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Off the coast of South America in 1997, hydrophones originally set up by the US to detect incoming Soviet Submarines picked up a sound. That sound seemed to be from a live animal, but were that the case said animal would have been larger than a blue whale.

Nobody yet knows what caused it – but we’ve got the noise for your personal listening pleasure right here…

The Bloop is a sound picked up underwater in 1997, an unexplained sound. The best scientific minds out there still don’t know what it is. There’s no doubt been talk of it being some sort of a submersible alien craft skimming the bottom side of the various ocean’s waters, but the few clues its given seem to indicate its an animal. At least according to CNN anyway:

“While [the sound] bears the varying frequency hallmark of marine animals, it is far more powerful than the calls made by any creature known on Earth, Britain’s New Scientist reported on Thursday. It is too big for a whale and one theory is that it is a deep sea monster, possibly a many-tentacled giant squid.”

A mega-squid has been quickly discounted as the sound-source because those animals don’t have the body parts to make these types of noises. The way they can tell it’s too big to be a whale is by the magnitude of the sound that emanated from it. Another curious factor about it is the sound was recorded on multiple occasions in areas geographically close to each other. A website called Disclose.tv has a spattering of additional details:

“The sound, traced to somewhere around 50° S 100° W (South American southwest coast), was detected repeatedly by the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array, which uses U.S. Navy equipment originally designed to detect Soviet submarines… it “rises rapidly in frequency over about one minute and was of sufficient amplitude to be heard on multiple sensors, at a range of over 5,000 km.”…it matches the audio profile of a living creature but there is no known animal that could have produced the sound. If it is an animal, it would have to be, reportedly, much larger than even a Blue Whale, the largest known animal on the earth.”

At the end of the day – it’s just a sound. Had the sound’s maker been caught on video then this may not be such a mystery. At the same time – if it had been caught on video – and the creature’s appearance was just too much to bear, maybe mankind would prefer to keep itself landlocked for the rest of our existence.

No more fish sandwiches.

Lets leave this mystery be.

Here’s the Bloop:

Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, myths, ancient artifacts, religion, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable.

The Taos Hum is a low-pitched mechanical buzzing sound often heard in Taos, New Mexico. What makes this strange phenomena worth mentioning is that nobody knows where thew sound comes from. Hundreds if not thousands of people have gone out looking for the source, but it’s never been found.

There are lots of theories as to what causes the noise – some say it’s the electronic hum of secret underground bases, while others believe it to have a geological cause, like magma bubbling under a thinner-than-usual earth crust. Still others believe it’s all got something to do with spaceships trapped underground or something.

So far, nobody’s ever been able to prove a thing.

Let’s kick things off with a quote – this one’s off of Even Tide Productions (.com), who crowned the mysterious humming sound atop their ten most curious unexplained phenomena list:

“The hum, a low-pitched sound almost “artificial” in nature, has driven researchers mad for years.  It’s driven the locals batty as well, to the point where they banded together in 1993 to petition Congress and ask for government assistance is locating the source of the disturbance…to no avail.

“Speculation prevails as to the nature of the noise, and theories range from secret military weapons testing, to mass hysteria, to the mere supernatural.  Though the acoustic phenomenon is not isolated to the small New Mexico town, with reports of similar low frequency hums having been reported in other parts of the world, including Great Britain, the Taos version has certainly garnered more attention in recent years.  And since the hum has gone undetected by microphones, VLF antennas, and other recording attempts, it tops our list as the most peculiar of unsolved mysteries.”

An interesting thing about Taos, New Mexico – it looks like it’s smack next to Dulce. You remember Dulce – we talked about it months ago. It’s got that alleged underground, alien friendly government base where some say human genomes are being melded with that of animals. The end results are intelligent mutants kept on the inside of a deadbolt.

Dulce is also the place where Phil Schneider claims he was one of like two human survivors who escaped a huge underground alien battle. Then he went on to commit suicide in his apartment after telling people, as his ex-wife put it:

“Philip always told his friends and relatives, that if he ever “committed suicide” you would know that he had been murdered.”

But we totally digress – back to the hum. It’s a sound that reminds people of distant thunder or an idling diesel engine. Not everyone can hear it, which is really enough to make you wonder if it’s an Emperor’s New Clothes types thing.

Down below we’ve posted a clip from YouTube wherein you can definitely hear something faint. It’s really not remarkable except for the fact that nobody knows where it’s coming from. On ThomastonExpress.com, a New Mexico resident, Dave Drinnan, complains about the sound. At the time of the writing he’d been hearing it in his home for only eight years straight, although he’s been in the house for over 21 years:

“It sounds like there is a lawn mower or a gas-powered generator running somewhere nearby. It runs 24/7. Sometimes it’s more noticeable than others, but I’m pretty sure it’s always there…It never falters or changes. It could be man-made, but it seems unlikely that equipment would be running all of the time.”

And the New Mexican hum is not alone – there’s one in New Zealand and the UK as well. Then you have Northern Europe where the exact same thing is noted by the locals. In all these situations – there is no apparent reason for the noise.

Could that many people be imagining it? Is there a place that would have machinery running that constantly? Could anybody reading this look into at least making the thing more melodic? Maybe program the Beatles‘ White Album into it or something.

At least then it’d be a more enjoyable phenomenon.