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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Strange Sounds Heard Around the World - HOAX

You may have seen videos throughout the internet with recordings of weird noises and sounds that have been "heard around the world". Upon first seeing these videos, they seem very real as there are many of them and the sounds are quite strange and convincing. The reactions of the posters also lead to this effect.

There have been numerous claims on the origins of the sounds. People have claimed they are anything from a pole shift to aliens, to the 7 Trumpets of the Apocalypse.

 After watching a lot of them and some investigation, however, I am almost certain that they are a hoax.

I noticed that in the videos, the sound seemed to be almost identical (in all of them) as well as other small indications that it may be a hoax (no one actually reported hearing any sounds to police anywhere around the world, noises seemed similar to some from movies, etc.).

Today I found a video on Youtube from user "V00D00SIXXX" that gives strong evidence that the noises are indeed a hoax.

He was observant enough to notice that in the first strange noises video/recording, no one in the background seemed to notice the sound. In fact, he pointed out that the only person who noticed the sounds, which were supposedly coming from the sky some distance in front of the camera, was a woman who looked toward the camera rather than the supposed source of the sound whenever she heard it (indicating that the sound was coming from behind the camera - i.e. a speaker or other audio device set by the user who posted the video).

He also noticed that 2 sounds heard at different times in the video, a squeak and a bird call, are present in many of the other weird noises videos that were posted after this one as other posters (people continuing the hoax) simply put the original audio over their footage. He also noticed that sound effects from War of the Worlds are present in many of the videos. The video with this convincing evidence can be seen below.


Kudos to V00D00SIXXX for the video and for debunking this hoax.

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