A Connecticut town has produced unexplained booming sounds for over 350 years.

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

Categorization

• QUESTION: The range of sounds (cork-pop to sonic boom) is odd — what acoustic mechanism produces such a wide spectrum?
• SEED: The ‘place-of-noises’ would make a strong opening hook for an article on infrasound and unexplained boom phenomena.