The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-22
STRANGE SOUNDS.
GUNS OF EtJRRiSAUl AND OTHeR
MYSTir"lNG PHENOMENA.

Earth Have Scared Many. |
OF strange sounds which probably de-
nend on meteorological or other natural !
causes. one of the most remarkable has
long been known as 1.-THE gun of Bur
%.isaul," but though its causes have long
oeen debated no accurate explanation
.ias been given, so far as we are awafe,
hat is thoroughly satisfactory. The
.sunderbunds-as the delta of the Ganges
m native dialect is c1lled-is covered
with a vast and luxuriant jungle OF
marshy vegetation. One Of the stations
is named Burrisaul. From here, in tine
rainy season. have long been heard mys-
FERROUS sounds resembling the discharge
Of artillery. and therefore popularity
named 1.-The guns of Burrisaul."
Only heard in the rainy season n
from the southwark. they have been
heard 100 miles off, yet on the coast IT.
self they appear still farther south. The
sounds resemble the booming of cannon.
Mussulman and HindoO superstitions
have each associated the sounds with
their religious traditions. Others have
thought the sounds were produced by
breaking of the sea On an island in the
bay of Bengal. But where: That some
atmospheric or meteorological cause is
the explanation is all that can be said
after hearing all arguments.
A much humber yet ancient instance
Of great local interest used to exist, we
believe, at Baddeley, in the New forest.
in the shape of a groaning tree. Whether
it still lives and groans we are uncer-
tain, but it is said to have uttered mys-
terious and lugubrious sounds at certain
times, probably dependent on wind or
weather. but full Of omen and import to
past generations. Indeed in the various
mysteries which, despite fin de siecie
a~cuteness, still surround us, eerie noises
have always played a most conspicuous
part, whether out Of doors or within
! anciept houses: INSTANCES Of the latter,
| indeed, abound. Some Of the most thrill
ing of inexplicable ghost stories turn
net on anything which has appalled, the
| eyes, but has distilled horror through
| the ears. It is, We believe. in East An
9lia that the shrieks heard from time to
time round certain pits have long beef.
q tradition in which n female phantom
has part.
The drummer of Tedworth's' phan,
tom sounds are SO well known FROM
Aubrey and more modern DISORDERS as
only to need allusion, but we may here
saw that, according to a communication
in a popular periodical some few years
back. similar sounds had recently, com
paratively speaking, been heard in the
locality, and by people OF most practical
disposition. These may be called phan
tom sounds. Returning again to those
which hover On the border line between
the natural and inexplicable. there is thu
wild strain as of weird music which has
been heard aboard ships when getting
within the circle of q Mozambique cy
clone.
One of the same klud, formerly mys
ferrous and thrilling enough, has bee:
resolved into q natural one. Early trav
elers through the primeval forests oi
Brazil-still among the few unexpiore,
places of the globe-were astonished ant
awed to zeal the distant %ona soun'
of a bell pealing from the depths OF TIA
woods, which certainly had no buildin:
and for ayes had known no human foot
step. Many a legend was woven rouA.
the TRANCE sound. Ultimately it wa
discovered to be the note of the bell bird
, There are, however, few mysteriou
sounds which have been as satisfactoril,
explained as this. For instance, there j
the legend of the sounds heard at time
on the plains of Marathon. the clash o
I weapons. the snorting of horses, tn
shouting Of the slayers and screechinl
I of the slain" which recall to melnor.
, the famous battle that lives SO mucl
more wildly than many modern n il
! the history of the world. OF cours
+. there are many instances of sound
! which, at first mysterious, become SO re
{ ally from the distance over which the,
{ Travelled, but these must be distinguishes
I from those which are our theme.
One Of the most int. esting example
rests on the authority of the late Sir Ed
mund Head, who remembered when
boy going to church on the famou
Waterloo Sunday" June IS, 1915, a
> Hythe, in Kent. His father and he, o.
arriving at the church at II q. m, foun
to their surprise the congregation out
: side listening intently to the faint SCUM
as of distant cannon coming from tn
east. Afterward it was ascertained tina
. Napoleon having, On the (for HIM VI
fortunate advice of his artillery officer'
who pleaded the state of the ground
waited till II to commence his fire, tn
first French gun was fred as the Nivellt
church clock struck II. Nor was Hyth
the only place where the French canno
We're heard in England.
Here. however. is fact dependent o
the by no means remarkable axiom tina
sound under certain conditions trave
enormous distances. But the sounds {
which we speak for the most part hay
puzzled all who have attempted to e,
plain them and lie indeed in that vagu
region which is ~inexplicable. Suchis tn
sound of the "Airlie drum" such are tn
!. wailing Of the banshee in some parts {
: Ireland.-New York Post.