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Haunted Houses Explained: Infrasound
anagama writes "For anyone who cringes whenever accosted by topics such as psychics, haunted houses, or any sort of new age drivel; for anyone who thinks James Randi is cool or has an active subscription to the Skeptical Inquirer - you're gonna love this story about infrasound. Here's a quote: "British scientists have shown in a controlled experiment that the extreme bass sound known as infrasound produces a range of bizarre effects in people including anxiety, extreme sorrow and chills -- supporting popular suggestions of a link between infrasound and strange sensations. ... Some scientists have suggested that this level of sound may be present at some allegedly haunted sites and so cause people to have odd sensations that they attribute to a ghost -- our findings support these ideas.""
Does infrasound include the "brown note", by chance? If so, then I think that they might be on to something. I'm always shitting myself...
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
Or......infrasound is how the ghosts are trying to communicate with us! All we have to do is record it and then speed up the tape! Maybe play it backwards too? You'd probably hear "Iiiii...am the ghost of Caldera.....bring me $699 or I shall not find eternal peeeaaaaace....."
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Bah, infrasound ? low bass rumble ? thats just the ghost farting......
(sigh) Oh Great - Just when I thought I had my Home Theater set up correctly, they invent Even Deeper Bass.
I guess I'll need to upgrade if I ever want to truly enjoy such movies as this Scary Movie
Visit CryptoGnome in his home.
Ah HA! That's how we got Blair to say the same drivel that Bush was spouting about Iraq's WMD...
Or, of course it could be ghosts USING infrasound to make people feel fear, revulsion, etc.
Clever ghosts.
-Styopa
Huh? And I thought UK and USA were friends... I guess you guys never really forgave the Brits.
That was exactly what I was thinking.
Lord and his colleagues, who produced infrasound with a seven meter (yard) pipe
Sounds like something do-able. Just don't go trying to making an MP3 of it.
Cogito ergo sum in Slashdot.
From the article:
"[...] It's wonderful to be able to examine the evidence," said Sarah Angliss, a composer and engineer who worked on the project.
Hmmm. Let me get this straight:
I think I am in love... Will you marry me, Sarah? I just hope my wife is not reading this...
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
like, making a bloody mess of your internal organs
Not a remarkable feat, since your internal organs ARE a bloody mess.
In the first controlled experiment of infrasound, Lord and Wiseman played four contemporary pieces of live music, including some laced with infrasound, at a London concert hall and asked the audience to describe their reactions to the music.
The audience did not know which pieces included infrasound but 22 percent reported more unusual experiences when it was present in the music.
Their unusual experiences included feeling uneasy or sorrowful, getting chills down the spine or nervous feelings of revulsion or fear.
Of perhaps it was their unfortunate decision to place the infrasound in the Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails songs vs the Kylie Minogue and TATU songs (or is the the other way around?).
emotions are a powerful force that lead people to all sorts of irrational conclusions.
Thank you, Mr. Spock.
Is that why darth vader had such an impact ?
... the real explanation for ghosts is that it was old Mr McCavity, the janitor. He knew about the abandoned gold mine under the house and used the ghost disguse to try to scare away the house's rightful owners. And he would have got away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids.
for anyone who thinks James Randi is cool or has an active subscription to the Skeptical Inquirer
I'm practically positive that James Randi has a subscription to the Skeptical Inquirer.
To ensure perfect aim, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target
You already forgot there are over 100,000 elephants in a thundershower?
- Sig
all you need is a 7 metre pipe
BIG FUCKING DIDGERIDOO!!!
"Information wants to be paid"
the people who reported it are dismissed as crackpots while the "skeptics" who ridiculed them come off as geniuses?
Exactly! Like that one inventor back in the 1400's who invented that one clock with a piece of glass with a starmap in it that can only be seen at one place at one time ever. He even invented computers and paper-eating solutions that activate when someone opens a briefcase and everything... Oh wait, that was in Alias. Nevermind...
"It's better to have a gun and not need it than need a gun and not have it." ~ Christian Slater, True Romance
"Prove to me X exists"
:o)
:o)
OK, how's this?
(Sorry, I agree with what you said, I just couldn't resist
I don't believe in the supernatural. Instead, I have decided to believe in the superdupernatural, the hypernatural, and the googlenatural.
And as for that voodoo doll, I've been looking for that thing! I mean, you draw one pentagram on the floor, then you go to look for your voodoo doll, and then you can't find it. I hate when that happens...
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
So what you're saying is, there is an HTML sound tag always playing infrasound in the background on /.?
I have an idea on how these weapons of mass destruction could be found in iraq.. just send all the Soldiers home and send 100 housewifes to iraq.. I am always loosing stuff and my mum / gfriend can always find them... :o)
Oh dear lord, don't tell me the scientologists were right?????
And they would've gotten away for it if it wasn't for you meddling slashdotters.
Extra-Low Frequency.
You know, wavelengths on the order of meters. Like a small fraction of the size of a joist, or A-frame.
If a standing wave that could be induced on something like that matches the resonance mode of a cavity of air (attic, exterior room), you could get powerful propogation effects.
Elves, on the other hand, are squishy.
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
Reminds me of the Monty Python funniest joke ever sketch where the English had to translate the joke into German one word by different researchers none of them would accidentally die.
Could someone please translate this post into English?
I guess this means if we ever get orders to evacuate a colony on, say, Omicron Ceti III, which has been found to have been bomdarded by Berthold Rays, but the colonists don't want to leave because of the drug-like affects of the indigenous "spore plants" we can use a subsonic transmitter to bring everyone back to their senses so that thay are as unhappy as the rest of us...
RTFA, all you need is a 7 metre pipe
Well, I guess I'll finally have to respond to some of that spam I've been getting.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
No, it think it's more like liquifaction of the contents of your bowels. Although I can imagine how this would suddenly make one's behavior erratic.
Taco Bell food is cheaper and more effective, and also neatly solves the distance problem.
-Frd
I am always loosing stuff and my mum / gfriend can always find them... :o)
That won't last forever, you know. Eventually you're going to lose your eyesight and there's no way your mom/girlfriend will be able to find it for you. Better break up with her while you can, Oedipus.
So..... ghosts have cool stereos with awesome bass?
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ELF resonance??? You mean like Executable and Linkable Format? I didn't know old houses ran Linux! Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
I'll do (smirk) the 4th (giggle) word (chuckle): the AHHHAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA...... (THUNK!)
Make sure to put the speaker directly underneath her chair.
"Verbing weirds language." -- Calvin