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Chapter 8

"Deadly Sounds" Dr. Vladimir Gavreau

"Lost Science" by Gerry VassilatosLimited permission granted to use this material in other presentations.

ISBN 0-932813-75-5 1999

Source: http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/history/gavreau.htm

SIGNALS

He listened and closed his eyes as the rolling waves of sound pouredover and through his being. Thrilling, intoxicating, the hysteria ofheaven, the enthralled and frightening flight of angels. Electrifying.Messaien's organ music signaled messages of meaning, titanicfoghorns ululating among dimly perceived near-worlds. OlivierMessaien, master composer of musical expressionism, used the groundthrumming tones of great Parisian cathedral organs to evokesensations, which may only be called otherworldly. Masterfully macabre.Black foundations, blue pillars, and rainbow ceilings.

Sound, rhythm, and space. Ultra-chromatic chord frames, rising likerock walls from the black depths. And immense stellar crystallizations,radiating tonal perfumes through deep and black radiant space. Lovely

and lyrically swooping melodies, the flight of birds through delicatelimbs. And melodic lines, reaching up toward unknown depths of space,each had their foundation in ultra bass tones of rooted depth. The bassoprofunda of Messaien are the critical foundations, the strong verticalpillars of an immense architecture, which extends beyond performancewalls. He scoured the deep and unreachable roots of worlds to hold hismusical cathedrals together. Such majesty and grandeur of sound! Richin the intelligence, which flooded and made the world, the musicalcurrents and the atmosphere of tones. Fluidic music and meaning.

The most fundamental signals, which permeate this world, are inaudible.

They not only surpass our hearing, but they undergird our being.Natural infrasounds rumble through experience daily. Theremanifestations are fortunately infrequent and incoherent. Infrasound isinaudible to human hearing, being of pitch below 15 cycles per second.The bottom human limit. The plynth. The foundation. Infrasound is notheard, it is felt. Infrasound holds a terrible secret in its silent roar.

Infrasound produces varied physiological sensations, which begin asvague "irritations". At certain pitch, infrasound produces physicalpressure. At specific low intensity, fear and disorientation. Nazipropaganda engineers methodically used infrasound to stir up the

hostilities of crowds who were gathered to hear their madman. Theresults are historical nightmares.
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At a very specific pitch, infrasound explodes matter. At others,infrasound incapacitates and kills. Organisms rupture in its blast. Seacreatures use this power to stun and kill prey.

The swelling bass tones of the cathedral seem as though they can burst

the very pillars, which uphold the ancient vaults. Stained glass windowshave been known to erupt in a shower of colored fragments from theorgan's basso profunda. Impulsed ultrabass tones ... thunder.Somewhere in the almost inaudible roll of these basement sounds therewas a devastating and fearful power.

THUNDER

As thunderous tones deepen, their power seemingly intensifies overfrail barriers such as glass windows. Certain abrupt thunder peals oftenshatter windows into tiny fragments. In the apparent absence ofthunderous tones we may observe the strong and continuous vibrationof glass windowpanes during storms. A sudden eerie silence, and thewindow is shattered before our eyes. Natural phenomena are prodigiousgenerators of infrasound. The potent distal effects produced whennatural explosions occur produce legendary effects. When Krakatoaexploded, windows were shattered hundreds of miles away by theinfrasonic wave. Wind was not the causative agent of theseoccurrences, as no wind was felt or detected. Seismographic stations

registered the blast, and barometers measured the shockwaves. The"ringing" of both earth and atmosphere continued for hours. It isbelieved that infrasound actually formed the upper pitch of this naturalvolcanic explosion, tones unmeasurably deep forming the actual"central harmonic" of the event. The island of Krakatoa was literallylifted into orbit in the fatal blast. Brilliant sunsets followed for manyyears thereafter, the sad memorial of all the souls who perished.

The power of explosives, in shattering and devastating property, lies intwo zones. The first zone is that with which we are principally familiar;the actual blast site, where chemically released gases and metal

fragments push back everything in their perimeter. The second lessfamiliar zone extends very much further from the blast site than can beimagined. It is in the powerful sonic wave, which expands outward thatan equally destructive danger lies. Thick pressure walls of incrediblemomentum, inters paced with equally thick walls of reduced airpressure, travel far away from the blast site. The blast site is the smalldestructive zone by comparison. Few objects can survive thisdestructive tide.

Analysts contend that infrasound is composed of a very broad band ofpitches. These tones of immense pressure and duration "accommodate"

themselves when encountering resonant cavities. All such resonantcavities are "found and destroyed" when the proper pressure waves


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flow into their resonances. Rooms, halls, alleys, spaces amongbuildings, courtyard areas, cellars, subways, sewer chambers; all theseburst open into flying fragments when infrasonic waves flood them.Infrasound is the cruel tonal giant, tearing open whatever it finds in itspath.

Study reveals that the sudden shock wave of an explosion propels acomplex infrasonic signal far beyond the shattered perimeter.Incoherent though such shockwaves may be, their destructive influencedissolves distant walls and windows seconds after the shrapnel hasdone its deadly work. Objects of all shapes, sizes, and compositionsexplode when the infrasonic impulse passes through their space. Noshield can block infrasound. Physicists have studied the refuse, whichremains after an explosive charge has been detonated. Few materialscan maintain their integrity. Those objects, which manage to surviveexplosions, are noteworthy as infrasonic "resistors". Screen reinforced

concrete does not easily succumb to the infrasonic blasts of explosivecharges.

EARTHQUAKE

The sound of Krakatoa exploding up into space, a vertical excess of onehundred miles, succeeded in blasting out windows at a thousand mileradius from the epicenter. Certain earthquake activities produce large

and virtually insensate vertical displacements of the ground surface, inextreme instances amounting to a few feet per pulse. In this case, theground becomes the surface of a drum, ringing out its deadly cadenceat infrasonic pitch hours before the event. The ground undulates withinfrasonic tones, an elasticity that eventually cracks under the heavingstress.

Ultra low pitch earthquake sounds are keenly felt by animals andsensitive humans. Quakes occur in distinct stages. Long before the finalbreaking release of built up earth tensions, there are numerous andsuccinct precursory shocks. Deep shocks produce strong infrasonic

impulses up to the surface, the result of massive heaving ground strata.Certain animals (fish) actually can hear infrasonic precursors.Precursory shocks are silent, being inaudible in humans. Animals,however, react strongly to the sudden surface assault of infrasonicshocks by attempting escape from the area. Animals cannot locate thesource and center of these infrasonic impulses, behaving in a pitifuldisplay of circular frenzies. The careening motion of wild horses andother domestic animals indicates their fear and anxiety. Poor creatures,neither they nor we can escape the infrasonic source. Encounters withnatural infrasound reveal their vast extent, covering hundreds of squaremiles of surface area.


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Certain animals employ infrasound as weaponry. It has been known thatcertain whales are able to stun their prey with powerful blasts ofinaudible sounds. Called "gunshots", whales focus these powerfulblasts at large squid and other fish to paralyze and catch them. In someinstances, they have been known to burst their prey apart by tonal

projection alone. Human experience with these inaudible blasts havebeen reported. The distress calls emitted by little beached whales wassufficient to push a veterinarian back several feet in the water. Othershave experienced these pressure waves, reporting that their handscould not be brought close to the sinal area of small whales because oftheir inaudible acoustic projections.

Infrasonic shocks produce characteristic pressure effects on structuresand organisms alike. The sensation flattens the body. It is as if one werestruck with a solid invisible wall from which there is no escape. Thereare physiological effects as well. Anxiety, fear, extreme emotional

distress, and mental incapacitation are all part of the unpleasantphenomenon. Notable among human exposures to quake-correlatedinfrasound is the precursory nausea, which many report. This strongsensation leaves its more sensitive victims helpless. Feeling themomentary deep motion of the ground strata beneath them, numerousindividuals have been used to report these sensations in a bizarreearthquake "alarm system". Unfortunately, physiological reaction toinfrasound remains continuous, long after their irritating presence hasceased. The harmfully stimulating influence of infrasound rendersphysiology permeable and ultrasensitive to every availableenvironmental sensation. The extreme irritability of infrasound victimshas been noted.

Earthquake infrasound manifests only at intermittent intervals,producing drastic and sustained negative modifications ofconsciousness. The human organism continues to reel underintermittent infrasonic assault for numerous reasons. After less than afive-minute exposure to low intensity infrasound of 10 cycles persecond, dizziness will last for hours. Infrasound of 12 cycles per secondproduces severe and long lasting nausea after a brief low intensityexposure.

FLOOD

Surf pounds the shore, producing shocks of 16 cycles per second, justshort of the true infrasound range. Ocean waves, which pound theatmosphere across huge ocean areas, produce an acoustic energy witha mean pitch of 16 cycles per second. The phenomenon of the "barisalguns, fog guns, lake guns" form a well documented bibliography ofanomalous acoustic phenomena. These "booming" anomalous tonal

phenomena are not isolated to one area or nation. Every nation hasaccounts of these sea-related mystery sounds. Some regions call them


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"bay detonations", since they come as abruptly explosive intonationsfrom certain bay areas.

Some of these tones manifest their shocking tones at haphazardintervals. But there are those water-related booms, which are periodic,

residents near these sites being accustomed to their mysteriousoccurrence. The strange "explosive" sounds come at certain times ofthe day, at certain times of the month, and at certain times of the year.There are certain other related anomalous natural tones, which ring,hoot, and buzz. Some have been likened to organ tones, tuba blasts, andthe deep intonings of very large bells. Bay sizes, wave sizes, andgeologic compositions of bays and shores have been woven intocomplex mechanistic attempts at explaining how these mystery soundsare being generated in certain environments.

The detonation may be caused by a sudden "slapping" of bay water by a

singular wave having the "right" breadth and momentum, matching thenatural resonant pitch of a bay. The underlying bay rock matrix mayresound in the manner of a bell, gong, or cymbal. The geologicalcomposition of the bay plays the greater part of the effect, sudden windsor water surges knocking the natural "sounding board". These naturalbay tones have great infrasonic content.

The infrasonic outputs of the mystery tones are significant. Each ofthese phenomena produces a range of very low pitch tones. Thesebooming sounds have rattled windows and rocked some small towns.Animals are startled by their inaudible precursors, and humans are oftendizzied after their manifestation for hours. In several areas, people arehospitalized by the "boom" related illnesses.

Waterfalls are notorious generators of infrasound. Numeroussusceptible visitors at Niagara experience a peculiar nausea, which isnot associated with the normal fear of heights. Thundering cataractsproduce strong infrasonic shocks to which mile exposure stimulates thecommon malady. Lake ice and glacial ice produce deep boomingsounds which ring for hours, behaving as large tympanic surfaces. Thethunderous sounds associated with these occurrences produces

infrasound of pitch related to ice surface mass, breadth, and lengthalone. Antarctic research experienced nausea in relation to ice relatedsounds.

Tidal waves and other sudden variations of water surfaces producelarge magnitude "seiche" waves. These have been sighted by oceangoing ships, where oceanic surfaces have drastically changed elevationin an incredibly short time. Ships "drop" into such huge ocean troughsand rise again after the wave passes. In dropping, some have crashed tothe very rock bottom of their bays, only to be lifted in pieces when thewave resurged. Film footage of the great and horrid Alaskan Earthquake

(1964) reveals this devastating sea "drop-out".


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Upon such lethal seiche tides, even in the fortunate absence ofearthquakes, comes nausea and other coastal related illnesses. Largeintensity infrasonic sea shocks have their powerful effect on theoverlying atmosphere of their regions. These infrasonic shock wavestravel for long distances. Certain bays are known for the high incidence

of such illnesses, the result of resonant bay water "heavings" whichoccur daily. Their sickening effects are seemingly "stored up" inphysiology, lasting for hours. While these phenomena proceed fromdeep in the heart of earth, and on its surface, there are phenomena,which generate infrasonic sources ... from space.

FIRE

Aerial earthquake sounds have been reported by observers. Suchrushing, thrumming sounds seem to come from "everywhere" above theaffected locale. Typical of infrasound, the sources cannot be accuratelylocated. When Krakatoa exploded, barometers fluctuated rapidly in shorttime intervals. It was recognized that a new means for detectingearthquakes and other earth movements had been found. The horrifyingdestruction of Krakatoa prompted the emergence of a new science. Therapid development of sensitive barometric instruments provoked thediscovery of a whole new "infrasonic world". The opposing nations ofthe Cold War years used barometers and seismographs in determiningthe relative explosive yield of periodic underground atomic blasts.

Sensitive barometric detection gradually began searching theatmosphere and earth for infrasonic "events". Mysterious and suddenbarometric variations indicates that natural infrasonic generation has amuch wider source than the subterranean earth. Infrasounds associatedwith the Aurora Borealis are too numerous to mention, a well-chronicledoccurrence.

The aurora borealis is heard to "swish, crackle, sizzle, and ... thunder".Quantitative analysts "cannot understand" how these sounds can be"heard" but not recorded. It is obvious that certain auroral soundsstimulate physiological responses, which will never register in

biologically unmodified electronic systems (Lawrence). Though debatescontinue when referring to higher auroral tones, the "thunder" of theaurora stimulates aerial infrasounds, which can be measured.

Low level auroras have been actually seen and felt. The sounds andodors associated with this rare phenomenon are unmistakable. In oneinstance a chemist was fortunate enough to have lived, after witnessingthe effect of auroral grounding throughout his laboratory. The incredibleluminescence produced in several platino-cyanides, electro-phosphorescent chemicals, were duly noted and reported. Another suchincident involved the grounding of the aurora into an elevated radio

tower. The radio engineer suddenly heard a crackling sound "fromeverywhere", was unable to transmit any signal power, felt completely


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electrified, smelled ozone everywhere, and heard the "crackling" sound.Numerous witnesses who saw the event, describing the colored columnof light, which suffused the tower, feared he might have been killed byits power.

The auroral high-pitched sizzling sounds are augmented by deep andominous thrumming. These deep tones sweep through the bodies oflisteners who are fortunate enough to survive the dangerous encounter.These permeations produce an irritability and a dizzying nausea. Thesesounds were always equated with evil by the Eskimo. Their legends ofthe aurora are always fear-filled. The trademark of anxiety and dreadhighly characteristic of infrasonic influence, their tales also recount the"taking" of souls by the "ground walking" aurora. English observersreported that the aurora actually "swept along the ground" like a columndescending from the sky. It took a multicolored appearance all along itsmeandering path.

Blasting through interplanetary space, solar flares assault the earth witha barrage of stupendous proportion. Their disturbing effect on electricalsystems is historically noted. The appearance of electrical power surgesduring solar flare events has amounted to many hundreds or eventhousands of amperes line-induced current. Northern lands design theirpower systems to accommodate these periodic manifestations of greatpower. Oil lines in northern lands must be carefully grounded andinsulated to prevent the continuous induction of such harmful electricalsurges. Standing arcs of brilliant blue current had been observed uponthe surface of loose pipe joints during solar flares and strong auroralepisodes.

Few writers have discussed the intermittent effects of solar flares onatmospheric pressure. The sudden changes noted in air pressure, whichcover many thousands of square miles, are obviously sourced in thesolar wind. The effect of this natural atmospheric assault has definedand disturbing influence on both the weather and human behavioralpatterns. Some 139 solar flares were recorded between 1980 and 1983.There is a statistical 155-day periodicity in solar flares, a rhythm oftenviolated by several interstitial flares. Principally used for predicting their

expectable effect on radio communications, specific military observersmonitor solar flares with continued concern. Correlations of flares withjet stream behavior is strong.

Jet stream behavior, in its meanderings and undulations across vastgeographic regions, is not mysterious when considering the intermittenteffect of solar flares and the normal "background" bursting of the solarwind. Traveling at thousands of miles per hour, flare pressures aperiodically barrage the neutral atmosphere. The explosive influence ofvast power shocks the entire weather system, electrically active flaredisturbances violently disrupting all atmospheric processes. The very

obvious outlines of flare contacts with the atmosphere can be traced asmajor pressure changes on weather maps. Solar flare impacts strike the


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earth like a bell. Auroras result, and have been correlated withthunderstorm activities.

But continual minor background disruptions also exist, propelled by thesun. In its normal process, solar expulsions do not arrive at the

atmospheric boundaries as a homogeneous pressure wave. The arrivalof solar products comes as a pressure wave of inconsistent density.This intermittent barrage induces harmonic atmospheric disturbances,which continually modify and chaoticize emerging weather patterns. Theeffect is exactly like "thrumming" an evenly sanded drumhead withinnumerable impacts. This imprint of "background" pressure waves,rattling daily upon the atmosphere from solar winds, can be seen as"Chladni" patterns on weather maps.

Both solar flares and the normal thrummings of the solar wind generateinfrasonic pulses throughout the atmosphere. The infrasonic

shockwaves of the aurora are normally not heard, but definitely sensed.Measurements have registered a continual infrasonic background noiselevel. This pressure energy emanates "from above" atmospheric strata,radiating downward in large patterns.

Atmospheric infrasound is most strongly measured during daytimehours, a clear indication of their source in the intermittent expulsions ofsolar wind. Atmospheric infrasounds arrive at measuring stations withpitch between 0.67 and 1.5 cycles per second. Their pitch continuouslyoscillates between 0.67 and 0.83 cycles per second. These solar sourcedinfrasonic impacts very definitely correlate with sudden swings inhuman behavior, having very obvious sociological implications. Theenergetic content of atmospheric infrasound represents a vast anduntapped potential.

WIND

Infrasound moves, unaffected, through and across both winds andstorms. But wind and storm can generate infrasound. The powerful

harmonic rotations of storms shears the atmosphere, radiating acyclonic series of expanding infrasounds. The sense of impending fear,which proceeds hurricanes, is due to infrasonic emissions. Theinfrasound of seasonal winds and weather patterns produces illness incertain persons. Some individuals can hear the jet stream and itsthunderous pitch, peaking between 30 and 40 cycles per second. Moreand more populations are reporting the persistence of ultralow pitchsounds, which render them weak and fatigued. Having oftenunexplained sources, we find the bibliography flooded with cases ofpersistent "atmospheric ... and underground sounds".

Victims of such infrasonic assaults report severe stomach upsetsassociated with such infrasounds. Persons who report these persistent


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"underground" rumbles often live in a very localized region. These locihave been as small as six miles in diameter. Wind shear action betweenthe rapid jet stream (0.75 miles per second) and more quiescent lowerair strata might continuously generate this persistent infrasound.Natural infrasonic generation is difficult to determine in all cases where

it has been detected. Clashing winds may produce such sustained lowpitches by misunderstood "shearing" actions, similar to Von Karrmanvortices.

Wind shearing may be modified by local topology. Mountain ranges ofspecific geometry may offer the most plausible explanation forinfrasound in certain areas. Their obstructive presence amongregionally prevailing winds may produced sustained aerial vortices fromwhich infrasounds continuously radiate.

Why however does the infrasound focus on certain ground points?

Some theorists claim that wind enters caverns, producing an immenseartificial whistle of infrasonic resonant pitch. Careful examinations ofthese caverns reveal infrasonic pitch of 20 to 30 cycles per second,which does not "register" on tape recordings. Some have suggestedthat these infrasounds are only sensed in physiology, being"electrostatic" in nature. They also claim that the incidence of ground-focusing infrasound is an electrical manifestation, the result ofemerging terrestrial charges in highly localized regions.

How does sustained infrasound affect manmade structures? Gustingwind has often applied such instantaneous pressure to manmadeartifice that strong rock walls fall flat in tiny pieces. These suddenevents often occur when winds seemingly ceased for an instance.During that brief interval, windows are often blown through, and wallsare toppled by infrasonic impulse.

What is the sustained influence of infrasound on humans and humanbehavior? Mysterious desert humming sounds fill the night of nomadswith superstitious dread. Deep, buzzing, and threatening, thesecontinuous humming tones have produced anxiety and fear amongbedouins for centuries. The "ghost wails" appear in the mythology and

folktales of the desert people. But these deep and virtually inaudiblehumming tones are not confined to the desert plains, where they thrashamong themselves across sandy dunes. The Mistral, the northwardwinds of the African continent, sweeps over the southern Mediterraneancoastlands during late fall. These familiar hot winds emerge from theirdesert journeys with a strange power, lasting throughout the winter.These winds leave an indelible trace among exposed communities, aphenomenon that has been misunderstood for centuries.

The Mistral, weak in infrasonic intensity, does not wreak havoc withmaterial structures. But the Mistral works its permeating harm

nonetheless. For the inhabitants of certain coastal areas, the lowintensity infrasound of the Mistral brings with it a peculiar seasonal


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anxiety and depression. In certain locations across the Mediterraneancoastland there are individuals who suffer from "seasonal nervousexhaustion" and other "neurophysical maladies". It is known thatwhenever the Mistral blows, there will be increased emotional tension,depression, and irritability. The Mistral, in numerous cases, has

produced fatalities.

Infrasound travels long distances, often exceeding one thousand miles,with virtually no attenuation. Its pressures thus arrive at great distanceswith the same force and intensity as when generated. A deadly pressure.The atmosphere sustains prolonged and powerful infrasonic vibrations.How natural conditions can systematically modify human behavior forprotracted seasonal periods is frightening. How natural conditions cansystematically modify large-scale social behavior for protractedseasonal periods is equally frightening. Not much acoustic power isrequired for infrasound to produce such extreme and sustained

physiological symptoms.

Fohn winds are dry and warm southerly winds, which traverse theAlpine regions of Europe. Fohn weather is characterized by clear skies,high visibility, and dry atmosphere. Studies of "Fohn weather" and theMistral alike have revealed some intriguing and frightening statisticalcorrelations. The biological effects of both Mistral and Fohn weatherhave been well documented. These include extreme irritability, accident-prone loss of objective judgment, slight disorientation, mild nausea, anddiarrhea.

It is an established fact that sustained low intensity infrasound altershuman behavior and health. Higher accident rates are correlated withpre-Fohn weather onset. This high accident rate rises until theestablishment of Fohn weather, having been attributed to the infrasoniccontent of the winds.

ENGINES

Vibrating manmade structures stimulate the artificial generation ofdangerous infrasound. When turns are made at 60 miles per hour, carchassis vibrations produce a peak infrasonic emission. Travel sicknesscan be associated with prolonged infrasonic exposure to any vibratingchassis. Cars, buses, trains, motorcycles, and jets alike each registerhazardous intensities of infrasound. Each transportation mode has itscharacteristic infrasonic pitch, the necessary outcome of mechanicalfrictions and inertial resistances.

There is difficulty in recording and reproducing ultra deep tones forstudy and analysis. They have to be generated on site for experimental

purposes. Theater-sized sound systems can never completely transmitall of the sensations associated with naturally occurring infrasound. But


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there have been instances where audiences have become frighteninglyill because of the accidental generation of infrasound in a theater space.

Of critical importance is the comprehension of human tolerances toinfrasound. Military medical teams have long studied the effect of

machine vibration on human judgment and behavior out of necessity. Ifjet pilots and rocket pilots alike evidence even minor errors in judgmentthrough their exposure to infrasound, disaster can result. Certain criticalerrors in judgment and accuracy have in fact been noted during shortflight times.

The powerful infrasonic vibrations of jet chassis absolutely saturate thebodies of pilots. Continually saturated with these infrasonic energiesthroughout their flight time, pilot reflexes are severely diminished.Military procedure recognizes this factor, and routinely limits flight time.It is known that excess infrasonic exposures endanger pilots and their

flight missions. Pilot damaging effects include decrements in vision,speech, intelligence, orientation, equilibrium, ability to accuratelydiscern situations, and make reasonable decisions.

THE ABYSS

The Cold War was on. The United States alone held the dread secret.The most terrible weapon yet developed was the private property of one

government. The mere existence of the atomic bomb was threat tonations whose motives were not entirely altruistic. Motivated,aggressive, and imperialistic, obtaining atomic bomb data was a priorityfor several nations. The only manner in which some nations obtainedthe secret was by stealing it. When Stalin's science officers finallydeveloped an atomic duplicate of the American bomb, pressuresuddenly was placed upon every other European nation to achieve anequivalent or better device.

When one seeks to defend one's borders, the consequences ofreleasing weapons of devastation to the world do not seem important.

Weaponry is death-oriented by nature. But there are moral differencesbetween weapons of defense and weapons of offense. Previous to thisatomic proliferation, competing nations concentrated their weaponsresearch on truly bizarre and equally deadly means for defending theirnational boundaries. A great variety of such deadly weapons wereperfected in rapid succession. This included deadly variations andcombinations of gas weaponry, pathogenic agents, and radiantweaponry. Stalin's research teams investigated psychic powers as apossible means for destroying an enemy. Psychotronic warfare wasdeveloped among numerous groups, both private and national, withmeasurable success. Information on some simpler psychotronic

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In truth, the larger the weaponry the less safe the national boundariestruly were. While the superpowers concentrated their weaponsdevelopment programs on mass-destructive nuclear weaponry, othersfocused on more practical conventions. The limited tactical warfare ofsmall battlefields seemed a more immediate need. While developing

their own atomic device, France sought defensive tactical weaponry onevery possible technological front. Short-range weapons would bestdefend against a conventional national assault. But other systems werealso sought; systems which, though non-nuclear, were equallyinvincible. As the great Frankish Knight, Charles "the Hammer" Martelrepelled ruthless invaders from the medieval east, so a new hammerwould be sought to defend France against possible new enemies fromthe east. Even as Charles Martel arose from obscurity, so this strangenew "hammer" would arise in equal obscurity.

GAVREAU

The central research theme of Dr. Vladimir Gavreau was thedevelopment of remote controlled automatons and robotic devices. Tothis end he assembled a group of scientists in 1957. The group,including Marcel Miane, Henri Saul, and Raymond Comdat, successfullydeveloped a great variety of robotic devices for industrial and militarypurposes. In the course of developing mobile robots for use inbattlefields and industrial fields, Dr. Gavreau and his staff made a

strange and astounding observation, which, not only interrupted theirwork, but became their major research theme.

Housed in a large concrete building, the entire group periodicallyexperienced a disconcerting nausea, which flooded the research facility.Day after day, for weeks at a time, the symptoms plagued theresearchers. Called to inspect the situation, industrial examiners alsofell victim to the malady. It was thought that the condition was causedby pathogens, a "building sickness". No such agencies were everbiologically detected. Yet the condition prevailed. Research schedulesnow seriously interrupted, a complete examination of the building was

called.

The researchers noticed that the mysterious nauseations ceased whencertain laboratory windows were blocked. It was then assumed that"chemical gas emissions" of some kind were responsible for themalady, and so a thorough search of the building was undertaken. Whileno noxious fumes could be detected by any technical means, the sourcewas finally traced by building engineers to an improperly installedmotor-driven ventilator. The engineers at first thought that this motormight be emitting noxious fumes, possibly evaporated oils andlubricants. But no evaporated products were ever detected. It was found

that the loosely poised low speed motor, poised in its cavernous duct ofseveral stories, was developing "nauseating vibrations".


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The mystery magnified for Dr. Gavreau and his team, when they tried tomeasure the sound intensity and pitch. Failing to register any acousticreadings at all, the team doubted the assessment of the buildingengineers. Nevertheless, closing the windows blocked the sense ofnausea. In a step of brilliant scientific reasoning, Gavreau and his

colleagues realized that the sound with which they were dealing was solow in pitch that it could not register on any available microphonicdetector. The data was costly to the crew.

They could not pursue the "search" for long time periods. During thevery course of tracking the sound down, an accidental direct exposurerendered them all extremely ill for hours. When finally measured, it wasfound that a low intensity pitch of a fundamental 7 cycles per secondwas being produced. Furthermore, this infrasonic pitch was not one ofgreat intensity either. It became obvious that the slow vibrating motorwas activating an infrasonic resonant mode in the large concrete duct.

Operating as the vibrating "tongue" of an immense "organ pipe", therattling motor produced nauseating infrasound. Coupled with the rest ofthe concrete building, a cavernous industrial enclosure, the vibrating aircolumn formed a bizarre infrasonic "amplifier".

Knowledge of this infrasonic configuration also explained why shuttingthe windows was mildly effective in "blocking the malady". The windowsaltered the total resonant profile of the building, shifting the infrasonicpitch and intensity. Since this time, others have noted the personallydamaging effects of such infrasonic generation in office buildings andindustrial facilities. The nauseating effects of exposure to a low intensitynatural or manmade infrasonic source is now well appreciated.

It has become a routine architectural procedure to seek out and alterany possible such resonant cavities. The sources often appear in olderbuildings, the result of construction rendered faulty by previous lack ofthis knowledge. All such "improper" architectural formats are modifiedby the additions of sound-blocking materials.

WHISTLES

Dr. Gavreau and his research team now carefully investigated the effectsof their "infrasonic organ" at various intensity levels and pitch.Changing the spring tension on shock mounts, which held the fanmotor, it was possible to change the pitch. Various infrasonicresonances were established throughout the large research building.Shutting the windows blocked most of the symptoms. When the windowwas again opened, however weak as the source was made, the team feltthe nauseating effects once again. In the business of military research,Dr. Gavreau believed he had discovered a new and previously "unknown

weapon" in these infrasounds. Aware of the natural explosives by whichinfrasonics are generated, Dr. Gavreau began to speculate on the ap-


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plication of infrasonics as a defense initiative. The haphazard explosiveeffects of natural infrasound in thunderclaps were quite effective indemonstrating what an artificial "thunder-maker" could do. But, howcould a thunderclap be artificially generated in a compact system?These thoughts stimulated theoretical discussions on the possibility of

producing coherent infrasound: an infrasonic "laser".

The first devices Dr. Gavreau implemented were designed to imitate the"accident" which first made his research group aware of infrasonics.They designed real organ pipes of exceedingly great width and length.The first of these was six feet in diameter and seventy-five feet long.These designs were tested outdoors, securely propped againstprotective sound-absorbent walls. The investigators stood at a greatdistance. Two forms of these infrasonic organ pipes were built. The firstutilized a drive piston, which pulsed the pipe output. The second utilizedcompressed air in a more conventional manner.

The main resonant frequency of these pipes occurred in the "range ofdeath", found to lie between three and seven cycles per second. Thesesounds could not be humanly heard, a distinct advantage for a defensesystem. The effects were felt however. The symptoms come on rapidlyand unexpectedly, though the pipes were operating for a few seconds.Their pressure waves impacted against the entire body in a terrible andinescapable grip. The grip was a pressure which came in on one from allsides simultaneously, an envelope of death.

Next came the pain, dull infrasonic pressure against the eyes and ears.Then came a frightening manifestation on the material supports of thedevice itself. With sustained operation of the pipe, a sudden rumblerocked the area, nearly destroying the test building. Every pillar andjoint of the massive structure bolted and moved. One of the techniciansmanaged to ignore the pain enough to shut down the power supply.

These experiments with infrasonics were as dangerous as those earlyinvestigations of nuclear energy. Dr. Gavreau and his associates weredangerously ill for nearly a day after these preliminary tests. Thesemaladies were sustained for hours after the device was turned off.

Infrasonic assaults on the body are the more lethal because they comewith dreadful silence. The eyesight of Dr. Gavreau and his fellowworkers were affected for days. More dangerously were their internalorgans affected: the heart, lungs, stomach, intestinal cavity were filledwith continual painful spasms for an equal time period.

Musculature convulses, torques, and tears were the symptoms of infra-sonic exposure. All the resonant body cavities absorbed the self-destructive acoustic energy, and would have been torn apart had thepower not been extinguished at that precise moment. The effectivenessof infrasound as a defense weapon of frightening power having been

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fearful exercise. How powerful could the output of an infrasonic devicebe raised before even the operating engineers were affected?

With greatest caution and respect for the power with which they worked,Dr. Gavreau began recalculating all of his design parameters. He had

grossly misjudged the power released by the pipes. He had, in fact,greatly lowered those calculated outputs for diagnostic purposes. Neverhad he imagined that these figures were actually far too great in theworld of infrasound!

Empirical data being the only way to determine how infrasonic energycorrelated with both biological and material effect, the tests were againattempted with a miniature power supply. First, the dimensions of thesedevices had to be greatly reduced. Their extreme length wasobjectionable. In order to provide absolutely safe control of the deadlyblasts, several emergency cutoff switches were provided. These

responded to the radiated infrasonic pressure wave. The intensity couldbe absolutely limited by use of automated barometric switches.

In an attempt to achieve more compact and controllable infrasoundgenerators, Dr. Gavreau designed and tested special horns and"whistles" of various volumes. These were each remarkably simple flatcircular resonant cavities, having a side output duct. They were simplythe large analogues of foghorns and police whistles. These flat formswere volumetrically reduced in successive design stages because it wasfound that their output was far too great. The infrasonic foghorns couldproduce a frightening two kilowatts of infrasonic energy, at a pitch ofone hundred fifty cycles per second.

The flat "police whistles" were more easily designed to requiredspecifications. Their overall characteristics were quite simple todetermine, a mathematical formula being devised for the purpose. Thewhistle's resonant pitch was found by dividing its diameter into anumerical constant of 51. Increasing the depth of the whistle effectivelyincreased its amplitude. A whistle 1.3 meters in diameter produced aninfrasonic pitch of 37 cycles per second. This form violently shook thewalls of the entire laboratory complex, though its intensity was less than

2 watts infrasonic power.

DANGER

Not much amplitude is required for infrasound to produce physiologicalmalady. Several researchers accidentally did themselves great harmwhen, by deliberate intent or accident, they succeeded in generatinginfrasonic vibrations. Tesla used vibrating platforms as an aid to vitality.He delighted in "toning the body" with vibrational platforms of his own

design. Mounted on heavy rubber pads, these platforms were vibratedby simple motorized "eccentric" wheels.


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Their mild use, for a minute, could be pleasantly stimulating. The effectsinvigorating the whole body for hours thereafter. Excessive use wouldproduce grave illness however, excessive aggravations of the heartbeing the most dangerous aspect of the stimulation. The entire body"rang" for hours with an elevated heart rate and greatly stimulated blood

pressure. The effects could be deadly.

In one historic instance, Samuel Clemens, Tesla's close friend, refusedto descend from the vibrating platform. Tesla was sorry he had allowedhim to mount it. After repeated warnings, Tesla's concern was drownedout by both the vibrating machine and Clemens' jubilant exaltations andpraises. Several more seconds and Clemens nearly soiled his white suit,the effects of infrasound being "duly recorded".

Tesla often went to great lengths in describing the effects ofinfrasounds to newspaper reporters who, behind his back, scoffed at the

notion that a "little sound" could effect such devastations. Yet, it wasprecisely with such a "little sound" that Tesla nearly brought down hislaboratory on Houston Street. His compact infrasonic impulsers wereterribly efficient. Tesla later designed and tested infrasonic impulseweapons capable of wrecking buildings and whole cities on command.

Walt Disney and his artists were once made seriously ill when a soundeffect, intended for a short cartoon scene, was slowed down severaltimes on a tape machine and amplified through a theater sound system.The original sound source was a soldering iron, whose buzzing 60-cycletone was lowered five times to 12 cycles. This tone produced a lingeringnausea in the crew, which lasted for days.

Physiology seems to remain paralyzed by infrasound. Infrasound stimu-lates middle ear disruptions, ruining organismic equilibrium. The effectis like severe and prolonged seasickness. Infrasound immobilizes itsvictims. Restoration to normal vitality requires several hours, or evendays. Exposure to mild infrasound intensities produces illness, butincreased intensities result in death. Alarming responses to infrasoundhave been accurately recorded by military medical experts. Tolerancesfrom 40 to 100 cycles per second have been recorded by military

examiners. The results are sobering ones. As infrasonic pitchesdecrease, the deadly symptoms increase. Altered cardiac rhythms, withpulse rates rising to 40 percent of their rest values, are the precursors toother pre-lethal states. Mild nausea, giddiness, skin flushing, and bodytingling occur at 100 cycles per second. Vertigo, anxiety, extremefatigue, throat pressure, and respiratory dysfunction follow. Coughing,severe sternal pressure, choking, excessive salivation, extremeswallowing pains, inability to breathe, headache, and abdominal painoccur between 60 and 73 cycles per second. Post exposure fatigue ismarked. Certain subjects continued to cough for half an hour, whilemany continued the skin-flush manifestation for up to four hours.


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Significant visual acuity decrements are noted when humans areexposed to infrasounds between 43 and 73 cycles per second.Intelligibility scores for persons exposed, fall to a low of 77 percent theirnormal scores. Spatial orientation becomes completely distorted.Muscular coordination and equilibrium falter considerably. Depressed

manual dexterity and slurred speech have been noted before individualsblackout. Just before this point, a significant loss in intelligibility isnoted.

The findings of Dr. Gavreau in the infrasonic range between 1 and 10cycles per second are truly shocking. Lethal infrasonic pitch lies in the7-cycle range. Small amplitude increases affect human behavior in thispitch range. Intellectual activity is first inhibited, blocked, and thendestroyed. As the amplitude is increased, several disconcertingresponses had been noted. These responses begin as completeneurological interference. The action of the medulla is physiologically

blocked, its autonomic functions cease.

WATCHMEN

Infrasound clings to the ground, a phenomenon well known in theanimal world. Female vocalizations and those of their young, take theirtraceable routes through the air. High-pitched sounds are aerial innature. This makes females and young natural targets for predators.

Low-pitched tones cling to the ground, being "guided" along the soillayers. Male vocalizations cannot be localized by predators. Malesounds "hug the ground", diffusing out from their source. Some malesrumble the ground with voice and hooves. These are communicationssignals, which they alone comprehend.

The fact that the ground draws and guides low frequency tones is aremarkable gift to the animal kingdom, enhancing the survival of maleleaders. When herds are attacked by predators, the males can continueto give guidance to their companions, while remaining completely"invisible" and elusive. Predators cannot locate the voices and

rumblings of male leaders because their low-pitched signals areimpossible to pinpoint. They are therefore also impossible to attack.Predators are often overtaken by the males who maintain their diffusivecommunications across and through the ground.

The same analogies would apply to an infrasonic defense system. First,infrasound does not lose its intensity when traveling very longdistances across the ground. They remain at the same intensity as whenreleased from their deadly sources. Also, because of the groundclinging effect, infrasonic sources cannot be located without specialappliances. This would work well for those who used the weaponry of

infrasound. But suppose some hostile force were themselves usinginfrasonics?


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Infrasonics are inaudible. The battle would be over before anyone knewit had begun. How would one know of an infrasonic attack? The first lineof defense would therefore be the detection of the "unperceived enemy".The development of an adequate infrasonic weapons systems wouldfirst require an infrasound detector.

Dr. Gavreau first concentrated on developing infallible infrasonicdetectors for the personal safety of his operators as well as for eventualtactical deployment. He experimented with several designs whichfollowed the arcane analogues of old wireless detectors. One suchdesign used enclosed flames to detect infrasonic pitches. They werereminiscent of those flame detectors developed by Lee De Forest justbefore his invention of the triode. The flame detectors of Gavreauemployed variable resonant cavities. Flame amplitudes shifted withspecific infrasonic pitches. He could calibrate the infrasonic intensity aswell as the pitch with these detectors. But, flames are dangerous and

fickle, not being very reliable in battle.

Dr. Gavreau next experimented with enhanced mechanical barometers.These coupled large resonant cavities with very fine barometer tubes.They displayed great sensitivity. Steady increases in barometricpressure were registered when large cavity bellows were compressedby infrasounds. The sensitivity of these barometers increased as thebellows capacity was increased. They were adequate, but frail.

Another embodiment resembled the early mechanical television designsof John Logie Baird. It utilized large tympani skins, mirrors, lights, andphotocells. A mirror was fastened to the tympanum. A light beamflickered when infrasound struck the mirror. The photocell recordedthese flickers as an electrical signal. This detector system was veryreliable.

By far, the most advanced detectors, which Gavreau designed andtested, utilized an electrolytic process. In this analogue of systemsdeveloped by Fessenden to measure faint wireless signals, chemicalsolutions and fine wire point electrical contacts were used. Chemicalsolutions, separated by an osmotic barrier, were forced to migrate

through the barriers whenever infrasound traversed the system. Thischemical mixture was then measured as an increased electricalconductivity in a sensitive galvanometer. This system was reliable andaccurate. All of these systems suffered from one possibility. Theoffensive use of an incredible infrasonic amplitude would burst theminto vapor.

ARMOR

Claims were issued by French authorities, stating that Dr. Gavreau wasnot developing weapons at all. Several patents, however, betray this


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conspicuous smoke screen. While it is impossible to retrieve the actualpatents for the infrasonic generators, Dr. Gavreau is credited withextensive development of "infrasonic armor". Why would he "waste"such time and expense if not for an anti-weapons program?

Thus use of infrasonic weaponry necessitates the development andimplementation of infrasonic shields. Dr. Gavreau spent more timedeveloping infrasonic shields than on developing efficient infrasonichorns. Infrasound could not adequately be blocked, as Dr. Gavreaudiscovered early in his research. Infrasonic devices require extremelylarge baffles.

Furthermore, no one would dare initiate an infrasonic barrage on anyinvasive force without adequate protection. Infrasonic horns can projecttheir sounds in a given direction, but natural environments "leak"portions of the sound in all directions. Infrasounds saturate their

generators, flooding and permeating their sources in a few seconds.They "work their way back" toward those who dispatch their deadlysignals. Infrasounds "hug the ground" and spread around their sources.Unfortunately, those who would release infrasonic energy wouldthemselves be slaughtered in the very act.

The first method of Gavreau involves the conversion of infrasound intosuccessively higher pitches, until the infrasonic pitch is "lost". This wasachieved in his passive "structural" method, an enormous layeredseries of baffles and resonant cavities. This form is "passive" since itmerely stands and waits for infrasonic barrages, absorbing andconverting them into harmless audible tones.

The second method of Gavreau is more active and "aggressive". It ac-tively engages and nullifies any offensive infrasonic power. The nullifieruses a well-known physical principle for its operation. As an "active"shield, it transmits tones whose opposing wave fronts destructivelyinterfere with in coming infrasound. Infrasonic attacks are nullified, or atleast brought to much weaker levels.

This method requires high-speed detection and response systems. The

process involves determination of an attack pitch, generation of thesame, and projection of the pitch "out of phase". The active nullifiermethod is not completely accurate or protective by any means. A highlymodulated, mobile infrasonic source would be nearly impossible tosuccessfully neutralize without extremely sophisticated electronics.

But an elegantly simple approach was imagined, one which would notrequire the defender to be exposed to his own infrasonic projections.While fixated on the old notion of gun installations and stations,Gavreau and the team had momentarily forgotten their first researchendeavor. Robotics!


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THE HAMMER

Let us recall that Dr. Gavreau and his team of pioneers were in thebusiness of robotics. They developed industrial and military automatonsystems. How difficult would it have been to couple his newfound

weaponry with robotic applications? Dr. Gavreau combined the organpipe and whistle format. The device was housed in a block of concrete.It was less than a cubic meter in volume. The primary whistle waspoised within its interior. At its flared opening were placed severalresonant pipes. The device was operated by highly compressed air. Itsoutput was frightful. It was capable, in a conventional engagement, ofutterly destroying an aggressor.

This infrasound whistle design was once sealed in an 880-poundconcrete pier for tests, a concrete baffle placed over its projective end.Even with these precautions, the device succeeded in absolutelyshaking a fan-shaped portion of Marseille. It broke through itssupportive concrete pier and destroyed the baffle covering in an instant.Macabre. No sound was ever heard.

This design demonstrated great pitch selectivity, power, and directivity.In this last feature, Gavreau and his team achieved a safety factor ofgreatest value. Infrasonic defensive armaments could now be safelydirected away from the operators against any foe. This weapon was aremarkably compact and efficient device. Its efficiency was gauged bythe destructive output and the weapon volume.

A later embodiment of this terror disclosed another compact cube. Theinfrasonic whistle was presumably housed therein. Proceeding from thefront plate were some sixty pipes, flared horns aimed in deadly forwardarray. It was said that this device alone, remotely guided into anarranged artificial battlefield, burst heavy battlements and tank interiorsopen with a hideous effortlessness. In addition, several other morefrightening and unmentionable disruptions were observed with equaleffectiveness. In each, not a sound was ever heard.

The device was mounted and mobilized. A robotic vehicle. Powered by

diesel engines or compressed gas, the almost insignificant unit wouldbe a bizarre foe for an army to engage. Preliminary experiments hadproven the extreme danger of loosing infrasonic power among Gavreauand his workers. Without automatic remote control mechanisms eachtechnician would succumb to the deadly sound and die, while themachine kept broadcasting its deadly sound. As defensive weaponry,such a device would be terrible and effective. The system would be atrue deterrent for those who would be foolish enough to attempt groundassault on any nation so armed. Armies would fall flat. Once theinfrasonic horns were unleashed against the foe, the battle would noteven begin.


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Such a war engine would be impossible to locate. None who saw its sizewould believe it to contain such a lethal power. Most would overlook thedevice completely. A flood of such devices, each emanating a peculiarhighly modulated blend of infrasound, would be an unstoppable wall.Robotic tanks equipped with infrasonic generators could sweep an area

with deadly infrasound, destroying all opponents to within a five mileradius. These terrible infrasonic weapons could easily be secured indrone jets, where aerial assaults could quickly and methodically wasteany offensive approaching army.

Deterring would-be aerial attackers could be equally devastating for theoffenders. Infrasonic beacons could sweep and scan the skies with adeadly accuracy. Infrasound passes through all matter with equaleffectiveness, seeking out offenders with deadly consequence. Theintensities which the Gavreau devices effectively broadcast into theenvironment are frightening. In these devices we see the perfection of

phenomena, which never naturally occur in such dangerous intensities.This is why these weapons must be deployed by remote control,operating as automatons at great distances from their operators.

Weapons are made to defend, not to offend. In Gavreau's own words:"There does not exist complete protection against infrasound. It is notabsorbed by ordinary matter, walls and chambers do not suffice toarrest it". And so, once again, we stand at the crossroads. We are called,summoned to appear before two pathways. On the one, we hearMessaien and the musical messages of peace. On the other, Gavreauand the musical messages of war. And again we choose. And again wemust choose. Whose music will it be?

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