Saturday, October 9, 2010

The Bloop

The Bloop is the name given to an ultra-low frequency and extremely powerful underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) several times during 1997. The source of the sound remains unknown.
The sound, traced to somewhere around 50° S 100° W (a remote point in the south Pacific Ocean west of the southern tip of South America), was detected repeatedly by the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array, which uses U.S. Navy equipment originally designed to detect Soviet submarines. According to the NOAA description, 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." NOAA's system ruled out its origin as any known man-made sound, such as a submarine or bomb, or familiar geological sounds such as volcanoes or earthquakes. While the audio profile of the bloop does resemble that of a living creature, the system identified it as unknown because it was far too loud for that to have been the case: it was several times louder than the loudest known biological sound. Five other significant unexplained sounds have been named by NOAA: Julia, Train, Slowdown, Whistle, and Upsweep.
It is worth noting that the location of the Bloop is close to the coordinates of the great sunken city of R'lyeh, resting place of Cthulhu, as given by Lovecraft himself, at 47°9′S 126°43′W.

-makes you wonder, doesn't it?

34 comments:

  1. Awesome story! Dormant creatures maybe?

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  2. good job here!

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  3. Cool blog bro, keep up the good work im supporting you, dat copypasta =p

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  4. That is interesting. Makes you wonder don't it?

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  5. Creepy shit, I used to be real in to this type of paranormal stuff.

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  6. you've got a great point on this one

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  7. It's the Krakken!! SOMEONE HAS RELEASED IT!!!

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  8. awesome post, bro! waiting for MOAR

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  9. Hopefully he gets all angry and comes up!

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  10. probably just a coincidence. Modern day thinking it could probably be used to deter terrorists though I don think they are submersible yet :x

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  11. Hahaha, pretty funny with the Cthulu thing.

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  12. Will read some of these later. I have heard of most of them already though.

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  13. never was able to understand it...

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  14. awesome story, kinda spooky- thanks for sharing

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  15. HELL YEAH CREEPY PASTA BLOG. Thanks for making this.

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  16. Great read! Looking forward to reading your next post.

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  17. This will have me up all night, wondering.

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  18. I heard about the bloop a while ago and I listened to the audio file of both that and the slowdown. It's tough to speculate on what made those noises, but it couldn't have been anything that we've discovered thus far.

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