Soundless Music Creeps People Out
from the make-your-own-haunted-house dept
Some researchers studying the effect of "soundless music" (low frequency sounds that humans can't hear) on humans have found that it generally seems to creep people out, and may be responsible for the common spooky feeling people get in places that are regularly considered haunted. How long until scary movies start incorporating this soundless music into their soundtrack to make their movies seem extra scary?
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Mass Psychosis
Could troublemakers of the future induce mobs to greater heights of frenzy? Concrete pavement conducts low-frequency sounds well, if I'm not mistaken. Could pre-existing infrasounds account for some cases of bridge phobia?
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Re: Mass Psychosis
Wasn't there something about this in the movie "Attack of the killer tomatoes"? I don't know if the tomatoes would describe their frenzy as "religious" though.
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Deaf Supremacy
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See the patents
Not really 'news' per say. Just more conformation.
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