The Bloop Sound: Caused by the biggest animal or creature ever? An enormous underwater creature, many times larger than the blue whale, caused a sound so loud it was heard by scientists 3000 miles apart. Was it a blue whale, a Kraken, megalodon, colossal squid or maybe even Cthulhu awakening from his slumber? <br /> <br />In 1997, an array of hydrophones, special underwater microphones used by scientists to study happenings under the ocean, detected an extremely loud and low-frequency sound that was able to be heard more than 3000 miles away from its source. <br /> <br />It was calculated to have occurred ways west off the coast of the South American tip. <br /> <br />The sound, due to what it sounds like when sped up 16 times was dubbed "The Bloop" and sounds like this. <br /> <br />Ill play the real sound for you, which is much creepier, at the end of this video. <br /> <br />Due to the frequency signature of the sound, marine biologists believe the sound was not man made from something like a bomb or due to any sort of underwater volcanic or seismic activity. It seemed to more so match that of some sort of underwater mammal - like the blue whale. <br /> <br />The problem is the loudest sound detected by a blue whale could only reach a little under 1000 miles...thus whatever it is that caused this sound had to be several orders of magnitude larger than the largest known living organism. <br /> <br />Take this size comparison chart. A school bus is about this size. <br /> <br />A blue whale is about this size. <br /> <br />Whatever produced this sound, assuming it was the animal in nature had to be about this size....which is HUUUUGE. <br /> <br />Just what made this sound? Was it really a giant underwater sea creature that we have yet to discover...or perhaps something even more mysterious and foreign? <br /> <br />Could there of ever even be anything that lived before that made this sound? Let’s ask Adam over at Epic Wildlife. <br /> <br />Could it have been a megalodon? Or a colossal squid? Unlikely – as they are both much smaller than a blue whale. And yet, no prehistoric animal ever discovered has been bigger than a blue whale. <br /> <br />It’s scary to think how much of our ocean depths are still completely unexplored. <br /> <br />The problem with a blue whale being the culprit is that the loudest sound ever recorded by a blue whale could only just reach the range of 1000 miles. <br /> <br />Thus, whatever it is that caused this sound had to be several orders of magnitude larger than the largest known organism, the blue whale. <br /> <br />Take this size comparison chart. A school bus is about this size. A blue whale is about this size. Whatever produced this sound, assuming it was the animal in nature, had to be about this size, probably a little less than the size of the Eiffel tower. <br /> <br />Just what made this sound? Was it really a giant underwater creature that we have yet to discover or perhaps something even more mysterious and foreign? <br />It is said we know much less about what lurks in the depths of our ocean than we do about outer space.
