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Not the first time or the first place for this to happen...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44550343/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/mysterious-booming-sounds-perplex-scientists/

1 posted on 03/21/2012 6:28:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin

2 posted on 03/21/2012 6:30:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)

carrie antflinger? lisa kuss? what is this, the town that inspired The Far Side?

And isn't wisconsin the place where an entire town blew up or something a hundred years ago? Strange place.

4 posted on 03/21/2012 6:40:06 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...well, half-right, at least.)

I heard about this on the radio today.
How odd.

5 posted on 03/21/2012 6:42:46 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)

It wasn’t me! Honest!

9 posted on 03/21/2012 6:59:57 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)

Almost certainly auroral activity, as any one who has read Robert Service's "Ballad of the Northern Lights" can tell you. Sound has long been associated with the Borealis, though it's by no means it's most striking feature.

14 posted on 03/21/2012 7:17:40 PM PDT by Prospero

15 posted on 03/21/2012 7:32:40 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)

It says in Leviticus 18:27-29: If you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

This may be a harbinger of things to come.

16 posted on 03/21/2012 7:34:15 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!)

the Catskill Mountains that Seneca Lake is located within do host low-level earthquake activity

And the booming sounds have been heard there for centuries, at least according to the tale of Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. As you'll recall, Rip came upon some ghostly Dutchmen said to be Henry Hudson's ship's crew playing 9-pins accompanied by deafening sounds when they rolled the ball. After drinking their liquor Rip passed out and slept for 20 years. Returning to town he re-told the story of his strange adventure many times.

Writes Irving: "Some always pretended to doubt the reality of it, and insisted that Rip had been out of his head, and that this was one point on which he always remained flighty.

"The old Dutch inhabitants, however, almost universally gave it full credit. Even to this day they never hear a thunderstorm of a summer afternoon about the Kaatskill, but they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of nine-pins; and it is a common wish of all hen-pecked husbands in the neighborhood, when life hangs heavy on their hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of Rip Van Winkle's flagon."

18 posted on 03/21/2012 8:02:25 PM PDT by Bernard Marx

CLINTONVILLE, Wis.

Come on people, put two and two together.............Just saying.

20 posted on 03/21/2012 8:27:27 PM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)

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