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Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Have you ever entered a place that doesn't feel quite right? While a supernatural explanation may seem more exciting, there could be another reason for that chill down your spine. It's called infrasound, and a new study reveals how this phenomenon has a very real impact on human stress levels and irritability -- at least in the short-term.

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... "Consider visiting a supposedly haunted building. Your mood shifts, you feel agitated, but you can't see or hear anything unusual," says the study's senior author Rodney Schmaltz, a psychologist at MacEwan University in Canada.

"In an old building, there is a good chance that infrasound is present, particularly in basements where aging pipes and ventilation systems produce low-frequency vibrations," Schmaltz continues.

"If you were told the building was haunted, you might attribute that agitation to something supernatural. In reality, you may simply have been exposed to infrasound."

Any sounds below the threshold at which humans can consciously perceive them -- around 20 hertz or lower -- are considered infrasound. These sounds have a remarkable ability to travel past obstacles without dissipating, so their influence is wide.

They can be generated by old pipes and machinery -- hence the haunted building link -- but also emanate from natural sources like storms, earthquakes, volcanoes, and aurorae. Some animals even incorporate infrasound into their communication and navigation. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-28 08:44 PM | Reply

OK, when I listen to Saint Saens Symphony #3 (Organ Symphony) and ~experience~ via my speakers the 16Hz organ notes, I don't see "hidden phenomenon" in my house.

What am I missing?


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-28 08:47 PM | Reply

Because you're listening to music and those tones are part of the music, probably.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-28 08:53 PM | Reply

@#3 ... Because you're listening to music ...

Yeah, that's where I see a weakness in this study.

Another place I see a weakness occurs when cameras record ~things~ occurring that are not readily explainable.

Back in the late 70's my college friend and I were renting a house. Our bedrooms allowed us to look into the hallway.

One morning morning when we woke up for breakfast, we both were unusually quiet. After a while he asked me... did you see anything last night?

I told him, yes. I saw three or four white figures walking down the hallway outside my bedroom. He replied, that he saw the same thing.

As it happened, the neighbors told me that construction workers died while building the house.

There were no infrasonic tones involved during that occurrence.


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-28 09:04 PM | Reply

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