The Wilhelm Scream is a stock scream, somewhat comical, and easily recognizable. If you’ve watched Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Toy Story, Titanic, 22 Jump Street, or any of more than 400 other movies – you’ve heard the iconic scream. Here’s how it came to be.
Tag: sound
Listen up, people. Scientists create sound so loud, it instantly boils water and ruptures internal organs.
Bang your head! Scientists at Stanford University created a sound that measures a whopping 270 decibels. The sound was created underwater and is believed to be the limit of how loud a sound can be.
Apollo 10 recordings reveal astronauts reported hearing weird sounds (“out-space type music”) on the far side of moon – then discussed whether or not to tell NASA about it.
Apollo 10 orbited the moon two months before Neil Armstrong took his famous first step on the Moon. During a pass on the “dark side of the moon”, the side facing away from Earth and a zone of silence for radio communications between the spacecraft and Earth, the crew were baffled by a series of…
Weird groaning sound heard throughout Germany described as trumpets of God.
I’ve written several times about the mysterious sound phenomena occurring throughout the world where an inexplicable noise echoes through a region, sometimes lasting for several minutes, with no visible explanation as to the cause. Witnesses say the volume ranges from mild to deafening and describe the sound variously as a metallic-type groaning, the sound of…
Officials unable to explain strange 2-3 minute “roar” heard throughout southern Wisconsin.
A roaring sound heard throughout southern Wisconsin has anxious residents mystified and seeking answers from authorities. The sound, described as “louder than a jet airplane” and lasting for 2-3 minutes, was heard around 8:15 PM in several communities east of Milwaukee. One resident described the noise as “loud and constant” while another reported the noise…
Series of mysterious loud booms and explosions reported throughout UK, Belgium, France, Denmark, Australia, and eastern USA
Twitter lit up on November 29, 2014 as hundreds of witnesses reported hearing a sequence of mysterious and inexplicable loud bangs and booms that continued echoing throughout the United Kingdom for up to 30 minutes. Around the same time, reports of a similar strange noise began arriving from France, Denmark, Belgium, Australia and the eastern…
The Aztec Death Whistle and the sound of a thousand ghouls they make
For decades, archaeologists thought the ancient Aztec Death Whistles were nothing more than disturbing skull-shaped toys for little Aztec kids. They studied how they looked, how they were made, and where they were found. But nobody thought to blow into one. When they did, they found that the creepy clay objects made a spine-chilling noise…
The horrifying sound of an Aztec Death Whistle will make your skin crawl.
For decades, archaeologists thought the ancient Aztec Death Whistles were nothing more than disturbing skull-shaped toys for Aztec children. They studied how they looked, how they were made, and where they were found. But nobody thought to blow into one. When they did, they found that the disquietingly-decorated skull-shaped clay objects made a spine-chilling noise…
This woman can sing two musical notes at same time (which freaks us out a little bit).
Singer Anne-Maria Hefele can sing two notes at the same time and the result is nothing short of amazing (albeit a bit freaky).
The loudest sound on Earth occurred on August 27, 1883, during the Krakatoa volcano eruption – and the sound wave circled the Earth four times
On August 27, 1883, when a volcano erupted on the island of Krakatoa, the Earth emitted a sound louder than any sound in history. The sound was so loud, it burst the eardrums of sailors in a boat forty miles away and circled around the Earth four times before succumbing to silence. No louder sound…
