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Speaker 1: now quiet not exactly. Well, today we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: go into a subject that I kind of feel like
Speaker 1: maybe I stole out from under Devon because Devin likes
Speaker 1: to do the stories about weird noises. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: sort of it's been like working on that megalithic episode
Speaker 1: that may or may not happen, and I just got
Speaker 1: distracted and suddenly I was like, what are we doing
Speaker 1: this week? And I was like, oh, sky quakes. Steve, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she tried to stab him, but yeah, the drama of
Speaker 1: the show, ye stuff. Yeah, well, let's talk about skyquakes.
Speaker 1: Skyquakes are a weird phenomena. Depending on where you are
Speaker 1: in the States, in the continental United States or or
Speaker 1: maybe in other countries, you'll hear them named a number
Speaker 1: of different things up. You'll hear them called the Guns
Speaker 1: of Seneca, the Moodest Noises fog guns, Mr. Poofer's, the
Speaker 1: baronsl guns. These things have a lot of names and
Speaker 1: names very regional. Yeah, absolutely, um, but but they're all over.
Speaker 1: But you know, that kind of gives you an idea
Speaker 1: that what we're talking about isn't focused in any one region.
Speaker 1: It's this is a global phenomenon that's been going on
Speaker 1: for a long time. It has been going on for
Speaker 1: quite long, hundreds of years. Hundreds of years. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we have accounts from a long time ago, which we'll
Speaker 1: we'll actually get to here briefly. Uh So, let's do
Speaker 1: this so just to kind of give kind of the
Speaker 1: basic rundown of skyquakes, Typically they're reported in coastal areas
Speaker 1: and and that can be you know, on the coast
Speaker 1: of the ocean or a large lake or occasionally large
Speaker 1: rivers like the Danube or um the Mississippi things like that,
Speaker 1: and or the Ganges was the other one that I
Speaker 1: was thinking of. Usually, what happens the sky is clear.
Speaker 1: If there are clouds, they're not very big and specifically
Speaker 1: they're not thunderclouds. Yes, they're just nice white, poofy clouds
Speaker 1: against the blue sky out of nowhere, there will be
Speaker 1: an extremely loud boom. And these things, these noises are
Speaker 1: sometimes uh described as sounding like a cannon or artillery
Speaker 1: going off. And you know, it's not always just one.
Speaker 1: Sometimes there can be several in a row, one after
Speaker 1: the other. So it's not as if there's one event
Speaker 1: causing a single boom. We're talking in multiples. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: one that I have heard, the only one that I've
Speaker 1: actually heard recording of. It sounds like a big boom
Speaker 1: followed by somewhat three somewhat smaller booms and you know,
Speaker 1: almost like a machine gun kind of thing, kind of
Speaker 1: kind of just kind of a rhythm there. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: and as Devon was was briefly alluding to that, they've
Speaker 1: been around for a long time. We've known about them
Speaker 1: when the European settlers came to the northeast of the
Speaker 1: United States, the Iroquois evidently told them. The Indians of
Speaker 1: the area told them that they had heard the noises before,
Speaker 1: and they explained it as the Great Spirit continuing his
Speaker 1: work on shaping the earth, because evidently it was a
Speaker 1: work in progress. Well, well, it actually kind of is changing. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: so you know, I could try and describe these a lot.
Speaker 1: But what I figured it was the best thing to
Speaker 1: do was to take the recording that one of the
Speaker 1: recordings that I found online and play that for everybody
Speaker 1: so that you can kind of get an idea of
Speaker 1: what this sounds like. Now, the clip that we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna put in here, there are car alarms and
Speaker 1: there are dogs barking in the background, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try and ease that out as much as possible, but
Speaker 1: it will be very obvious when the sky quake happens,
Speaker 1: and it is extremely loud, to just be prepared for that.
Speaker 1: So there you go, very obvious. It does sound like
Speaker 1: cannon's it really, it doesn't sound like carl arms, it does.
Speaker 1: It sounds like artillery or thunder or a cannon or something,
Speaker 1: but it does sound like artillery to me. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: really weird. I have a theory, but I'm gonna wait
Speaker 1: till later, Oh, until we get into the theory section,
Speaker 1: because that's where we're at. Because literally listening to this
Speaker 1: the sky quake, that gives you a good idea of
Speaker 1: what it is, and there are so many places that
Speaker 1: they've happened that it's not worth going into everyone. It's
Speaker 1: much simpler just to kind of get into what the
Speaker 1: theories are of what is causing me. Yeah, well, I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell you what my theory. It's like. My
Speaker 1: theory is, is um a gigantic alien starship in the
Speaker 1: in the atmosphere and they teleported out basically to go
Speaker 1: into warp or whatever. They just vanished from the spot
Speaker 1: that they were in, which is immediately filled by air
Speaker 1: rushing in, creating a big kaboom a. Yeah, so that's
Speaker 1: that's one theory. Okay. Well, Joe let us off with
Speaker 1: the most fantastical theory. Yeah, no, he didn't, because actually
Speaker 1: the first theory is pretty fantastical. Yeah. This first theory
Speaker 1: says that these are government experiments with e m p
Speaker 1: s that are causing this noise. Okay, and now just quickly,
Speaker 1: how do they explain the fact that it's been going
Speaker 1: on for They don't. That's they don't. That's an issue
Speaker 1: with the thing. And we can just go ahead and
Speaker 1: say that if the government is has something going on
Speaker 1: like this, they would probably um propagate stories of it
Speaker 1: happening for a long time possibly or maybe or maybe
Speaker 1: they ripped the space time continuum and the noises are
Speaker 1: reflected back in time. That's just as crazy teleported back
Speaker 1: in time to plant stories. There you go, there you go. Well,
Speaker 1: here's here's the main thing that drives this e MP
Speaker 1: government conspiracy theory, because this really is kind of a
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory. It's all based around an event that is
Speaker 1: referred to as the Bell Island boom. Okay, not enough
Speaker 1: for clarity by e MP. You're talking about electromagnetic pulse. Yes,
Speaker 1: electromagnetic pulse. That is absolutely correct. Bell Island is located
Speaker 1: on the southeastern tip of Newfoundland. Yeah, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's right, not New Jersey. It's not New Jersey. No, no, okay,
Speaker 1: no Newfoundland is It's in Canada. It's in the Atlantic.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like one of their farthest islands to
Speaker 1: the east. It's it's it's not a small place. But
Speaker 1: what happens is April second night, there's a huge booming
Speaker 1: or some people, depending on the source, describe it as
Speaker 1: the sound of an explosion. And according to the reports,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of damage of the houses in the area,
Speaker 1: and I'm guessing this is from a concussive blast. Windows,
Speaker 1: broken windows, and evidently the power lines in the area
Speaker 1: were fried out, melted. You see it described as vaporized,
Speaker 1: and a couple of the things. Um. Now, the thing is,
Speaker 1: unlike most of the booms that we're going to talk about,
Speaker 1: there was a something physical left behind, and that was
Speaker 1: holes in the ground. There were two holes left in
Speaker 1: the ground and they were let's see here, they were
Speaker 1: three feet across and two ft deep, which doesn't really
Speaker 1: match up with a lot of the stuff that that
Speaker 1: we get from the these skyquakes, because they yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it, I think it is. But there's there's a
Speaker 1: lot of fantastical stuff that goes on with the story
Speaker 1: of Bell Island, but we're going to leave most of
Speaker 1: that behind because what we want to do is we
Speaker 1: want to focus on this this electromagna at a pulse theory.
Speaker 1: Parts according to the theory that this is some government
Speaker 1: body that's responsible for this, and a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: will point to, well, it was the Americans or it
Speaker 1: was the Russians. Um, you've got to kind of take
Speaker 1: a look at what happened at the time with this
Speaker 1: and why they think it's an electromagnetic pulse. One of
Speaker 1: the things is that with an e MP there's no radiation.
Speaker 1: Typically there's no touchdown point like these holes in the ground.
Speaker 1: But by radiation, you mean there's no like atomic radiation.
Speaker 1: You just set up an a box. There's no really
Speaker 1: high frequency radio. There's no through radiation. Yes, but but
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying that Hiroshima, Yeah, that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff that gets into your blood and kills you. Correct, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's where I'm getting at. And and so of course
Speaker 1: all the electronics is fried and hosed and you can't
Speaker 1: use your iPhone. Well, people say that this must have
Speaker 1: been an exp periament by a government body and one
Speaker 1: of the and again, this is a government body, whether
Speaker 1: they did it intentionally or not. So nobody says whether
Speaker 1: they were nefariously targeting Bell Island or just accidentally touchdown there.
Speaker 1: What adds a ton of fuel to the fire, though,
Speaker 1: is the fact that two sciences from the Los Alamos
Speaker 1: National Laboratory came to Bell Island to investigate. Now you might, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't write down their names, and that's
Speaker 1: my bad, but you might recognize the name Los Alamos
Speaker 1: National Laboratory because they're the ones who were involved in
Speaker 1: the development of the first A bomb. So people point
Speaker 1: to that as, oh, well, those guys at that terrible
Speaker 1: place that did this must have done that thirty some
Speaker 1: twenty some years later, some years later, working on the
Speaker 1: next kind of big leap in warfare. Maybe, I mean
Speaker 1: it's possible. I mean, the whole mp effect of atomic
Speaker 1: nuclear weapons was known back in those days, as far
Speaker 1: as building the really teeny little nuke that that could
Speaker 1: just that would just tune so that it would just
Speaker 1: happen more than just emit radiation, more so the explosive
Speaker 1: force and all that would Maybe they were working on
Speaker 1: something like that the time. I don't know, And I've
Speaker 1: also seen in some stuff that I've read, and this
Speaker 1: was more you know, fictional accountings. There is the fact
Speaker 1: that you can detonate a nuke several miles up and
Speaker 1: the radiation won't get won't hurt people like it would
Speaker 1: when it detonates on the ground, but the electromagnetic pulse
Speaker 1: will still affect electronics. Yeah, theoretically, there's the idea that
Speaker 1: they were testing something high in the atmosphere and something
Speaker 1: fell or you know, there's people who say it's some
Speaker 1: kind of lightning because in the reports of Belle Island
Speaker 1: they talk about some giant bold that it was quote
Speaker 1: unquote seen from space. I've never seen that picture, by
Speaker 1: the way. Yeah, I mean, I guess they think it's
Speaker 1: it's a fair theory to think that. You know, if
Speaker 1: they were going to test something like this, right, they
Speaker 1: would probably be testing it over open water instead of overland.
Speaker 1: You know. They accidentally detonated it close to land and
Speaker 1: too close down low, you know, so it actually did
Speaker 1: for a bunch of stuff. It landed with some debris.
Speaker 1: I guess. I'm I can kind of get behind. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: like it's not my favorite, but like I also can't
Speaker 1: talk my way into this. I can talk my way
Speaker 1: out of this way faster than I can talk myself
Speaker 1: into the problem with this as an explanation for sky
Speaker 1: quakes is it's only one incident and it is very new. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: but I am willing to say that it could be
Speaker 1: a good explanation for Belle Island specifically. Yeah, I could.
Speaker 1: I could see some credence there. Let's move to the
Speaker 1: next theory, though we've got meteors. This one's actually really
Speaker 1: pretty straightforward. In the idea is that people say that
Speaker 1: what they're hearing is the sound of the sonic boom
Speaker 1: caused by a meteor entering the atmosphere. Uh. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: it turns out that evidently, typically a meteor when it
Speaker 1: when it hits the atmosphere and it starts to burn up.
Speaker 1: This happens a hundred kilometers or about sixty miles above
Speaker 1: the Earth's surface. Because sound travels slower than light, people
Speaker 1: might see a shooting star and then minutes later hear
Speaker 1: the boom, and so they wouldn't recognize it. And if
Speaker 1: it's a day time, they're not gonna notice this bright
Speaker 1: spot in the sky. That kind of makes sense. Evidently
Speaker 1: it takes about from that distance up. It takes about
Speaker 1: five minutes for sound to reach from sixty miles up
Speaker 1: to the surface down to the surface of the Earth.
Speaker 1: So there's there's some scientific credence to that doesn't explain
Speaker 1: why it's only coastal regions, It doesn't. You're absolutely right,
Speaker 1: And this this occurrence of meteors making noise, This is
Speaker 1: what is evidently referred to as electrophonic meteors. In other words,
Speaker 1: a meteor that is heard, like the one that that
Speaker 1: exploded over Russia year two. Yeah, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: they come in and they basically heat up and then
Speaker 1: explode and disintegrate and create a huge boom. Well, and
Speaker 1: and that's the issue is that if it was meteors
Speaker 1: that we're hitting and exploding, even if they're not big ones,
Speaker 1: you would think that we would find some kind of
Speaker 1: debris on a more regular basis than we do unless
Speaker 1: they're hitting the water. That's but yeah, I think about
Speaker 1: it in the atmosphere and then it's just lots of
Speaker 1: little particles. Yeah. But the thing about it is is
Speaker 1: that large meteor is that explode like that make a
Speaker 1: big noise, they're not. They're kind of rare. Yeah. And also,
Speaker 1: like we have a lot of scientists, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: that somebody would be like, oh, hey, because they track
Speaker 1: it when things like hit the atmosphere. They tracked that stuff,
Speaker 1: so like it would be pretty unreasonable to think that, like,
Speaker 1: if this is such a widespread phenomenon that somebody wasn't like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know what I'll do is I'll look at all
Speaker 1: of the like pretty large meteors that are capable of
Speaker 1: making the sound and see if they like correlate or not,
Speaker 1: because that would have happened. Now. The one thing that
Speaker 1: I do think about that. You know. The issue that
Speaker 1: we had is, well, this happens kind of around coastal areas.
Speaker 1: There's one thing that you do have to remember, which
Speaker 1: is the air above the ocean tends to be cooler
Speaker 1: than the air above land. So it could be that
Speaker 1: they're hitting that cold air front and because they're so hot,
Speaker 1: they're hitting that blast of cold air and that might
Speaker 1: be causing them to actually shatter and explode rather than
Speaker 1: just to continue to burn up as they're going through
Speaker 1: warmer air. Does that make sense? Would be almost like
Speaker 1: a hitting a wall. I mean, I'm hearing what you're saying,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that science follows like this is
Speaker 1: just again I just suddenly I was like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know it is cold rare. That could be an explanation,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I don't think so. Yeah, next we have
Speaker 1: and this is what I really find funny. Yeah I do.
Speaker 1: Is it's gas venting or burping parts. It's earth farts.
Speaker 1: Whous I am twelve years old? Again? This this does
Speaker 1: actually kind of explain possibly why this is in coastal areas.
Speaker 1: What it is is the idea is that methane gas
Speaker 1: is trapped underneath a lake or underneath the ocean, and
Speaker 1: this is caused from the bat breakdown of organic materials,
Speaker 1: whether they be plants or animals, and then at some
Speaker 1: point they seep upward and they come up in a
Speaker 1: great explosion out of the water. But why would they
Speaker 1: explode versus just like bubbling up and leaking into the atmosh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's somebody's gotta be there to light a Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's the problem is that if it was gas,
Speaker 1: I mean, that would be a huge amount of gas
Speaker 1: to let's ignore the explosion for a session. That would
Speaker 1: be a huge amount of gas to cause such a
Speaker 1: giant bubble that it makes that concussive blast as it
Speaker 1: just breaks the surface of the water and then the
Speaker 1: water claps back into play. Yeah, you'd be seeing a
Speaker 1: lot more dead aquatic light. Okay. And if it is
Speaker 1: an explosion, okay, what's causing that explosion? And why haven't
Speaker 1: there been reports of flames of any kind round the
Speaker 1: skyquake issues? Yeah. The and the thing about it is
Speaker 1: it's like when methane or oil or whatever leaks up
Speaker 1: from the ocean bottom or wherever it just sort of seeps,
Speaker 1: it doesn't usually come up and you know it doesn't
Speaker 1: come out and outflowing. Now I'm trying really hard to
Speaker 1: not make all the fart joke. The next theory is
Speaker 1: actually really closely related to the methane gas which this
Speaker 1: actually is a theory that there's a rapid just oxygen,
Speaker 1: but a rapid air release from the collapse of underwater caves.
Speaker 1: And again this one kind of says, well, it's the
Speaker 1: noise from the cave collapsing in the air rushing out
Speaker 1: and all the debris underwater falling. But I personally, that's
Speaker 1: a lot a lot of caves collapsing underwater if they
Speaker 1: were the case. The thing about it is is caves
Speaker 1: tend to be pretty stable. They've been there for millions
Speaker 1: of years. Yeah, I know. That's why I feel if
Speaker 1: I'm I used to do a little caving, and if
Speaker 1: I'm in a natural limestone cave, I feel far safer
Speaker 1: than I than I would feel like if I were
Speaker 1: in a tunnel like the Highway tunnel example. Yea earthquake
Speaker 1: or something like that, you know, because I mean, this
Speaker 1: thing has been through all kinds of earthquakes. So also,
Speaker 1: nderwater caves typically don't have much air. Usually they're filling
Speaker 1: with water usually, I mean sometimes they have like a
Speaker 1: little bit of like air at the top or whatever.
Speaker 1: But and if it collapses, the air doesn't all get
Speaker 1: out at once, A lot of debris comes down in
Speaker 1: the air. The air it sort of fizzles out between
Speaker 1: all the debris. It's soda. So I think the perfect description, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: it would sound like soda. So the cave collapsing is
Speaker 1: a bad thing. Yeah. Yeah. The next Yeah, the next
Speaker 1: one that we have here actually really I kind of
Speaker 1: like this one. And this is that these sounds are
Speaker 1: caused by earthquakes, and there's there's a bit of science
Speaker 1: that we need to go into to help flush this out.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing words like S wave and P wave and yeah,
Speaker 1: and I actually abbreviated a bunch of big science words. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: earthquakes cause seismic waves, which are low frequency energy waves
Speaker 1: that travel through the surface of the Earth. Now, seismologists,
Speaker 1: those are guys who study earthquakes. No, they measure the
Speaker 1: seismic waves. Us that twice in one sentence, and they
Speaker 1: you know, that's how they determine how strong an earthquake is.
Speaker 1: So that's when you hear the rector scale is what
Speaker 1: we hear a lot to determine or to describe the
Speaker 1: strength of an earthquake. Okay, and most people are probably
Speaker 1: pretty familiar with that that description. Here's where it gets
Speaker 1: a little trickier is that the seismic waves are composed
Speaker 1: of actually two different kinds of waves. We've got a
Speaker 1: pea wave and an S wave, and the pea wave
Speaker 1: typically will be described it's the name is primary wave
Speaker 1: and S wave is secondary wave. The pea wave is faster,
Speaker 1: so it and it also is a compressional wave. Now,
Speaker 1: what that means is that it compresses and expands material
Speaker 1: in the same direction that it's moving. So if you
Speaker 1: think of a slinky that's laying on the floor sideways
Speaker 1: and you shook it, how it it the it travels
Speaker 1: back and forth horizontally. Yeah, So the P wave is
Speaker 1: the one that shakes your house inside to side and
Speaker 1: causes it to follow up its foundation. Uh, somewhat yes,
Speaker 1: somewhat yes. And then we've got the S wave and
Speaker 1: that's the slower of the two. So it's the one
Speaker 1: that shows up second, because they don't always show up
Speaker 1: at the same time. That's why you can have a
Speaker 1: difference in an earthquake and hit in stages and after shocks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the S wave is responsible for actually shaking the
Speaker 1: ground up and down as well as side to side
Speaker 1: in the opposite direction of the pea wave. So if
Speaker 1: the pea wave is going directly in front of you,
Speaker 1: the S wave will make the ground heave up and
Speaker 1: down and left and right of where you're you're viewing.
Speaker 1: I see, yeah, it's uh. I think the pe waves
Speaker 1: are what they measure often for like the pre shocks,
Speaker 1: because they can you can um you can send them
Speaker 1: ahead of time, because that's the one that's easier. You
Speaker 1: can hear it coming. Well, that's and that's actually a
Speaker 1: perfect segway because it turns out the pea wave is
Speaker 1: the one that is making and carrying a lot of
Speaker 1: the sound that has heard when earthquakes happen. So the
Speaker 1: theory goes that really low magnitude earthquakes, so we're talking
Speaker 1: on the Richter scale anywhere between one point oh to
Speaker 1: three point notes, so these are very small. You can't
Speaker 1: really feel them, and especially if they're really deep, by
Speaker 1: the time the wave reaches the surface of the earth,
Speaker 1: it's shaking power is gone. For the most part, but
Speaker 1: the sound is still traveling with it, and so that
Speaker 1: sound is released and that's what we hear. Is this
Speaker 1: the surface of the earth and basically acting like a
Speaker 1: gigantic speaker vibrating and creating sound waves, and it's Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's rock. So the sound travels through it, and some
Speaker 1: material obviously will allow the transmission of sound better than others,
Speaker 1: I believe, Correct me if I'm wrong here, guys. Coastal
Speaker 1: areas are usually rich in things like limestone. Is that correct?
Speaker 1: Which is that not correct? I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: if they're anymore rich than anywhere. Well, they are rich
Speaker 1: in tectonic plates. Well, but what I'm looking at is
Speaker 1: I'm looking at coastal areas usually are composed of the
Speaker 1: same general and this is a very general statement kind
Speaker 1: of rock compared to what you would find and say,
Speaker 1: the center of this country or continent. And I'm thinking
Speaker 1: that maybe part of this is that if it's a
Speaker 1: less dense rock, that sound can travel easier and not dissipate.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I might be screwing up that part
Speaker 1: of the science. But there is actually a recorded episode
Speaker 1: of a lot of booming sounds from low magnitude earthquakes
Speaker 1: in Spokane, Washington back in two thousand and one, and
Speaker 1: a series of booming sounds were heard, and they figured
Speaker 1: out that there were a series of very very small
Speaker 1: earthquakes that happened, and they were actually really close to
Speaker 1: the Earth's surface, so the sound came through, but because
Speaker 1: they were so weak, they didn't have a lot of
Speaker 1: power to shake things up, no pun intended. So that's
Speaker 1: that's an idea that it's it's some kind of seismic activity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it does make sense. Coastal regions are you know, they
Speaker 1: have more earthquakes often because that's where the that's where
Speaker 1: you know, the tectonic plates are like really coming together.
Speaker 1: It's like very often where like the shelves, that's where
Speaker 1: you get the like the upheaval and the underflows. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean, I guess it makes sense. But
Speaker 1: also on the same token, like they tracked that stuff
Speaker 1: pretty heavily. I mean, the fact that they could track
Speaker 1: that there were earthquakes in Spokane that caused those booms
Speaker 1: would make me think that if it was the cause
Speaker 1: of all of the other ones, that they would be
Speaker 1: able to track that there were also things there The
Speaker 1: problem is that those low magnitude earthquakes are really hard
Speaker 1: to pick out from the background noise of everything else
Speaker 1: that is going on in the surface of the earth.
Speaker 1: I mean, we make, as people a ton of noise.
Speaker 1: Think about all of a freeway and then try and
Speaker 1: think about when you're trying to get recordings out of
Speaker 1: the ground for earthquakes, and all you hear is cars
Speaker 1: driving by. We create tons of vibrations and we create
Speaker 1: tons of noise. Plus the ocean makes a ton of noise.
Speaker 1: So those low magnitude ones, they have a really hard
Speaker 1: time picking out the small ones from just all the
Speaker 1: other jumble of noise that's going on at the same time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, We've got another one here, which I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna discount this right away, and I don't mean
Speaker 1: to pooh pooh this. But the theory is military testing,
Speaker 1: and this is a lot like the Bell Island one.
Speaker 1: People are saying, well, the military is doing things and
Speaker 1: they're not telling us about it, and that's causing these noises.
Speaker 1: But my issue is again the longevity of the booms
Speaker 1: being recorded versus when we had the capability to make
Speaker 1: this kind of sound. It's like you know, I really
Speaker 1: think that these things are probably caused by a whole
Speaker 1: lot of different causes. Probably some of them are sonic booms,
Speaker 1: some of them are artillery or explosions of people mining dynamite,
Speaker 1: you know, using dynamite to blast out quarries. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: but I know that this can't be what caused this.
Speaker 1: When the original natives of this country, the US, heard
Speaker 1: this noise, I know, it was not the US military
Speaker 1: setting off some secret weapon. Now, and there were a
Speaker 1: bunch of white people over there doing some mining you
Speaker 1: know here, you know, So yeah, so military, Okay, it
Speaker 1: could account for a very very peeny percentage, but that's
Speaker 1: all I'll give it. Uh. Next, we have and this
Speaker 1: is actually a theory that really only comes up in
Speaker 1: one area, but that is the continental shelf falling off,
Speaker 1: which is actually something that Devon just touched on a
Speaker 1: little bit. But this only happens in the South Atlantic.
Speaker 1: This theory only comes from the South Atlantic region of
Speaker 1: the United States. And what it says, in its simplest form,
Speaker 1: is that we've got tectonic planes that are heaving over
Speaker 1: each other and diving under and that the continental shelf
Speaker 1: is essentially sloughing off and breaking off as it's you know,
Speaker 1: being pushed under. I don't like it. No, I don't
Speaker 1: like I mean anything that that would create that kind
Speaker 1: of clear noise would also be creating huge tsunamis and
Speaker 1: you know all of other stuff. And we're not saying
Speaker 1: some sonamis. The continental shelf isn't falling off in the
Speaker 1: little middle of Lake Michigan, for instance. Well, there might
Speaker 1: be like a little Michigan shelf that's falling off. That's
Speaker 1: probably the little Michigan shelfgan Okay. Theories, Yeah, absolutely, And
Speaker 1: I got to tell you this last, this one that
Speaker 1: we're about to go into, is probably my favorite theory,
Speaker 1: and that is that this is caused by meteorological events.
Speaker 1: That the mouthful of the word it is. Though the
Speaker 1: folks at home don't know what I said. It's seven
Speaker 1: times before I got right. Um, that's what happens when
Speaker 1: you're the editor. It really is. Here's what's going on.
Speaker 1: And this is based on what's called inversion or atmospheric inversion.
Speaker 1: Heat rises. We know that so as he rises, it
Speaker 1: warms the air, so the warm of the earth, surface
Speaker 1: of the earth is warmer, and as it goes up,
Speaker 1: it cools until we get to the top of the
Speaker 1: atmosphere out in the ocean. This would hold true unless
Speaker 1: we get an upwelling of cold water because currents cause
Speaker 1: up wells, and so they push tons and tons of
Speaker 1: cold water towards the surface, and that can cool that
Speaker 1: air in that region. So if you think about the
Speaker 1: way the air is, and let's just break this down
Speaker 1: into three layers from the surface of the earth. So
Speaker 1: we've got the bottom layer, the middle layer, which is
Speaker 1: slightly cooler, and the top layer that goes to the
Speaker 1: edge of our atmosphere. That's the coldest with me so far. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: if we get a cold air inversion because of that,
Speaker 1: that cold air pushes up as it comes inland, it
Speaker 1: kind of pushes itself a bit above and we get
Speaker 1: a cold warm cold So it's cold air on the bottom,
Speaker 1: warmer air in the middle, and then colder air on
Speaker 1: the top, and it it kind of creates a air shelf.
Speaker 1: What happens is sound travels typically farther in a cold environment.
Speaker 1: So if we have this happen and out at sea,
Speaker 1: several miles out at sea, there's a thunderstorm, people in
Speaker 1: the area go, wow, it's kind of a cold day.
Speaker 1: It's clear blue skuys, but it's chilly because they don't
Speaker 1: realize that, you know, let's say twenty miles up the
Speaker 1: air is actually warmer than where they're at, or it's
Speaker 1: warmer than it should be than. We've got a storm
Speaker 1: out at sea and it's a thunderstorm. That sound from
Speaker 1: the thunder is going to ricochet. Goes through a cold
Speaker 1: air tunnel, goes through a colder it hits the surface
Speaker 1: of the water, it bounces up, it hits that kind
Speaker 1: of shelf barrier between the coal low area and the
Speaker 1: warm middle area, and bounces back down to the earth.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like skipping that we talked about with
Speaker 1: Lost Boi Larry, with how radio frequencies skip it. It's
Speaker 1: actually a phenomenon that the experience with sonar and underseas
Speaker 1: you get because thermal layers, a thermal layer, which is
Speaker 1: a temperature gradient, sudden change, low frequency sounds can travel
Speaker 1: hundreds of miles. So yeah, and so that it bounces
Speaker 1: back and forth right and so that that thunder would
Speaker 1: bounce back and forth the sound of the thunder, and
Speaker 1: so it comes inland where it's a beautiful blue sky
Speaker 1: day and there's this sudden crack and raging noise, which,
Speaker 1: if you think about the clip that we played, kind
Speaker 1: of sounds like thunder. Yeah. I guess the only problem
Speaker 1: I would have with this is that it seems like
Speaker 1: the sound would kind of deteriorate over there. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's true or not. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it does or not. But lived in the Midwest
Speaker 1: for all a while, and they have some pretty rip
Speaker 1: roaring thunderstorms out there, and yeah, still, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know that I have ever heard thunder that is
Speaker 1: like that percussive that sets car alarms off like crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, every once in a while. But for
Speaker 1: it to be coming from like twenty miles away out
Speaker 1: sea or whatever and be traveling to still be that percussive,
Speaker 1: to be like that powerful seems counterintutive to me. And
Speaker 1: I don't totally you know, I'm not a scientist. I
Speaker 1: don't have the science behind it, but that it seems
Speaker 1: like at least the percussive quality of it would deteriorate
Speaker 1: a little bit that it wouldn't Beever, have you ever
Speaker 1: been in your house and the thunderstorm is directly above
Speaker 1: you and it's rattling the windows, or if you've been
Speaker 1: on a mountain so you're high up and a giant
Speaker 1: thunderclap goes off, it's freaking out and I don't but
Speaker 1: I don't know if it, you know, sets off car
Speaker 1: alarms like that or if it, uh, you know that
Speaker 1: was all the car alarms right, well, if you're if
Speaker 1: you're at grounds, are on the lightning storm where i've
Speaker 1: which I have been in, Uh yeah, the boom is
Speaker 1: tremendous and that was set off. But yeah, again from
Speaker 1: a distance to say it really is. I mean that
Speaker 1: video that was always we heard the car alarms going off.
Speaker 1: But the guy that was making the video maybe he
Speaker 1: his friends were throwing rocks in all the cars in
Speaker 1: the neighborhood. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know. The other thing
Speaker 1: is that when we listen to that video earlier and
Speaker 1: we keep talking about this like, I don't know that
Speaker 1: it would be that percussive. It's also I know it
Speaker 1: doesn't it really sound like thunder and it sounds that,
Speaker 1: you know. Interestingly, if you if you listen to the
Speaker 1: two blasts here, they're remarkably consistent. It's it's basically it's
Speaker 1: three quick explosions and you know, thunders usually like it's
Speaker 1: a little more random. Yeah, of course, you know this
Speaker 1: particular video, I mean it not it isn't necessarily one
Speaker 1: of these sky booms or whatever we're calling them sky booms.
Speaker 1: It would have sounded to me like it was three
Speaker 1: quick explosions. It sounded to be like u uh an
Speaker 1: M sixteen with a three round burst select or activated.
Speaker 1: It does sound like a gun, very specific. No, I mean,
Speaker 1: it could say, I mean, I've you know, I've I've
Speaker 1: lived in rural areas where they were setting off explosive
Speaker 1: and it does kind of sound like an explosion literally,
Speaker 1: like an explosive detonating. Yeah, so you know, that could
Speaker 1: be an explanation, and that would explain why the sound
Speaker 1: is so loud and so clear. But again the problem
Speaker 1: is why is it only in these areas and are
Speaker 1: they doing something off the coast with explosives that people
Speaker 1: don't realize there's explosions going on everywhere. But yeah, again,
Speaker 1: this one sounded to me like a three round burst
Speaker 1: from from them, and you know, and it's it's possible
Speaker 1: that the other ones sound different, but it's yeah, we've
Speaker 1: only got the I mean there's there's a number of
Speaker 1: videos out there that you can track down. I mean
Speaker 1: I only pulled one in and the problem is that
Speaker 1: they're all outside with you know, the wind and the
Speaker 1: dogs in the cars, and it's a cell phone or
Speaker 1: a video camera, so it's it's hard to get that
Speaker 1: noise very clear and exact. Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean
Speaker 1: that the netance. You know, most often when they happened,
Speaker 1: you just got a single boom, right, Not always there's
Speaker 1: multiples like what we've I've read about, you know, several
Speaker 1: little rows. So it's not as if it's like I
Speaker 1: said in the meeting, it's not always just one, can
Speaker 1: be several of them. Yeah, kind of lens creatings to
Speaker 1: the whole theory that it's a thunderstorm far away that
Speaker 1: sounds just being channeled. Yeah, and that's and then that's honestly,
Speaker 1: that's that's my favorite one. That The last theory that
Speaker 1: we've got I'm even worse on than the military testing
Speaker 1: is people say, well, it was a gun, like Joe
Speaker 1: just said it, Oh, somebody was shooting a gun, and
Speaker 1: guns long guns, big guns. Uh, there's still the problem
Speaker 1: of time. You haven't always been able to make a
Speaker 1: that loud of a concussive sound, So that to me
Speaker 1: seems too simple, and I just I kind of let
Speaker 1: it go right at you know, right after reading about Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know it is. I think that again, as I
Speaker 1: said earlier, I think it's these things probably come from
Speaker 1: a multiple set of sources. And I'm laking the I
Speaker 1: agree with you. I'm liking the whole idea of the
Speaker 1: sound channel being converted by the inversion layer, and you know,
Speaker 1: then it's being sort of funneled towards the coastline from
Speaker 1: a distant storm. That's and that probably is responsible for
Speaker 1: some of that. And I also agree that it's that,
Speaker 1: And I think part of it probably is, you know,
Speaker 1: the earthquake theory. There are small, minor earthquakes that channel
Speaker 1: that sound, and I think that's possibly some of it
Speaker 1: as well. Now, why it's only heard in coastal regions,
Speaker 1: it's not really explained very well in this But you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's the other one that I kind of I
Speaker 1: kind of give stock to. Yeah, and then there could
Speaker 1: be a couple of occasional random ones, could be medias,
Speaker 1: could be sonic booms. Yeah, you know, I think I
Speaker 1: think a nice mix of all of the theories is
Speaker 1: probably the best explanation for this one. Yeah, sweet, all right,
Speaker 1: well that is the theories that we've got. I think
Speaker 1: we've kind of all weighed enough on that. I don't
Speaker 1: think we need to beat that anymore. Uh. If you
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