The Bloop: Ten Years After.

What most people don't know is that the U.S. Navy has microphones all over the oceans of the world. It's a cold war hold over designed to detect enemy submarines. They keep the microphones going these days becuase science is cool and who knows what you might find.

Well, in 1997 they detected "The Bloop." I won't go into too many details. You can read about it for yourself. Don't worry, it isn't too long. In a nutshell, the Bloop was a really low frequency sound these mics picked up. To this day no one has any idea what made this sound. It's organic in origin, or at least seems to in the same range, but based on time and frequency it would require a really big damn animal to make that noise. Much bigger than anything that is alive today. Like most weird things, it was quickly shelved and forgotten about.

Honestly, sounds resonate long, long distances in the ocean at a specific depth. It was probably a whale or even something inorganic, like a tectonic plate shifting. But deep in my heart I would like to belive it was something undiscovered and we might never know exactly what it was. Mystery makes being a science geek worth it. As a human I crave explanation and resolutions. That's just a natural need for closure. However, I will say a good mystery is better than a good solution any day.

So let us take this day and give thanks to the unresolved weird stuff in the world. Happy 10th anniversary, Bloop! May you continue to weird out audiologists forever more.

As a final note, the Bloop originated somewhere off the South American coast. It's computed coordinantes match very closely with the city of R'lyeth from H.P. Lovecraft's story, "The Call of Cthulhu." I'm not kidding.