Waterphone: The Sound That Haunts Hollywood

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

One eerie sound has been haunting Hollywood movies — from Poltergeist to Jurassic Park to Let the Right One In — and 14 seasons of Unsolved Mysteries. ELT tracks down the source of the scary sound. Guests: Rayme Waters, daughter of the spookiest sound in Hollywood’s inventor; percussionist Emil Richards; composer Gary Malkin. Thanks to caller Marianna. Thanks also to Brooks Hubbert, who runs the waterphone business, and musician Lee Charlton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You have reached the Every Little Thing Helpline.
0:05.0	Please leave your message after the tone.
0:08.0	Hi, Flora, this is Mariana.
0:11.0	I've been watching old episodes of Unsolved Mysteries and there's this weird sound in it that's just kind of
0:18.7	Chilly I just really want to know why is this so spooky and what the heck kind of instrument is making it.
0:27.0	I hope you know the answer to this or you know people who know it. It.
0:33.0	Hello.
0:37.0	Hey this is Flora from every little thing, calling you back about the spooky sound effect.
0:42.0	Hey! Oh, uh... calling you back about the spooky sound effect.
0:42.6	Hey!
0:43.2	I'm also hearing a sound effect in the background.
0:48.4	Yeah, so I have a baby.
0:51.0	She's about five months old and she just ate and she was in such a good mood and now she has
0:56.3	hiccups and so that's kind of the soundtrack of my life right now is these little
1:01.0	hiccups. Do you want to play her the spooky sound you called about to see if we can scare him out of her?
1:07.0	I'm not into torturing, but...
1:10.0	What's her name?
1:11.0	Her name is Suzette, and we call her Susie.
1:14.0	Okay, great. Well, maybe I'll ask her a question here and there.
1:17.0	Okay.
1:18.0	Okay. Mariana, you called about a sound that you heard on unsolved mysteries.
1:22.0	So we began our investigation with the primary source.
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