“Death whistles,” or Aztec skull whistles, were short, carved instruments made of two opposing chambers where air could clash ...

Brain scans of modern listeners suggest that Aztec whistles sound like human screams, which may have prepared sacrifice ...

The mysterious Aztec "death whistles" have fascinated researchers with their eerie, terrifying effect they have on the ...

The Aztec death whistle is a mesoamerican instrument designed to imitate a human scream, and was often used during battle or ...

Ranging from a threatening hiss to a blood-curdling scream, the sound of the Aztec death ... whistle (enlarged in red box) as discovered 1987–89 at the Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl temple in Mexico ...

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 ...

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