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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 ...
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Why Aztec “death whistles” sound like human screams
Archaeologists have discovered numerous ceramic or clay whistles at Aztec sites, dubbed "death whistles" because of their distinctive skull shapes. A new paper published in the journal ...
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This Aztec Death Whistle Will Chill You to the Bone—and Mess With Your Mind
We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? The Aztec death whistle is a mesoamerican instrument designed to imitate a human scream, and was often used during battle or at ...
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Ancient Aztec death whistle still terrifies people today, study finds — and you can listen if you’re brave enough
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 ...
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How the Aztec “Death Whistles” Worked, the Terrifying Sound They Used in Sacrifice Rituals, Discovered
The skull-shaped body of the Aztec death whistle may represent Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec Lord of the Underworld. Credit: Sascha Frühholz / UZH The so-called Aztec “death whistle” is an instrument ...
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The chilling sound of the Aztec death whistle
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 ...