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Aztec 'death whistles,' used to prepare sacrifice victims to descend to the underworld, scramble your brain, scans reveal
Brain scans of modern listeners suggest that Aztec whistles sound like human screams, which may have prepared sacrifice ...
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Aztec Death Whistle | The Scariest Sound You've Ever Heard
The Aztec Death Whistle. If hell has a sound, I bet it sounds a lot like the Aztec Death Whistle. The Aztec Death Whistle ...
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The Mysterious Aztec Death Whistle and Its Psycho-Affective Effects
The mysterious Aztec "death whistles" have fascinated researchers with their eerie, terrifying effect they have on the ...
Scientists Decode the Haunting Screams of Ancient Aztec Whistles
The Aztec death whistle's scream-like sound evokes fear and symbolizes mythological deities, linking modern and ancient ...
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‘Death whistles’ signaled doom for Aztec sacrifice victims. Hear the ‘screeching’
But in the forests of central Mexico, a single note from an Aztec whistle didn’t always indicate celebration — it meant death. “Death whistles,” or Aztec skull whistles, were short ...
Researchers find Aztec 'death whistles' do weird things to the listeners' brains
Participants in an experiment rated the sounds of the skull-shaped whistles as extremely negative, defining them as ...
Listen to the chilling Aztec death whistles that still terrify people today
A team of scientists from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, has created 3D reconstructions of several Aztec skull ...