With Halloween approaching, it's natural to wonder just a little bit more than usual about things that go "bump" in the night. But what about things that go "bloop" in the deep sea? Poltergeists, ...

Occasionally, mysterious events arise that capture the public's attention. Whether it's a UFO sighting, strange tracks in the ...

When the Bloop was first reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the media began to speculate that it was caused by a giant undersea creature. In 1997, the Bloop was picked up ...

As Ireland's Dara Ó Briain once joked on YouTube, "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it'd stop." The world is full of mysteries to solve and curious subjects to study, and no part of ...

Deep within the Southern Pacific waters, the eerie silence is interrupted by some strange, elusive sounds that travel through the body of the ocean. In 2002, oceanographer Christopher Fox was staring ...

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In 1997, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discovered an unusual, ultra-low-frequency sound emanating from a point off the southern coast of Chile. It was the loudest unidentified ...

In 1997, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recorded a mysterious sound deep in the Pacific Ocean. The sound was nicknamed the Bloop, and its origins have been a matter of ...

What’s that sound? Many scientists have come up with curious answers to explain some of the mysterious noises found in nature, while others are discovering strange new sounds from the extremes of the ...