Is this a bird or somebody being drowned?
It seemed so innocent: i had bought two vinyl records with sounds of birds around the Naardermeer, a national park in the Netherlands, with birds like the cuckoo, black and common tern, and..the great crested grebe. I switch on my record player, put the needle on the record, but instead of hearing the great crested grebe i hear this:
What is this? This can’t possibly be a grebe? It sounds more like a man who is being killed by drowning. I searched the internet for how a grebe should sound like, but all that i found are recordings that sound pretty normal.
But if this isn’t a bird, what is it then? Did somebody accidentally switch the master tapes for a radio play (‘Murder on the Titanic’) for the tapes of the bird recordings? Or would it be a bad joke from somebody who likes to scare bird lovers? Do you have any ideas?
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Placed on Sunday 14-01-2007 -
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8 comments on “Is this a bird or somebody being drowned?”
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Dirk wrote:
Wellicht een evp?
check wiki : evp
Wednesday 17-01-2007
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needle park wrote:
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Wednesday 23-04-2008
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record player needles wrote:
[...] on the record, but instead of hearing the great crested grebe i hear something that sounds like ahttp://www.haykranen.nl/2007/01/14/is-this-a-bird-or-somebody-being-drowned/Gramophone record – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEventually, they were replaced by the [...]
Friday 02-05-2008
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CARISPRODOL information. » CARISPRODOL.NET wrote:
[...] that sounds like a man screaming as if he is drowning. Is this really a bird? Very weird…read more | digg [...]
Thursday 22-05-2008
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grebe wrote:
[...] on the record, but instead of hearing the great crested grebe i hear something that sounds like ahttp://www.haykranen.nl/2007/01/14/is-this-a-bird-or-somebody-being-drowned/Latest on states endangered list: Ten species are much safer, but fifteen now in trouble Foster’s [...]
Thursday 10-07-2008
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grebe wrote:
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Thursday 10-07-2008
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recordings of bird sounds wrote:
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Saturday 02-08-2008
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Anonymous wrote:
Sounds to me like it’s being played back at the wrong speed.
Monday 08-03-2010
