Long before radio became mainstream entertainment, Edgar Allen Poe was already writing for the airwaves. Throughout the last decade of his life, his poetry and prose bristled with words and phrasing ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Horror movies are a tennis match between the haunting absence of sound and ...

Researchers have shown that humans perceive approaching sounds differently than we perceive receding sounds. We overestimate how quickly the sound approaching us is moving (Neuhoff, 2001). There is ...

A Delhi woman's regular night turned into a nightmare- quite literally- after she ended up hearing rather ‘demonic noises’ from her flatmate’s room. Adding more ‘fuel to the fear’, the incident ...

Musical holds so much emotion. With one or two notes, an artist can convey a wealth of information. In the case of the three songs below, the musicians who made them inadvertently created a haunting ...