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  • 2015-04-30 (xsd:date)
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  • The Sound of Apocalypse (en)
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  • On 10 April 2015, the web site Latin Post shared a video purportedly featuring strange apocalyptic sounds coming from the sky all around the world. That video comprises clips from various videos uploaded to YouTube between 2011 and 2013; and while it's impossible for us to offer a comprehensive explanation covering every clip seen in that video, we can provide a skeptical look about the alleged apocalyptic noises it references. Unusual and unexplained noises are recorded in various locations around the world from time to time. While the specific origins of all such sounds may not yet be known, most scientific research points to natural causes such as tidal waves, methane explosions, underground earthquakes, or shifting sand dunes as explanations for these aural phenomena: Although it is likely that strange apocalyptic booming sounds seemingly issuing from the sky have an earthly origin, USGS scientist David Hill said that it's also possible some of these noises originate from above: Is that what we're hearing in the video above — a distant earthquake or a passing meteor? Although some of the sounds captured in the video may have natural explanations, some of the other noises clearly originated from a common, artificial source: an iPhone. At the 4:45 mark in the above-displayed video, a clip purportedly taken in Alberta, Canada, begins to play and (like all of the other clips in this video) features a strange and seemingly unexplainable noise. But this section of the video is unique in having a definitive explanation: YouTube user DangleSnipeCelly08 admitted that the clip she uploaded on 14 January 2012 was a hoax: Several of the clips featured in the Latin Post video appear to share a similar audio source with the clip uploaded by DangleSnipeCelly08. Although it's possible that a recurring natural phenomenon has been captured in various locations around the world, it is more plausible that a single audio stream was duplicated and embedded into multiple video clips. Still, the original noise had to come from somewhere. So is this noise natural, or supernatural? The most likely answer is that the sound came from Hollywood: Even if the majority of clips in the video shared by Latin Post do not feature apocalyptic noises coming from the sky, the world is not void of unexplainable noises. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) still don't know where the whistle over the Pacific Ocean originates, researchers are still unsure of what causes a mysterious humming noise heard by many people in Britain, and the USGS still hasn't identified a cause for skyquakes booms. (en)
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