Creaking Floorboards & Sounds of The Past

[cronus]

Live in a old house, must be a hundred and fifty years or more. The bathroom has these floorboards that creak...especially. Thing is when the conditions are right - dull rainy days or late in the evening the creaks sound like human speech. I've heard of clay pots recording sounds from hundreds of years gone by and I've got a feeling this is a similar process rather than my mind playing tricks. Can easily imagine a complex structure like wood grain absorbing sound patterns and storing them for a rainy day - although the precise mechanism is most likely more complex than my back of a envelope conjecture. Anyone else had this happen or anything related that could identify a interesting discovery of lost embedded sounds etc?

[JimC]

A lovely romantic idea, to be sure...

The accumulation of random factors would quickly overwhelm any possibility of such recording...

[Hermit]

I've heard of clay pots recording sounds from hundreds of years gone by and I've got a feeling this is a similar process rather than my mind playing tricks. Can easily imagine a complex structure like wood grain absorbing sound patterns and storing them for a rainy day

Next: Chemtrails, mermaids and anything David Icke and the "Above Top Secret" forum can dish up.

What is this thread doing in the General Serious Discussion & Philosophy section? Don't we have a WTF department for this sort of thing?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It's called "The Pub".

[cronus]

It's called "The Pub".

It's serious for this forum....serious is a relative term.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It's called "The Pub".

It's serious for this forum....serious is a relative term.

Well, I'm not one of your relatives.

[cronus]

It's called "The Pub".

It's serious for this forum....serious is a relative term.

Well, I'm not one of your relatives.

They all say that.

[charlou]

A lovely romantic idea, to be sure...

It kinda is, in a weird way.

It mighy make for an interesting theme in a novel .. and could be given any kind of genre spin you like, but staying away from the more obvious/tedious supernatural based chiller and going with some kind of atmospheric evocative insightful allegory would interest me more, I think.

Unless it's already been done ..? Would be surprised if not, really.

[Audley Strange]

I've seen The Stone Tapes Crump. Weather now Nigel Kneale, are you stylising doomsaying to be banal and retro or have you been listening to The Focus Group?

[cronus]

I get it all from a traumatic experience concerning a childhood TV prog in the seventies where there was this haunted house.....and in a cupboard, in a box.....a skull. Freaked me out for months. Hence you all suffer because of some sad TV dramatist whose probably suffering with dementia in a old folks home now if he's alive at all.

[Audley Strange]

What show was this? Tell me more.

[cronus]

What show was this? Tell me more.

If I could recall I'd research it on Youtube(or maybe not).

[Audley Strange]

Any more recollections from this show? Live action? Was it a kids show or something you as a kid witnessed. I say this because I had a similar experience with Sapphire and Steel, in that a part of it had lodged in my memory as some separate other worldly horror thing I'd witnessed.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Any more recollections from this show? Live action? Was it a kids show or something you as a kid witnessed. I say this because I had a similar experience with Sapphire and Steel, in that a part of it had lodged in my memory as some separate other worldly horror thing I'd witnessed.

David McCallum's haircut?

[Trinity]

Any more recollections from this show? Live action? Was it a kids show or something you as a kid witnessed. I say this because I had a similar experience with Sapphire and Steel, in that a part of it had lodged in my memory as some separate other worldly horror thing I'd witnessed.

Wow! That programme fascinated me and frightened me at the same time. I have a longing now and then for a reminder (a masochistic yearning!) of how thrilling it was. I particularly remember the one (or two,I think it may have been a two-parter) about the soldier who whistled "pack up your troubles".
The Prisoner had a similar effect on me-the ominous balloon ball thing that was evil inanimate