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Does the Aztec death whistle make the creepiest sound in the world ?


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The sound the woman in the video produces using that whistle is as creepy as the whistling of an old fashioned kettle used for boiling water. Not.

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7 hours ago, Abramelin said:

The sound the woman in the video produces using that whistle is as creepy as the whistling of an old fashioned kettle used for boiling water. Not.

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Hi Rob

After listening to the whistles it reminded me of the sound my ex-wife made when she slammed the car door shut on her fingers during one of her anger snits.😂

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I have a couple of these

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Peruvian whistling bottles

Measurements were made of the frequency and sound pressure level from 73 ceramic whistling bottles blown by compressed air. The bottles represent nine pre‐Columbian civilizations which inhabited the north and central coasts and highlands of Peru during a 2000‐year time span from 500 B.C. to A. D. 1550. We have found that Peruvian whistling bottles group acoustically by culture. The bottles are generally regarded by anthropologists as utilitarian liquid containers with the whistle providing an amusing method of venting. We are suggesting an alternative interpretation of the bottles as having been specifically produced as whistles. We base this interpretation on the clustering of frequencies by individual culture, the fact that the frequencies fall in the region of the ear’s greatest sensitivity, and the high sound pressure levels produced by the bottles when blown orally.

https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article-abstract/62/2/449/752908/Peruvian-whistling-bottles

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creepy yes! the creepiest sound in the world.... no

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Researchers find Aztec 'death whistles' do weird things to the listeners' brains

Recent research of the sounds of ancient Aztec skull-shaped whistles revealed their profound psychoacoustic effects on modern listeners. For the first time, scientists have examined the impact of these disturbing whistles on the brains of modern European volunteers, including two separate experiments with different samples of participants. The study was published in the journal Communications Psychology.

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-829441

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18 minutes ago, Claira said:

Researchers find Aztec 'death whistles' do weird things to the listeners' brains

Recent research of the sounds of ancient Aztec skull-shaped whistles revealed their profound psychoacoustic effects on modern listeners. For the first time, scientists have examined the impact of these disturbing whistles on the brains of modern European volunteers, including two separate experiments with different samples of participants. The study was published in the journal Communications Psychology.

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-829441

Music affects emotional states, so why wouldn't it?

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5 minutes ago, Piney said:

Music affects emotional states, so why wouldn't it?

Yes, absolutely, so the fact that the whistles do the same is no surprise. But what's really interesting is how these whistles affect our brain. Not only do they put the auditory cortex on high alert, our brain has difficulty classifying the sounds they make. So of course our imaginations then run wild over the eerie and rather unnerving, noise.

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24 minutes ago, Claira said:

Yes, absolutely, so the fact that the whistles do the same is no surprise. But what's really interesting is how these whistles affect our brain. Not only do they put the auditory cortex on high alert, our brain has difficulty classifying the sounds they make. So of course our imaginations then run wild over the eerie and rather unnerving, noise.

That's how a "musical" Siberian-Jurchen-Korean-Algonquian and Siouian Shamanistic "high" works. It's not done with narcotics. It's done with drums, whistles and Asian/ Athapaskan "violins".

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Pre-Incan Rituals Used Conches ... But For What?

The "acoustic musicians" of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics help archaeologists unravel the mysteries of the pre-Incan Chavín temple complex -- and the ritual role given to the conch.

 

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Didn't sound creepy to me at all; sounded more like the screech of some bird of prey.

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14 hours ago, WVK said:

Pre-Incan Rituals Used Conches ... But For What?

The "acoustic musicians" of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics help archaeologists unravel the mysteries of the pre-Incan Chavín temple complex -- and the ritual role given to the conch.

 

A lot of tribes used conch horns up and down the East Coast of North America. 

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5 hours ago, Abramelin said:

How scary....

 

When you're walking through the Amazon jungle, and you hear thìs sound coming from some distance away:

Thàt is scary. And I've experienced it live, 1991, while walking behind my guide.

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