reports in ominous fashion: Now…
f you haven’t heard of this mystery, start here. The creepiest thing about this — is not the normal transitions — but the three interruptions in the course of twenty years (described here by Wikipedia). The first one occurred on Christmas Eve, 1997:
Ya — UVB-76. 18008. BROMAL: Boris, Roman, Olga, Mikhail, Anna, Larisa. 742, 799, 14.
Here is how it has normally sounded on the shortwave radio station, frequency 4625 kHz. If you still can hear it, please let us know: