Author Denver Michaels

When I arrived in Moodus, Connecticut in early-May 2022, I was surprised when a friend texted me an article from the New England Historical Society. The piece was titled “The Mysterious Moodus Noises of Connecticut,” and recounted the history of strange, unexplained noises that occur around the village of Moodus. The Moodus Noises I read the article at once. I couldn't believe that I had stumbled upon a place renowned for strange activity. According to the article: The Wangunk Indians had told the colonists of the fearful noises that they tried to appease. In fact, the Indians called the land around Mt. Tom “Machemoodus,” meaning place of bad noises. The settlers shortened the name to Moodus, now a village in East Haddam. Once Puritans moved to the area in the early-1700s, they heard the noises, too. And they, too, attributed the sounds to a supernatural source. The superstitious Puritans believed God was angry with them for their sins. Meanwhile, the local Indians believed the...

Since roughly 2005, folks have reported hearing the eerie sound of "sky trumpets." In 2015, the phenomenon began receiving widespread attention and reporting. In my home state of Virginia, reports of sky trumpets come from Virginia Beach , Prince William County, Gloucester County, southwestern Virginia and more. According to the New York Post, The Guardian, and other news outlets, there was an uptick of trumpet sounds in 2020, especially from places affected by harsh Covid-19 lockdowns. Some call the strange noises the “sound of the apocalypse” after the Seven Trumpets in the Book of Revelation. Are the unexplained sky trumpets a precursor to the doomsday predictions in the Bible? The Seven Seals In the Book of Revelation, Jesus Christ opens the “Seven Seals.” When he opens the first six seals, some sort of calamity occurs on Earth. For instance, when he opens the first four seals, the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” appear. The first horseman is the Antichrist who rides ...

It was not until 2013 that I started paying attention to reports of so-called "mystery booms." In fact, I did not know this was a phenomenon until I heard a guest discuss it on a late-night AM radio talk show. The guest gave details from cases all over the country in which strange booms had occurred, all without a known cause. From 2013 until now, it seems these strange occurrences have been taking place with far greater frequency and intensity. It just so happens that my home state of Virginia —especially central Virginia and the Tidewater region —is a hotspot for mystery booms. In 1997, the Virginian-Pilot ran a story about a mystery boom that residents from Norfolk to Suffolk heard; slight tremors accompanied the noise. However, it was not an earthquake that caused the tremors or noise. According to the article: Dr. James Coble, associate professor of geology at Tidewater Community College, said the cause of the trembling probably was not an earthquake. “I looked at ...