DID YOU HEAR THAT?
Strange things sound has done, the myths built around themBy B.Tenorio, A.Jay
Length8h 23m
About this audiobook
DID YOU HEAR THAT?
Somebody drops a plate behind you and you jump.
You didn't decide to. Nobody could decide not to. The signal reaches your muscles in three connections, and your eyes are shut before your brain has worked out what the noise was.
Everything in this book runs on that shortcut.
The whistle that was said to liquefy a man's organs, and the note it actually played — one you could hum. The bridge everyone was taught was destroyed by resonance, which wasn't. The dinosaur that never roared. The frequency that supposedly proves a wartime conspiracy, chosen because the other number was prime. The ghost explained by science, and then the science that nobody checked either.
Some of these stories turn out to be true. More of them began as careful measurements by honest people, and then a number came loose from the sentence that gave it meaning.
Every myth is scored out of ten. Ten is near the truth. One is flying pigs
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, Education and Learning
Length8 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 31, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A note before we start
2The Wire
3One — Why You Jump
4Two — Felt, Not Heard
5Three — The Sounds Nobody Can Stand
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6What Sound Does to Matter
7Four — The Sand That Draws Itself
8Five — Holding Things Up With Noise
9Six — The Bridge That Wasn't Resonance
10Seven — Breaking Glass With a Voice
11Eight — Cold Water, Hot Light
12Before Anyone Was Listening
13Nine — The Trombone in the Skull
14Ten — The Jaw That Learned to Listen
15Eleven — Ears in the Wrong Places
16Twelve — The Bell in the Jar
17The Loudest Things That Ever Happened
18Thirteen — Is Krakatoa a Myth?
19Fourteen — A Throbbing in the Air
20Fifteen — The Tunnel Nobody Built
21Rooms That Do Things to People
22Sixteen — The Shells in the Mountain
23Seventeen — Did They Mean It?
24Eighteen — Five and a Half Seconds
25Nineteen — The Number That Got Away
26Making It a Weapon
27Twenty — Two Thousand Years of Silence
28Twenty-One — The Guns You Cannot Hear
29Twenty-Two — The Sound of an Army That Wasn't There
30Twenty-Three — The Whistle That Killed Nobody
31Twenty-Four — The Man Who Ran Out the Clock
32Twenty-Five — The One That Works
33Twenty-Six — The Alarm Nobody Hears
34What the Wave Carries
35Twenty-Seven — The Sound of Your Own Ear
36Twenty-Eight — Everything You Are Not Hearing
37Twenty-Nine — Sounds Somebody Was Paid to Make
38Thirty — Six Trumpeters on a Flatbed Truck
39Thirty-One — The Barrier That Was Never There
40Thirty-Two — Seeing With the Wrong Organ
41The Numbers People Believe In
42Thirty-Three — Why an Octave Is the Same Note
43Thirty-Four — The Number They Chose Because It Divided Nicely
44Thirty-Five — The Hum That Is Not a Sound
45Thirty-Six — The Sound That Was Not in the Room
46Thirty-Seven — The Explanation That Became a Ghost Story
47Listening
48Thirty-Eight — Fifty-Three Ears
49Thirty-Nine — The Quiet You Cannot Buy
50Notes on Sources
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