The Bloop: A Mysterious Sound from the Deep Ocean | NOAA SOSUS

What created this strange sound in Earth's Pacific Ocean? Pictured above is a visual representation of a loud and unusual sound, dubbed a Bloop, captured by deep sea microphones in 1997. In the above graph, time is shown on the horizontal axis, deep pitch is shown on the vertical axis, and brightness designates loudness. Although Bloops are some of the loudest sounds of any type ever recorded in Earth's oceans, their origin remains unknown. The Bloop sound was placed as occurring several times off the southern coast of South America and was audible 5,000 kilometers away. Although the sound has similarities to those vocalized by living organisms, not even a blue whale is large enough to croon this loud. The sounds point to the intriguing hypothesis that even larger life forms lurk in the unexplored darkness of Earth's deep oceans. A less imagination-inspiring possibility, however, is that the sounds resulted from some sort of iceberg calving. No further Bloops have been heard since 1997, although other loud and unexplained sounds have been recorded.

Source: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100427.html

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[dylankadlub]

This is the magnificent sound of the Great cthulhu. He is riseing from the deeps from the world of madness and will enslave us all! All hail the great cthulhu

[xXmikichan1562Xx]

@vulturedroid2 and thats just her wisper .__.

[NShomebase]

Iceberg calving off the coast of south America? I don't buy it.

[CrudeOctane]

It's Chuck Norris flushing his toilet.

[ShinyUmbreon13]

I'VE HAD IT WITH THIS MOTHERF**KING CTHULHU, IN THIS MOTHERF**KING OCEAN!!!

[lujavana]

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!!!!

[Wesleytron]

that's like fuckin... where the looney toons live man

[imstillbehindyou]

A genuine fear and interest of the unknown. It's pretty eerie and my mind conjures up nightmarish beasts.

[INMATE2468]

Release the kracken !!!!

[Invisibleorgana23]

Cthulhu?.... pfff... the ghostbusters already beat him, nope, is something else

[melhupby]

Cthulhu lives....

But if Cthulhu lives....then so do all the other horrors and atrocities in the necronomicon...we must prepare, the end is coming.