Dangerous Harmonics - L.A. Hilden

Throughout history, sound has been used to intimidate and induce fear, from war drums and trumpets on a battlefield to the 1992 patent of the S-quad. In my next time travel book, authoritarian governments work on a series of attacks to annihilate and subjugate the people. Knowing specific harmonics can cause permanent brain damage to a person, I’m focusing my article on harmonics this month. Different pitches of sound can cause a variety of effects. The electronic pest repellers and dog bark deterrents emit ultrasonic noise to drive off pests or stop barking. Although these devices don’t work, and the companies selling them undergo numerous lawsuits, they usually range below 100 kHz. Ultrasonic noise is a level above human hearing, but according to the National Institute of Health, being exposed to ultrasonic noise can cause headaches, ear ringing, nausea, etc. When exposed to a low frequency of 20 Hz, people are often not even aware. Low frequencies can travel across long distances, unlike higher frequencies. At the right frequency, duration, and amplitude, health is affected. If listening to loud sounds at a concert, the body may vibrate, in turn causing an adverse reaction like nausea. Everyone reacts differently to sound waves.

People can sense sound frequencies between 20 and 20,000 Hz, although this range shrinks with age. Sounds of 20 kHz and higher are referred to as ultrasound. High frequencies are over 16 kHz and hardly heard. The most dangerous is the inaudible, low-frequency sound or infrasound of 7 Hz because it’s the frequency of the median alpha-rhythm of the brain and heart. Since this is the resonant frequency of the body’s organs, at high volumes, infrasound can disturb heart or brain activity. It can affect the central nervous system and cause disorientation, anxiety, panic, bowel spasms, nausea, vomiting, and even organ rupture or death from prolonged exposure. Infrasound waves can also damage buildings. People have, and continue to, weaponize audio harmonics. There are various types of sonic and ultrasonic weapons. These weapons are used to incapacitate, injure, or kill a target.

In 1957, Vladimir Gavreau began an experiment to create low-frequency acoustics into an audio weapon for the French military. Gavreau and his team tested the devices on themselves at a Marseilles research plant. One of his team members died instantly as his internal organs ruptured and turned to mush by the vibrations, while others were sick for hours. The only admitted audio weapon ever deployed was by the German military during WWII. The Luftkanon was a sound weapon designed to shoot down enemy craft with a sound vortex, but it didn’t have much success.

Psychological Warfare

During WWII, the U.S. Army had a division called the Ghost Army involved with sonic deception. They used loud speakers on the battlefield to create a false impression. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army had a division of psychological operations called Wandering Soul. They mounted speakers on a helicopter and simulated Buddhist chants and sounds of old ancestors of the Viet Cong fighters speaking to them. The U.S. used sonic torture on Guantanamo Bay prisoners with loud music. The most effective was “I Love You” by Barney the Purple Dinosaur. Heavy metal music also produced the desired psychological effect of weakening the detainees’ mental state.

In 2005, international newspapers reported that the Israeli air force used “sonic bombs” in the Gaza Strip. Sonic booms have a high-volume and deep-frequency effect of low-flying airplanes. The victims of the attack were shaken as windows shattered, and they were left with nose bleeds, ear pain, anxiety, sleeplessness, and hypertension. (Goodman, Steve)

Scientists continue to study the ecology of vibrational effects for militarization. According to Steve Goodman, author of Sonic Warfare, “Sound has a seductive power to caress the skin, to immerse, to soothe, beckon, and heal, to modulate brain waves and massage the release of certain hormones within the body. Discussion of the physiological effects of sonic weaponry has usually centered on intensity (acoustic power), the ultrasonic or the infrasonic; the very loud, the very high pitched, and the very low pitched. At high sound pressure levels, the ear is directly damaged. Need we be reminded that noise, like anything else that touches you, can be a source of both pleasure and pain and that “beyond a certain limit, it becomes an immaterial weapon of death.”

The United States has a sonic weapon called the Long Range Acoustic Device. To read more on the LRAD: https://www.lahilden.com/index.php?categoryid=6&p2_articleid=233

There is a U.S. Patent #5,159,703 called Silent Subliminal System, dated October 27, 1992. This is a mind-altering mechanism based on subliminal carrier technology called the “S-quad” or “squad.” It was developed by Dr. Oliver Lowery of Norcross, Georgia. The patent reads: “A silent communications system in which nonaural carriers, in the very low or very high audio-frequency range or in the adjacent ultrasonic frequency spectrum are amplitude- or frequency-modulated with the desired intelligence and propagated acoustically or vibrationally, for inducement into the brain, typically through the use of loudspeakers, earphones, or piezoelectric transducers. The modulated carriers may be transmitted directly in real time or may be conveniently recorded and stored on mechanical, magnetic, or optical media for delayed or repeated transmission to the listener.” According to Silent Sounds, Inc., it’s possible for supercomputers to analyze human emotional EEG patterns, replicate them, and store them for later use to change the emotional state in another person. According to the letter written in December of 1996 by Edward Tilton, President of Silent Sounds, Inc., “All schematics, however, have been classified by the U.S. Government and we are not allowed to reveal the exact details… …we make tapes and CDs for the German Government, even the former Soviet Union countries! All with the permission of the U.S. State Department, of course… The system was used throughout Operation Desert Storm (Iraq) quite successfully.”

In 2016-17, twenty-five Americans who worked in the U.S. Embassy in Cuba suffered serious brain injuries which caused impaired vision, memory loss, and other persistent problems. In 2017, fifteen Americans in China suffered similar symptoms and unexplained brain trauma. Investigations into these attacks led some scientists to believe a directed pulsed radio frequency energy was used, which is a high-powered microwave system weapon, but a sonic weapon with acoustic signals is also possible. According to bioelectromagnetic researcher James Lin, a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, “People are in the same room, [and] some people don’t hear it; some people hear it. How would you target it? It has to be a beam of microwaves.” It was discovered in 1961 that people could hear microwaves. “These micropulses are quite different from the nearly continuous waves that heat food in a microwave oven, he said. The itsy-bitsy — but very rapid — temperature change they generate expands the water in the tissues of the head enough to generate vibrations — an acoustic wave. This acoustic wave then travels through the soft tissue into the denser bone, which transmits the wave to the inner ear. From there, the sound wave is transformed into a nerve impulse, in the same way typical acoustic sounds are.” According to Lin, if an intense microwave beam was aimed at a radar dish, it could generate a wave inside the head to damage brain tissue or the inner ear. Unfortunately, the findings are inconclusive. Although some heard sounds, no one felt the heat, so the explanations as to what occurred in these events are iffy.

If a person is exposed to 177 decibels sound waves at 0.5 to 8 Hz, it can affect your lungs, breathing, and shake your bones. Short-term exposure to these waves would cause joint damage, while chronic exposure could include nausea and visual impairment. High-frequency sound can be traumatic for hearing and health. A sound frequency of 37 Hz can cause pulmonary and stomach disorders. A frequently heard sound of 16Hz disturbs the stomach and can cause fear, anxiety, and fatigue. In a car driving at 62MPH, the sound generated is 16 Hz, which is one of the reasons long car trips are so tiring. The infrasound wave structure can go around barriers and occur from far away.

Outside sound waves disperse and dissipate quickly. Machines, storms, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc., all generate infrasound. Animals often feel infrasound in advance, usually 10-15 hours before the storm, which gives them time to prepare. Sheep will huddle together, bees return to their nests, elephants head to higher ground, and whales swim further out to sea as some animals perceive infrasound.

Just as there are harmful frequencies, there are also healing frequencies.