This Sound Was Louder Than a Blue Whale… But What Made It? 🐋

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In 1997, researchers recorded the loudest sound ever heard underwater.  It was called The Bloop — a deep, powerful sound that echoed across the Pacific Ocean... but no known creature or machine could’ve made it.  Some say it came from a massive iceberg. Others believe it was something still undiscovered… or perhaps not from this world at all.  What do you think made The Bloop?  🔔 Subscribe for more real, mysterious facts every week.  #TheBloop #OceanMysteries #UnsolvedSounds

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00:00In 1997, deep in the Pacific Ocean, scientists recorded a sound unlike anything ever heard before.

00:07It was ultra-low, deep, and incredibly loud. Loud enough to be heard over 5,000 kilometers away.

00:14They called it the blue. It didn't match any submarine, whale, or geological activity known

00:20to science. Some believed it was a creature larger than a blue whale. Others suggested

00:25something far stranger. Even now, no one can explain exactly what made the sound. The

00:30ocean still holds its secrets.

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