At various coastal places around the world, explosive sounds like distant artillery are

heard booming in from way out over the water.

The most famous of these are called the Seneca guns, hammering away over Seneca Lake in

New York.

What kind of artillery or explosions could be going on in these places, sometimes for hundreds

of years, but with nobody ever finding a source for them?

Seneca guns are up next, Unscuptoid.

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You're listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, The Mystery of the

Seneca Guns.

It comes as a sudden and jolting din, an explosive boom rumbling from the distance.

Sometimes faint, sometimes as jarring as if a cannon had just fired a block away.

They're called The Seneca Guns.

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