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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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(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...
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)
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?).
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.
You already forgot there are over 100,000 elephants in a thundershower?
- Sig
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)
And they would've gotten away for it if it wasn't for you meddling slashdotters.
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?
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"?