In the 1990’s, the Sound Surveillance System—a chain of underwater listening posts in the Atlantic Ocean—recorded a number of mysterious sounds of unknown origin. The most popular of which, is nicknamed “The Bloop”. When sped up, it sounds like a whale call, and yet the Bloop is far louder than the loudest animal in the ocean—the blue whale. In 1997, the Bloop was detected by the underwater hydrophone array, from sensors up to 5,000 kilometres apart, deep in the waters off the West coast of Chile.
If no known marine beast is capable of producing the Bloop—not even the giant squid, krakken, leviathan, or Nessy—then it’s gotta be Cthulhu. To me, it sounds like any other slightly tonal bubble playing from the brine, but NOAA experts have been unable to match the Bloop to the spectogram of any ocean sound—natural, biological, or industrial. Whatever it is, the Bloop is a D Tone, or at least this sample is. For some reason, all of the NOAA samples are sped up 16 times. Here’s what it sounds like normally (Watch your woofers!).
Another unknown ocean sound is nicknamed “The Train”, recorded on March 5, 1997 on the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array. This is the most tonal of the unknown NOAA sounds. It mostly warbles around Concert A—440 hz.
Every once in a while, the Train bends up a half-tone or a whole-tone, from G to A, or G to G# to A. Remember though, that this sound, like the others, has been sped up 16 times.
“Julia” is yet another mysterious underwater sound, recorded on March 1, 1999 on the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array. It sounds like a Cthulhu voice, saying the name “Julia”.
So let’s review this all: In the 1990’s, mysterious sounds are being recorded in our oceans. Scientists suggest that they belong to an animal, but far larger and louder than any known animal. Half a century earlier, horror writer H.P. Lovecraft writes of a sea monster living in the exact latitude of the Bloop—a squid-faced alien named Cthulhu.
Secret sounds under the ocean?
Reality, really? Is anyone buying this shit anymore?
