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A relatively new, weird phenomenon is going on right now. Trumpet-ish sounds are being heard the world over. Nobody knows what is causing the strange sound as yet, but they were especially reported all along the route of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade a few months ago. Nobody knows what the source is, though. It’s a real stumper.

We made up the Macy’s thing – but not the weird trumpet sounds thing. That actually is happening, according to baffled witnesses.

We’ll explain it all on the next page.

You can throw this one up in the same column as the mysterious Taos Hum. The Taos Hum is more of a dull, constant rumble. The noise we’re talking about now actually sounds, according to the video below, like a horn blasting in the distance.

As we’re pretty sure this signifies the end of everything you’ve ever known and loved, we just thought you might like a little advanced warning. Here’s a reader submitted splurb on the trumpet noises as found in a section of the Unexplained-Mysteries.com website. It sums up the religious paranoia that seems to overlay this whole thing ((Sics) all throughout, incidentally):

“Hello all, so im most of the time pretty skeptic and all but, I’ve been watching some youtube videos and sites, and it seems that there are alot of reports of an Humming or very low trumpet sound ( demonic kinda sounds )… these sounds are all over the world they say, from moskou to texas and holland, finland. and so on…. some people also say its from the bible, these trumpet noises seem to resemble something. but i am not a christian, i do not believe in god. but i can’t tell either if that is not the case”

Are you worried now? Is the noise freaking you out because you don’t know what it is? Well then, before you lose any sleep let us fill you in. Don’t worry – it’s not God preparing your destruction. It’s alien technology. We suppose you’re one of those who needs to see the source before believing outlandish claims. We found this little gem in the comment section of thetruthbehindthescenes.org:

“These sounds are created by teleportation equipment. The name of the alien race making these noises is the Arcturians. Go to http://www.youtube.com/user/atlanticobr to learn more.”

Better to rot in an intergalactic zoo than hell, though, right? We certainly think so. At least in the zoo you’d get three squares a day and all the visitors you could ever want. In hell you’d get nothing but heat rash on your melting skin.

Whatever it the noise is, we don’t know. Here’s a video of the sound though. It does sound quite trumpetty. Maybe too trumpetty, actually. We’ll let you be the judge.