The sounds of Hell?

[Ivonia]

DISCLAIMER/WARNING: This has been proven to be false, but it's still kind of creepy to listen to, so be careful if you're easily spooked.

I found this on the internet, and thought that it might help inspire some of you for your horror writing. Apparently someone dug a really deep hole (like 9 miles, or 14.4 kilometers) in Siberia and when they threw a recorder down there, this is the sounds they got:

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/audio/sounds_of_hell.mp3

Here's the snopes urban legend look at this (which shows that it's false):

http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.htm

Although it's been proven to be false, I still think it's kind of cool to listen too if you're looking for something to inspire your writings. It's kind of creepy because I can almost make out what sounds like a person screaming, probably in agony and pain.

[Fractured_Chaos]

Yup, I've heard it, and thought it was pretty creepy, albeit nifty, too.

Here's one for you, that's even creepier.

It's a recording of an exorcism in a Russian Orthodox church. The "possessed" is supposedly a 16 y/o girl.

Now, I have no idea if it's authentic, or not. I tend to take the side of the skeptic generally. But even if it isn't authentic, it's still pretty creepy (especially at 3:30 in the morning with headphones on)

The chanting in the background, the gutteral sounds coming from the "girl", the screaming, and the ameturish recording all add to the creepy-factor, so even if it isn't real, it's pretty damn disturbing, and *ahem* good "mood music" for a later scene in my WIP.

It requires Windows Media Player, and if you're easily freaked out by this kind of thing, I wouldn't advise listening. Normally, I'm not easily freaked with this stuff, but I'll admit I glanced over my shoulders a couple of times.

But then, my favorite rides were always the spook-houses at the carnivals.
Here's the article about the recording (http://paranormal.about.com/od/demonsandexorcism/a/aa031405.htm)

And here's the link to the actual recording (http://paranormal.about.com/library/bl_exorcism_recording.htm)

[Liam Jackson]

I listened to the Russian exorcism right after drgnlvr posted the link the first time. Have to admit, it's pretty damned spooky.

[Rhush]

:scared: Man. I dont freak easy either...but that exorcism was freaking scary! It doesnt hurt that I completely believe in that stuff though. Yick.

[Rhush]

Oh...and the hell thing was pretty cool too. Ive got both of them for good keeping. Thanks guys!

[Eric Summers]

This thread reminded me of one of the first HP Lovecraft stories I ever encountered, and after having devoured all of his other works, "The Statement of Randolph Carter" still ranks as one of my favorites.

If you've never read it, stop by your library, find and read it. The story itself is quite short, so you can just plop down in one of the library chairs and read it in probably less than 10 minutes. It can be found in "The Dream Cycle of Unknown Kadath" compilation. That whole book is really good, and all the stories tie together, but "The Statement of Randolph Carter" can stand by itself.

- Eric

[Fractured_Chaos]

I listened to the Russian exorcism right after drgnlvr posted the link the first time. Have to admit, it's pretty damned spooky.

I did post that link before, didn't I?

Oops? :o

[preyer]

that tears it! i'm a believer! i better get my soul in shape if i don't want to go to the centre of the earth! have you ever actually *smelled* sulphur? it's awful! can't imagine what brimstone must be like.

apparently no one has ever heard the two cats outside my window late at night. now, *that's* truly demonic sounding.

if you play these backwards, you can hear beatles' songs. cool.

all of which begs the question: why do i even pay for the internet? lol. oh, yeah, the porn.

funny how these things happen in easily accessible places like SIBERIA, eh? lol. wait and i guarantee that the first moon colony will record the sounds of heaven.

[preyer]

my favourite was the russian exorcism. under 'related articles' you'll find, 'russian exorcism -- part 2 -- the video!'

so, now i have to offer my free online exorcism course for only $12.99 american (no euros, please). simply put your hands on the monitor screen and your forehead between your hands and send me a mental instant message and i'll get right on that. next, start typing with either your boobs or your wanker and in the jumbled mess, i'll decipher what the daemon inside is trying to say.

what's truly terrible about this nonsense is people like my paranoid schizophrenic friend buy into these 'experts' to the point where he's now got an unhealthy devotion to all things christian at the expense of taking care of himself and ignoring many of our laws. so, yeah, thanks, there, jerkasses, for making a sad situation much, much worse to hawk your crappy books.

personally, i found the links entertaining. what i find despicable is using these bogus sound bits to con people into a false belief based on fear and/or preying on those with mental issues to sell something. some people find no qualm with getting anyone to believe what they do by any means possible, that if you can't convince someone to use their faith to love God or gawds, then you might be able to scare them away from hell.

don't tell 'em they'd be more effective throwing rocks through windows. :)

[LloydBrown]

Another bait-and-switch thread. I thought somebody was offering Britney Spears mp3s.

[sthrnwriter]

I'm not one to get spook to easily but I have to say I couldn't listen to the Russian exorcism all the way. Too creepy for me.

[preyer]

i thought they were good efforts, but i was serious about the cat thing being truly a bone-chilling sound. the reason cats are so terrifying is because they sound exactly like a baby.

i love it when they say, 'the possessed made sounds that no human could make.' really? then how did they make them? oh, yeah, i forgot: when you're possessed, the first thing the daemon does is alter the physical construction of your vocal cords to allow for different tones/pitch/timbre/etc. so that its guttural sounds (which, remember, are impossible to make otherwise, right?) are more frightening, because, you know, it's entire reason for rising from hell is to take control of underpriveleged young women in remote regions for the most part and scare people. then alter their vocal capabilities, figuring, i figure, they're going to feel the need to speak like a daemon at some point for some reason. and bear in mind all hell spawn are bass. you'll never find a castrato daemon-- i mean, who'd be afraid if michael jackson was possessed? who'd notice the difference? except in the voice, that is.

the more 'reputable' priets tells you possession is a form of mental illness... but there's also a daemon involved. it's a dump truck load of BS right on your head, one which my buddy subscribes to because, well, he's crazy and has little choice. what the politician/religico here does is tries to appeal to the more reasoning people by admitting there's a mental issue going on (though they're usually careful not to go too far with their cedes else find themselves using psychology terms and would eventually have to admit it's not a daemon but, for example, a chemical imbalance), and at the same time satisfying those who 'know' it's a deamon. i have no doubt those 'possessed' think the forces of hell are inside them.

unfortunately, organized religion is one of the biggest perpetuators of myth, fantasy and bald-face lies. no, i don't mean in a biblical sense, i mean in a more mundane way. back in the day, every church had a relic (a relic being a piece of a body, like a skull, tooth, finger or toe). every third church boasted it had the relic of jesus' foreskin, believe it not (it's true, or so i've read). sometimes they're actual relics, like from a saint or pope or whatnot, but other times they're more along the lines of relics of the actual three wise men contained in a golden coffer such as the cathedral at cologne (koln), germany (my favourite only because i've been there, lol). i think even they admit that's probably a dubious claim, if i remember the tour guide right.

but, there are plenty of saints and believers who are 'miraculously' preserved in death for 'no earthly reason.' invariably there *are* reasons, ones even the caretakers of such knowledge are fully aware. but, do they tell the hordes of people coming in worshipping in front of the nun encased in glass that really her body was preserved using very mortal means? nah, let the masses believe what they will. what's the harm, right?

indeed, why even bother? people will believe what fantasy makes them happy. if the priests told them the truth they wouldn't believe it. how many times does the shroud of turin have to be debunked just to have another team of investigators come along and prove what's already been proven a dozen times over? funny how the christ's actual death shroud could be seen dotting the pilgrim trail as often as anything else, eh? it was like there was a death shroud factory cranking these things out, lol. okay, that's an exaggeration, but there were more than one shroud floating around.

if you're a religion guy trying to save souls of the ignorant, though, hey, what's a little white lie if it gets them into your church? let them think your mud, straw and thatch church has some fantastic relic if it brings the illiterate farmer in so you can recite latin to them, thus assuring them there are greater schemes afoot then what they can see (and quite literally understand). since they can't read, decorate the walls of your church with graphic scenes of sex to show them what *not* to do and of violence, knowing every second that the real reason behind such depictions isn't so much to illustrate what not to do, but to titillate and entice someone into your church. (though painting the outside of your church with murals probably doesn't have many examples left anymore from the dark ages, you can find plenty of evidence of this practice in cathedral art statuary.) so, it is such a stretch to believe that they wouldn't perpetuate the same 'we know what it really is, yet even if we told you you'll still make something out of it regardless' method that's worked for nearly two thousand years? and really, it's only a blatant lie when they say it's impossible for those sounds to come from a human.

anyone remember the whole fatima prophecy thing? what a disaster that was. or, of the billions of tortillas ever made, that one random tortilla happened to coincidentally resemble something was suddenly an object of worship (and disregarding the ones who happen to look like abraham lincoln)? it seems funny and obvious to a lot of us, but to others it's the most exciting thing in the world to find an image of Mary in the clouds (especially the anglo-saxon cariacature). people are only too quick to believe they found joseph's (i believe it was) ossuary.

on the flip-side, i thought the hitler diaries were real, too. what seemed reasonable and plausible is still a hoax, lol.

'so, preyer, what you're saying is don't believe in anything? that's pretty cynical, don't you think?' cynical? pretty much, yeah, but also realistic. the problem i see here is the same problem i had when i worked for GM and then Delphi. the management lied so often and with such consistency and veracity that when they told you the truth, which was about 1 out of every 150 things they said, how are you to know? it's the boy who cried wolf thing taken to extremes. the best lies, after all, are the whoppers with a smidgeon of truth to 'em. so, yeah, there may have been a girl in russian who made those sounds, but it was as a result of more mundane causes than being inhabited by a slice of hell, i'm sure. why, supposedly, are more exorcisms being performed? since more people are asking for them, that's why.

i have no doubt that my buddy would be 'cured of daemonic possession' as he believes he is possessed to a certain degree were he to find in an 'exorcist' he could believe in. oh, he'd still be loony, but loony from a more positive perspective at least. even so, he'll eventually wind-up permanently in an institution, and no priest will keep him from that fate. until he finds that 'miracle'-worker who might possibly delay the inevitable, he more or less self-exorcises. not to be flippant, but you could offer kits like that to help people who believe they're possessed and i'm sure it'd work on some level. 'lose your demons in 12 easy steps' then sell them a sugar pill if it helps. but, then purveyors of such ridiculous 'cures' are no better than the 11th century charlatan, are they? or the 19th century cure-all elixir peddlers... or the modern 'lose weight while you sleep with the cortiscam pill' pushers... or the 'stare at the big blue dot in 'the enquirer' and concentrate on your dream' thing... or the-- well, the list goes on, doesn't it?

somewhere along the line someone got the idea that anything that staves off reality is, or at best can be, a good thing. it's never changed and likely never will, for good or ill. :)

[AnneMarble]

Somebody posted these links to rec.arts.sf.written with the subject
line "The Krell are from Saturn." (I think Forbidden Planet counts as a sort of SF horror story...)

The first is a WAV file of radio emissions from Saturn -- under one
meg:
http://www.nasa.gov/123163main_cas-skr1-112203.wav (http://www.nasa.gov/123163main_cas-skr1-112203.wav)

There is also an article on it here:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia07966.html (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia07966.html)

So if you were writing a science fictional horror story, what would
those sounds be? ;)