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Sonic WeaponsAn acoustic weapon disorients rioters and afflicts aninvading army with nausea. It can create ghosts and

arouse animal passions. Fantastic? Jack Sargeant, delving

into the possible uses and abuses of infrasound, isnt so

sure. Additional material by David Sutton.

By Jack Sargeant December 2001

The human ear can only hear a limited part of the sound spectrum.

Above that range is ultrasound and below it is infrasound; althoughlargely unheard, vibrations in these ranges can still affect the humanbody in ways that are quite different from the informational aspect ofsimply listening. These higher and lower registers of sound frequenciesare, today, the stuff of imaginative speculation. While the conspiracywatchers believe they are the basis of secret weapons research forcovert operations, mind control and other conspiratorial uses, another,more idealistic, school associates them with meditative states andmagical technology. The wilder fortean literature attributes to thebuilders of ancient monuments everywhere the secret of levitatingblocks of stone by their mastery of sound; such powers were

supposedly also used by the Vedic gods to power their vimana flyingships.

The use of disconcerting noise to unsettle the enemy is hardwired intomost higher animals, from the warnings and battle roars ofconfrontational beasts to the trumpets, drums, bugles, bagpipes,devilish war cries, taunts and piercing shrieks used by humans in theirconflicts. An example that springs to mind is that of Lieutenant ColonelKilgore in Apocalypse Now!, blasting Wagner from his Cavalryhelicopters. And, moving from film to recent history, consider how

General Noriega was bombarded with endless cycles of high-volumepop music when he sought refuge in the Vatican Embassy in Panama,as were the Branch Davidians during the fateful siege at theircompound in Waco.1

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