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Videos - your compendium for the strange, the eldritch - and the otherwise explainable.
What’s going on guys - as per usual, I’ll be your horror host Jack Finch - as we fire
up the shortwave ham radio, scan the vicinity for some weird wavelengths - and take a look
at the Top 5 Scary Sounds That Will Keep You Up At Night.
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Now there’s a reason why horror films have such terrifyingly fantastic musical scores.
The ear is an intrinsic part of how we perceive our surrounding environment, and often - the
first instinctual reaction to fear.
Just like those iconic notes in the opening moments of Halloween, written and composed
by John Carpenter Himself - and the syncopated rhythm of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells
- sometimes, nothing’s more scary than a strange, obscure sound.
Well let’s take a look.
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Kicking off at Number 5 - Operation Wandering Soul
A sound so terrifying that it was weaponized, in an effort to psychologically deter enemy
forces.
Also known as Ghost Tape Number 10 - Operation Wandering Soul was an audio mix that the US
Military used for psychological operations during the Vietnam War that raged between
1955 and 1975 - against the North Vietnamese Forces.
The mix, that was played via loudspeakers throughout rural areas, was attached to helicopters,
PCF boats - or installed by infiltrating infantry known as loudspeaker teams, who would penetrate
known enemy areas and install the audio devices to be played at night deep within the jungle.
Ghost Tape Number 10 played deeply on the cultural belief of ancestor worship - exploiting
the engrained idea of spirits and the afterlife.
It made the communist Viet Cong forces think about where their soul would end up, in the
likely event of them being killed so far from home - and exploited the fear of their own
soul being forever trapped in the jungle.
Next up at Number 4 - Station UVB-76
Ehh .. I’m not gonna lie, guys.
This one’s pretty weird.
And not for the sake of being paranormal, but more for the sake of this is still happening
- and no one’s really sure why.
Let me introduce you to Station UVB-76 - AKA The Buzzer - the nickname given to a shortwave
radio station that constantly broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kilohertz - playing a short,
monotonous buzz tone - at a rate of 25 tones per minute - 24 hours a day.
It’s like a weird, blinking light - in the middle of nowhere, that no one has any idea
what it does.
The strangest thing - though - is that sometimes, the buzzer’s signal is interrupted, and
a voice transmission in Russian takes place.
It regularly recants strange, coded messages - usually alphabetical names in Russian - Mikhail,
Olga, Nikolai.
And - well, no one really knows what it means.
Some theories believe that it’s what is commonly known as a Dead Hand - a protocol
function that triggers a nuclear retaliatory response if Russia were hit by a nuclear attack.
Other’s believe it’s function is of the Russian military - its purpose to transmit
coded messages for the coming and goings of international operations.
Whatever it is - it’s weird - and it’s pretty scary.
Coming in now at Number 3 - Nuclear Sirens.
You might not think it - but for me, the scariest sounds are those that have real world implications.
Being born in the 90s - I was lucky enough not to have to live with the impending panic
of the Cold War - and the constant threat of mutually assured destruction, between the
United States and Russia and their global nuclear arms race.
Particularly through the late 50s and 60s, people lived with an actual health and safety
protocol for an atomic bomb blast.
Children at schools would practice safety drills - like you would for a tornado siren
- but, well, there wasn’t really any safety procedure that would defend you from a hydrogen
bomb.
It was all a sham - really.
So imagine hearing that sound - knowing that imminently you’d likely be vaporized - and
there was nothing at all you could do about it.
That’s real fear.
Swinging in at Number 2 - Bloop.
I mean - yeah.
Nothing scary about something called Bloop - right?
In fact, it wouldn’t be amiss in a Pixar movie - cute and cuddly, and potentially a
Lovecraftian outer god at the bottom of the Pacific ocean.
Sorry - what?
Yeah - the sound commonly referred to as Bloop - is the big kahuna in the world of scary,
unexplained sounds.
Back in 1997 - an extremely powerful, ultra-low frequency sound was detected at various listening
stations - thousands of miles apart - across the entire planet, originating from a source
somewhere west of the southern tip of South America.
The sound barely lasted a minute, and hasn’t been heard since.
There are several theories for it - the most common being a massive ice quake in the South
Pole - but, scientists also haven’t totally ruled out that it originated from an organic
being.
If it did - then the creature would have had to have been larger than a blue whale.
Much larger, in fact - and if it is organic, and it’s hiding in the deep depths of the
ocean - then it’s safe to say that I’m pretty concerned.
And finally - at our Number 1 spot - Aztec Death Whistle.
And - while it’s absolutely terrifying - this is like, my favourite sound of all time.
It’s so metal - you won’t even believe.
Also, I love the guy in this video - check it out.
Yeah.
I know - right?
In 1999 - a 20-year-old sacrificial victim was discovered by archaeologists, clutching
one of these death whistles in his hands.
His was found in the temple to an Aztec God of Wind - suggesting to some scholars that
these things were used ceremoniously - to invoke the wrath of the Wind God.
Although - it’s also safe to say that these things were used to intimidate enemy soldiers
- I mean, just listen to it.
Also - imagine 100 Aztec soldiers, racing through the forest - blowing these things.
Well, don’t even imagine - why don’t you take a listen.
Now that’s what I call fear.
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