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[The Thing. Inception. EverymanHYBRID. Adventure Time]

What about Silent Hill?

Actually, you know what the creepiest air raid siren is, to me?

This.

It's a simulation, but I'm told it matches pretty closely the original massive siren it's imitating.

That sounds VERY different from the sound they usually use in fiction! Wow!

Now that I've heard it, I would speculate that this is because using the real sound would make everyone shit their pants, heh.

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dethtoll - 2014-05-15 23:17 (UTC) - Expand

a_potato - 2014-05-15 23:30 (UTC) - Expand

icecheetah - 2014-05-16 00:07 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2014-05-16 01:21 (UTC) - Expand

oh, wow... o.o

Haha, I was going to mention Silent Hill as well.

God, that siren simulation sounds like it came straight out of hell.

I know right? I've never heard a siren like it, probably because most sirens simply aren't that friggin' huge.

It chills you bones.

Wow. The tones of that siren are off just enough to make the stomach drop.

It really does sound like the end of the world.

Huh, that sounds kind of like Israel's air raid sirens, just a bit lower in tone. It doesn't capture how, when it goes off, it vibrates right down through your ears. You can feel sirens.

We hear them all the time, during air raid practices, memorial days, etc. It never occurred to me people would find it so creepy.

I think the creepiness might be based on your background? Like, I grew up where in the 50s and later there was a lot of atomic testing and we had to deal with the radiation from that even decades later. Plus with Area 51 and other large-scale military bases in the region most adults figured we'd be a prime spot for any nuclear attacks.

I'm not sure our community even had sirens installed, but I knew the sound from all the info videos we had to watch as kids and it's always been linked with the most horrific aspects of nuclear fallout for me.

ketita - 2014-05-15 23:36 (UTC) - Expand

I'm not even going to listen to that because air raid sirens freak me the fuck out. The used to run an air raid siren in my hometown every once in a while around noon and it fucked me up as a kid.

My town still does this every day at noon. I still don't know why but it's creepy as fuck on foggy days.

Good god that actually makes my stomach tense up. O_o

Also, this is not a thing I was expecting to go on a YouTube video jump about tonight. I guess I really like sirens.

The Silent Hill ones creep me out. As does that vid/recording. GAH!

I just showed that to my dad, who was a kid in the 40s and he said it was a pretty good imitation.

The noise itself didn't creep me out, but I've never encountered an air raid siren before.

OP

Dude this is awesome! Thanks for the link!

Ever watched Silent Hill (movies or games)?

wait do you mean the thing in every single movie trailer now?

BWAAAAA Line. BWAAAAA Line. BWAAAAA Explosion. BWAAAAAA BUM. BUM. BUM. BUMBUMBUMBUM

pithy line.

title card bwuhhhh.

Accurate, tbh. (Though I love that sound. Makes everything a little more ~epic~.

I completely get this. I do something very similar. If I have a nightmare about something, or I'm afraid of something, or even just bothered by something, then I seek it out. I feel a need to explore it further.

Maybe it's about trying to understand it, or to build up a tolerance to it, so that the fear goes away.

OP

Ha, you just described me perfectly! I don't know why I seek out what frightens me, but I think it's my way of trying to desensitise myself or something.

Right there with you. A siren in a movie or even real life just makes me feel like i need to *runhidehidehide!!!!*