From an auditory perspective, the reason we react swiftly to eerie sounds is that the auditory system processes information ...

A familiar sound echoes through the farmlands of Jamestown every October, not roaring tractors or a whistle of wind through trees and open fields, but screaming. The eerie sound begins around sundown ...

“Just think about something that you’d really like to release, something that’s been bothering you,” says John Hueste, co-leader of the D.C. chapter of Scream Club — an extracurricular group that ...

When the Aztecs dominated central Mexico, a blood-curdling sound like a human scream played through a small whistle. Luis Aceves via Unsplash In cultures around the world, instruments have brought ...