Empyrean Iris Story Collection Vol. 3

Infrasound

Report ID 3045671

Dr. Krill

The Gibb council is now accepting my reports, though, I have become aware that they are banned from publication on the Vrul home world. Since I am already slated for termination, have no problem calling the Vrul council a Fascist authoritarian dictatorship attempting to censor information from the people and rule by fear. I say this because, what are they going to do to me? Call my termination order faster? I do thank the Gibb council for allowing me to begin publishing my works again, as I think this information is most beneficial for nonhuman readers to understand humans more readily.

I recently experienced an important lesson in the area of the human supernatural sense of danger, which, to my delight, produced a scientific explanation for their behavior. For the longest time we have known that some humans seem to have the uncanny ability of detecting danger before it even occurs and seemingly without sight or sound of the danger itself. Well, at least in one case, I have found the answer.

First you will require an anatomy lesson. The human ear can detect a diverse range of sound frequencies from around 20 to 200,00 Hz though most humans' hearing deteriorates over time leaving that range a little smaller. However, it has long been known that humans, while they cannot hear sounds lower than this, they can at least detect it. These frequencies are known to humans as Infrasound, and generally require large animals {elephants and whales} to make the sounds organically. However, machines, natural disasters, and large speakers have the ability to produce the sounds as well.

You see that powerful machines powerful animals, and natural disasters are the only things strong enough to produce such a sound, for this reason, we might assume that the things that can make these noises are powerful or manmade.

Now we come to the interesting part of my report. Exposure to such sounds have been known to cause humans panic, paranoia, nausea, and even visual hallucinations.

Techniques like this have been used in horror movies for the past two thousand years to create a sense of unease.

Historical records indicate a movie from a film festival in 2002 where the director admitted to using a continual sound at around 27 Hz through the first twenty to thirty minutes of his already controversial and graphic movie. While the graphic nature of the movie was such that some audiences might not have been able to stomach it, most humans probably would have handled it just fine knowing what they were getting themselves into. Accept that multiple people threw up, some of the goers passed out and others required immediate medical attention. Questions were raised left and right to the graphic nature of the movie until it was found out that this sound was being used to unsettle the viewers.

Sounds within a similar range have even been used for riot control in the past, as it is difficult to riot or protest when you are feeling terribly nauseous. Sound is more difficult to focus than that of light, so it is optimal for an affect over a large area with a large amount of people.

Anyone can produce such a sound and such an affect if they have a large enough set of speakers.

Now, you might ask. How does one explain the mechanics of such a response?

We know that Drev can hear sounds as low as 16hz and do not experience the same affect as humans despite having the most similar auditory system.

The answer to that lies in the powerful nature of these sort of sounds in themselves.

We already know that in order to create a sound this deep you need a powerful animal, machine, or natural disaster. When these sounds are made, they are forced to travel through the air just like any other sound in waves just like everything else.