Here are some disturbing sounds that will haunt your dreams, give you nightmares and generally creep you out. What you do with them is up to you. You can use these in constructive ways – for example, I know that some game masters like to use music as mood building tools. Putting the Shepard’s Tone track onto your gaming playlist could create hell of a creepy mood for those Call of Cuthullu sessions. Or you can use it for some disturbing pranks – like smuggling the backwards musing onto someones ipod’s easy listening mp3 playlist. :)
Anyway here they are:
First up is the Sheppard’s Tone – it is a sound that seems to be continously rising or falling, but really doesn’t. Best description of it I heard was that it is the audio equivalent of a barbers pole – it seems to be moving, but it doesn’t. The sample I have here is really ominous and creepy:
Second is actually a shortwave radio recording from a Numbers Station. I wrote about these mysterious spy stations in the past. The interesting thing about this stations is that they don’t always use a voice reading off words or numbers. Some use odd music like recordings. I previously linked to the creepy russian polytone sound [direct mp3 link]. This recording is even creepier – it is some music recording played backwards:
This one literally makes my skin crawl for some reason. Please feel free to link to your picks for ultra creepy and disturbing sounds in the comments. :)
[tags]creepy music, creepy sounds, disturbing sounds, Shepard’s tone, backwards music, russian polytone, number stations[/tags]