Before us is one of the "freshest" terrible urban legends in America. An amazing story was told 3 years ago by a user of the popular social network "Reddit" under the pseudonym bingbong1234. A man living in the capital of Michigan, Lansing, claims that the phenomenon he describes is frightening, inexplicable and 100% real. In support of his words, the narrator posted a video, which captured the ominous phenomenon, which will be discussed.
So, bingbong1234 reports that he was 8 years old when he first encountered Lansing's Phantom Whistler, as he later named it. The boy and his mother were walking the dog late at night. According to our hero, his family lives on the outskirts of the city near swamps and forests.
During that walk, the Americans suddenly heard a quiet sound coming from the bogs and similar to a whistle. So, for example, people who are bored whistle. Nevertheless, there was also something incomprehensible in this sound: it became quieter and louder, higher and lower, and also shimmered somehow strangely. The impression was that an ordinary person could not whistle like that.
The mother of our hero, hearing this, suddenly became worried and hurried to take her son home. After some time, the boy forgot about this incident, but everything repeated after 2 years. The 10-year-old American was walking the dog late at night again, though now without a mother, and again heard a mysterious sound.
Lansing's Phantom Whistler
Before us is one of the "freshest" terrible urban legends in America. An amazing story was told 3 years ago by a user of the popular social network "Reddit" under the pseudonym bingbong1234. A man living in the capital of Michigan, Lansing, claims that the phenomenon he describes is frightening, inexplicable and 100% real. In support of his words, the narrator posted a video, which captured the ominous phenomenon, which will be discussed.
So, bingbong1234 reports that he was 8 years old when he first encountered Lansing's Phantom Whistler, as he later named it. The boy and his mother were walking the dog late at night. According to our hero, his family lives on the outskirts of the city near swamps and forests.
During that walk, the Americans suddenly heard a quiet sound coming from the bogs and similar to a whistle. So, for example, people who are bored whistle. Nevertheless, there was also something incomprehensible in this sound: it became quieter and louder, higher and lower, and also shimmered somehow strangely. The impression was that an ordinary person could not whistle like that.
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The mother of our hero, hearing this, suddenly became worried and hurried to take her son home. After some time, the boy forgot about this incident, but everything repeated after 2 years. The 10-year-old American was walking the dog late at night again, though now without a mother, and again heard a mysterious sound.
According to bingbong1234, there was a large bush not far from the parental home, behind which a person could easily hide if he wanted to. When our hero returned from a walk, he heard a whistle from there. Someone whistled there in the same unusual way: it seemed like a human being, but it seemed like not. A chill immediately ran down the teenager's spine, and the guy rushed into the house with lightning speed. It is noteworthy that both times his dog did not react in any way to what was happening.
The phantom whistler reappears, but in a different place
Many years have passed, now the narrator must be about 27 years old. The video below he received in 2015, when he went with his girlfriend to the city of Pierre (South Dakota). It was July and the USA celebrated Independence Day. Our hero and his girlfriend decided to go in the evening to the Missouri River to watch the fireworks from there. A storm was approaching, and lightning flashed in the sky, but the bad weather did not prevent the local vacationers from having fun.
When the fireworks went off, bingbong1234 pulled out his smartphone to capture them on video. Imagine the surprise of our hero when he suddenly heard nearby that quiet mysterious whistle from his childhood, which he had already forgotten about! This whistle could not be confused with anything else.
The man came to a real shock, but continued to shoot what was happening on a mobile camera. Alas, the source of the sound could not be found. The girl was also taken aback by this sound, especially when her boyfriend told her about events from his past.
According to bingbong1234, he cannot find a rational explanation for what happened. The man only suggests that the creepy Phantom Whistler somehow inexplicably found him after all these years in a completely different state of America. The American asked other Reddit users to help him solve this mystery.
Versions of the reasons for what happened
Many regulars on the Web, of course, thought that this was a supernatural phenomenon. In some cultures, there are just beliefs about whistling mystical entities. So, in Colombia and Venezuela, the legend of the so-called El Silbon is widely known.
El Silbon is considered a restless spirit, looking like a tall, thin man with a wide-brimmed hat and a bag of human bones on his shoulder. The ghost whistles quietly and enters other people's houses at night to count the contents of his bag. It is believed that if you hear, or even more so see him, then great misfortunes will certainly befall you. Conversely, if you do not notice how El Silbon visits your home, then good luck awaits you.
Skeptics say that bingbong1234 simply takes for an ominous human whistle, in reality, the singing of some night bird. However, why does this mystical whistle-singing haunt him and no one else, otherwise on the Internet the Internet would immediately find at least a dozen people who experience (have experienced in their lives) the same thing. But this did not happen …