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 ...

The Aztec death whistle is a mesoamerican instrument designed to imitate a human scream, ... First discovered during a 1999 excavation of an Aztec temple in Mexico City, ...

The Aztec Death Whistle makes a sound that's somewhere between a woman howling in pain, a spooky gust of whistling wind and 'the scream of a thousand corpses'.

“The sound that the death whistle makes innately strikes fear into your heart,” intones presenter James J. Orgill in the clip while holding a 3D-printed version of the instrument.

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, carved ...

Found at archaeological sites throughout Mexico, these so-called "death whistles" have sparked numerous theories and hypotheses, although it’s likely that they were used to honor the wind god ...

The whistle sound is most similar to natural sounds and electronic music effects, and least similar to other instruments like Mexican flutes. Animal, human, and synthetic sounds fall somewhere in ...

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, carved ...

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, carved ...

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, carved ...