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Spooky Sounds: The secrets of horror sound design

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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How Do Animals Respond to Sounds With Fear?

Dan Blumstein is a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. He studies how humans and other animals react to sounds with fear. It all started when he got to scare himself while working with Marmot's. The screams, it turns out, are calls that are emitted when animals are in dire straits.

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