Welcome to Unexplained Extra with me Richard McClane smith. For the weeks in between episodes, we look at the stories that, for one reason or other, didn't make it into the show. In last week's episode, What Hides Beneath, we looked at the infamous K two one nine incident and wandered at the many mysteries of the vast ocean deep. Some believe a mysterious underwater sound known as a quacker may hold the key to discovering what happened to the ill fated
nuclear submarine. Thought to be the call of a large, undiscovered sea creature, or even a submersible alien spacecraft, the quacker is fast becoming a regular fixture in modern maritime folklore, but you may not be surprised to hear it is only one of many strange sounds to have been recorded from the depths of the planet's oceans, and there is one sound in particular that has given rise to some
of the most terrifying theories around. Picked up by hydrophones deep in the Pacific, the sound, known as the Blue may yet prove the most extraordinary of them all. As the world slipped from the waking horrors of the Second World War into the murkier dimensions of the Cold War, the United States Navy were looking for the next opportunity to gain the upper hand. As a result, the Committee for Undersea Warfare was established in nineteen forty nine, with
its primary objective to neutralize any possible underwater threat. Knowing that sound travels more than four times faster and further in water than it does in air, the solution was simple. A monitoring system was created whereby a vast array of underwater microphones dotted about the North Atlantic would be trained to pick up the tell tale low frequency hum of
a submarine. The system was an unmitigated success, but what they hadn't planned for with the extraordinary array of sounds that didn't match those of a submarine or in fact anything that had been heard before. After the establishment of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also known as NOAH in nineteen seventy, the Navy's hydrophones were co opted into
a vast government research program. Over the years, the program, which focuses on the conditions of the ocean and the atmosphere of the Earth, has recorded many incredible sounds from the communication of whales to the ominous rumbles of volcanic tremors. However, in nineteen ninety seven, a set of microphones from the Equatorial Pacific Ocean region detected a sound that was like no other recorded before, picked up just west of the
southern tip of South America. Here is the recording of the sound, sped up by sixteen times to make it more audible. Noah scientist doctor Christopher Fox was under no illusions about the origins of such a sound, primarily that it was not man made, but also that it was organic in nature, possibly even that of an animal. The
suggestion was staggering. If the sound was indeed animal in nature, it would belong to a creature the likes of which we have never seen before, With the sound being several times louder than any marine creature previously recorded, whatever was making it would be several times larger than the blue whale. However, any question of a huge, unknown sea creature lurking in the deep has since been dismissed by Noah and Oregon
State University seismologist Robert Zayak. Speaking to Wide Magazine in two thousand and twelve, he explained the sound was an actual fact. The noise created by the cracking and melting of sea ice. And yet not everybody has been wholly satisfied by the explanation. And there is one suggestion that has since caught the public imagination. Are you always taking care of your family? Do you often take care of others and not yourself? Now it's time to take care
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a creature like nothing before seen on this Earth. A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long narrow wings behind Cluloo, one of the great old ones. Could this creature, drawn from the darkest corner of H. P. Lovecraft's mind, be the true source of
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