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Lore 289: Shake It

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Aaron Mahnke

True Crime, Ghost, Folklore, Legends, Supernatural, Paranormal, Lore, Monsters, Myth, History, Spooky

4.6 β€’ 46.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Folklore can take many forms, but most involve words in a specific language. One exception, though, are the traditions passed down through a very different kind of communication.

Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by GennaRose Nethercott, research by Cassandra de Alba, and music by Chad Lawson.

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But hang in there, because after this, you might just

1:29.2

change your tune. They're called Aztec death whistles and have been discovered in graves from the

1:35.0

13th to the 16th centuries, and it's worth giving these a quick Google, because their looks alone are

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startling. You see, these tiny clay instruments are designed to look like human skulls.

1:47.1

Their pupil-less eyes bulge out while fleshless teeth are spread in a messy grin.

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And that's not even mentioning what happens when these whistles are blown.

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Because here's the thing.

1:58.3

The high-pitched scream that emanates from these whistles does something

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to the human brain. That is, it fills us with instant, uncontrollable dread.

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Seriously, in 2024, a group of neuroscientists from the University of Zurich monitored

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listeners' brains upon hearing the death whistle songs, and what they found was pretty weird to say the least,

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because the brain seemed unable to classify the noise at all.

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