A mysterious underwater noise recorded in 1997, the “Bloop,” fuelled years of speculation about megalodon and other undiscovered giants. But NOAA’s long-running investigation eventually traced the ...

In 1997, the Bloop was heard on hydrophones across the Pacific. It was a loud, ultra-low frequency sound that was heard at listening stations underwater over 5,000km apart, and one of many mysterious ...

As Ireland's Dara Ó Briain once joked on YouTube, "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it'd stop." The world is full of mysteries to solve and curious subjects to study, and no part of ...

After 15 long years, scientists have finally found an explanation for the creepy undersea "bloop" noise recorded in the 1990s by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The NOAA ...

Deep within the Southern Pacific waters, the eerie silence is interrupted by some strange, elusive sounds that travel through the body of the ocean. In 2002, oceanographer Christopher Fox was staring ...

In the summer of 1997, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration picked up a sound from deep beneath the Pacific. The sound seemed to come from an animal far larger than any we’ve ever ...

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn (In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming) H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu This unpronounceable phrase is familiar to all readers of ...