A Connecticut town has heard unexplained booms since the 1600s
Evidence
Off and on since at least the mid-1600s, a town in Connecticut has been suffering occasional unexplained sounds. The local Wangunk tribe took the noises very seriously, and warned the first European settlers about them. The settlers named the area Moodus for the Wangunk word Machemoodus, or place-of-noises. The Moodus Noises, which had entered a quiet phase since the late 1980s, sprang to life in March 2011. They come in different forms: from the pop of a cork to a noise like a sonic boom. — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 687
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Category: Factual Claims
- CANDY: A fun, lightly shareable nugget: a real New England place literally named ‘place of noises’ for centuries-old mystery boom sounds.
- SHARE: Great tidbit for anyone interested in unexplained sounds or acoustic anomalies — the Moodus noised, Wangunk lore, and 2011 resurgence.