Ever wondered what true terror sounds like? The Aztec Death Whistle is an ancient instrument designed to send chills down ...

Known as the "Aztec death whistle," this object is an ancient Mesoamerican wind instrument typically crafted into the shape of a skull. While experts aren't sure what the whistle would have ...

Swiss and Norwegian neuroscientists have discovered that the ancient Aztec death whistle -- often credited with emitting the scariest sound on earth -- still terrifies people today due to a primal ...

The Aztec skull whistle produces a shrill, screaming sound. A study conducted at the University of Zurich shows that these whistles have a disturbing effect on the human brain. The Aztecs may have ...

Aztec death whistles don't fit into any existing Western classification for wind instruments; they seem to be a unique kind of "air spring" whistle, based on CT scans of some of the artifacts.

For those who want to celebrate Halloween like it’s 1399: Scientists are sending shivers down the internet’s collective spine by recreating an ancient “Aztec Death Whistle” that’s said ...

Aztec Death Whistles Have A Terrifying Effect On Listeners ... Sometimes called “death whistles”, the ancient shriekers are speculated to have been used in warfare to terrify opponents on the ...

Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand. But no one blew into the whistles for nearly 15 ...

ANCIENT Aztec ‘death whistles’ have a strange ‘uncanny valley’-style effect on the human brain, new research has found. These clay instruments were often shaped like human s… ...

In the 1990s, archeologists in Mexico City unearthed a 500-year-old skeleton near an ancient Aztec temple—a victim of human sacrifice. A grisly discovery, ...

Aztec death whistles have a unique instrumental construction . To understand the physical mechanisms behind the whistle's shrill and screeching sound, a team of researchers at the University of ...