Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-16
Still Guessing
About Natures
Sound Effects

p fled by hearing strange sounds-the booming OF
U cannon when there the solemn peal
ing of bell when 1t known that the nearest bell
miles the claer of horses hoofs down deserted
road
Many these mysterious noises-a source of small
the superstitiously ncnedare due to meteoro
logical other natural There doubt certain
where science has hitherto failed to discover
satisfactory explanation like the strange phenomenon Of
the gums of Burrisauin In India
Burrisaul a station the Sunderbunds the marshy
delta of the Gauges River. covered with and lux
jungle of tropic vegetation Here in the rainy
season there is occasionally heard loud booming noise
the firing distant artillery. It from
south but follows the sound in that direction Its
apparent distance diminish Investigators have
suggested that it may be made by the heavy
laundering the shores of the Bay of
Bengal island But the place OF its origin has
identified has it been explained why the
should be heard much farther inland than
Sound sometimes travels distances beyond its usual
range An interesting is described by Sir Edmund
remembers his father telling of going to church
on Sunday" June 49, 1915 at Hythe in Kent.
arriving the church at eleven o'clock the elder Head
found his surprise the congregation outside listening
ntently faint sound of distant cannonade coming
from the 1t undoubtedly the booming of Napo
guns Waterloo the massed batteries of the French
having opened fire upon Weningtons thin red line at
precisely that hour.
The classic example a mysterious noise however,
recently socaled haunted house in Plymouth
while occupied during the Summer by the mother of the
Lord Lothian. The house already had sinister
reputation when she went to live in it.
Her bedroom just carpenters workshop,
occupied the ground floor The shop and the entire
house had been for the night and the
courageous lady had reading until
II quiet neghborhood and the house and town
still and dark Suddenly she heard noise from the lower
floor like saving wood
Presently other noises from the carpenters shop
until there regular concert of hammering, saving
planning the whole sounding like the work of dozen
workmen.
Being woman of great fortitude she resolved. if
possible to dispel the mystery. Taking lamp she tip
downstairs, the from the shop increasing
she approached Quickly flung open the but
sta uflV he uIaCeW n
tools and wood in their proper places just they had
left when the workmen went home
Having every part the shop satisfied
herself that there nobody there and that nobody could
get she assembled to her again beginning almost
doubt that she had really heard the noise when began
again and lasted half an hour Lord Lothian's mother
the night she called In friends
listen. They too, heard the unmistakabe noise of
carpenters work Yet to this day, the mystery has
been explained
In the Orinoco River region there
Of cracked granite bouders which pierces the
sky In certain places this mountain at sunrise sub
sounds be heard that resemble organ.
The superstous Indians attribute the musical sound to
wtehcraf but is heard only when person lies down
the rock with his close to the surface it is believed
that wind issuing and heated by the
rising produces current that gives off this
sound
Another oddity acoustics presented at Adams
Cathedral England. where the tick of a watch be
heard from end to very long biildiRg=pI-
Raymond Hutton, while carrying experiments heard
person reading distance hundred and forty
on Thames and during explorations the Arctic
regions Captain Wesley Foster of the L. S Navy found
he could with mile quarter distant
being the ice in Bowen Harbor The human voice
asserted has been heard ten miles off Gibraltar
The whispering gallery" ST. Paul's London and
the Capitol at Washington, famiara whisper be-
distinctly audible at the opposite side of the gallery
but not points between In the Cathedral Girgenti
Sicily whisper can be heard the whole length the
structure If whisperer places himself
the serncrcuar apse end story told that long
ago a confessional box inadvertently placed that
spot and the confession audible at
place near the of the church The authorities
FIRST knew Of this awkward fact when riot that grew