Fun fact: the tripod noises were based on the Carnyx, a horn that the celts would play before battle to terrify their enemies. Something similar to the tripod sound is the last thing many real people ever heard.
Step one: buy a bunch of very powerful speakers Step two: set up the speakers a mile away from a small town in the middle of nowhere. Step 3: play this full blast for about 10 minutes at one o'clock in the morning. Step 4: pack up the speakers and drive away, saying nothing to no one. Step *5*:tune into the local news station to witness pandemonium.
Nah, the thing to do is have you and 5 of your best friends all set up speakers in the back of a bunch of pickup trucks, and go to different places around the edge of town
What i find terrifying is the fact that they can work underwater, i can't imagine going down in the deep abyss and seeing/hearing one of these things, absolutely terrifying.
Better be glad that their only means of flight is to just crash into the planet like asteroids. They’re stuck to walking and going underwater then, i guess the only way they move to other planets is by other carrier ships scooping them up when the invasion is done
I think the scariest part is that their legs can literally reach the bottom of the ocean meaning that they are friggin huge not only length but height wise
As someone with phonophobia, this is surprisingly incredible. I’d thought myself to have panicked and huddled in my bed for a couple hours like I do when a siren goes off, but I can’t _stop_ listening to this. It’s horrifically fascinating.
I love how it sounds robotic, but also animalistic like an extremely large monster. It also sounds like a creepy trumpet like the one them religious folks talk about during the apocalypse which makes this even more scarier.
It also almost sounds industrial, like an alarm or a shift call (there's a theory about how those sounds are used to communicate to other tripods that they found populated areas)
@@jesuslovesyou83558 People have been saying stuff like that years, decades and centuries ago. And some people will continue to say stuff like that for the years, decades and centuries to come.
Humanity is going to be the *BEST* at making intimidating first impressions if we ever start galactic conquests. Blaring this from giant loudspeakers to essentially say *GIVE US YOUR SPACE OIL*
ok... you were doing good, till you got to the "give us your space oil" bit. i would say one of 2 things 1): "YOU HAVE DAYS TO GIVE IN TO US IF YOU WANT TO LIVE" 2): "HOW'S YOUR HEALTH? GOOD? GREAT!"
It’s a dark night in a thunderstorm… you are getting ready for bed. You hear this blare in your face and you scream for your life. Your sibling comes out the corner chuckling and pauses the audio. Then you hear it again… *only louder.*
This just makes me want a War of the Worlds survival game where your constantly being hunted by roaming Tripods and have to contend with other survivors. Imagine desperately searching a house, you have little ammo, your injured, and then you hear that siren.
I had a dream about tripods today. I was at my school, communicating with my friend via video call, and on the call I could hear a tripod. The dream ended when a robot helper was approaching from where I hid.
I highly recommend reading the book from the late 1800s. It's kind of neat to see what was considered technologically advanced. The book describes the tripods more like big cylinders with a lid that literally screws on with giant 2 foot long screws. The akiens themselves have massive eyes, tentacles, and a v shaped mouth. Most fan art I've seen makes them look like squid things with huge eyes and a beak looking mouth.
Or they could not find it intimidating, kind of how those small frogs try to make a fearsome roar but instead it just shows as cute because of their size.
Judas new tactic, put tiny fog horns on big ass battleships, then go into fog near enemy, blow horn, enemy think it tiny ship, then, big ship fuck their day up
TheSatiricalDemon lol ikr these fuckers invent crazy technology , invade another planet and develop the most fucking eerie sound ever ; yet don’t even think about getting the common cold 😂😂😂👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽 that ☑️s out
I Was a Teenage TeenWolf Not really. How did this extremely advanced alien civilization have the knowledge to traverse the stars, but fail to account for the planet that they were invading bacterial history among many other obvious things? It’s almost as dumb as the aliens in signs not knowing that the earth was mostly water despite being able to clearly see that shit from space.
@@apricotmadness4850 No clue, really. But it's not so much they didn't know disease but rather they didn't know OUR diseases. It could also be that they lived in such a sterile environment that a sneeze could have killed them ( there is a condition in humans triggered by not being exposed to diseases and this building an immunity. Ironically, being removed from disease can also make you sick. It's why playing in dirt as a kid is encouraged to a degree.)
@@apricotmadness4850 İt would'nt be the *normal* diseases that wiped out the exterrestrial invasion force; but the unnaturally exaggrated and evolved bloodborne diseases that created and evolved inside the human carrier; even humanity had no idea a simple blood disease borned from consuming wild meat would cause massive outbreak; its HIV btw...
I remember when I was a kid I thought I came from the planet Mars and that's why I made this sound from time to time, to call the aliens to pick me up. I later found out I'm autistic lol (Sorry for my english)
Funfact: Paleontologists believe that some large hadrosaurian ( duck-billed ) dinosaurs, such as Edmontosaurus, Magnapaulia and Parasaurolophus, emitted deep, trumpet-like sounds, just like the Tripods.
For the curious folk The noise it makes is a reference to the carnyx, an instrument used by the celts over 2000 years ago to scare their enemies in the battlefield. It was scary because of its unnatural tone, nothing on earth could produce it, and you could say it sounded alien right? There we go.
You should check out the horn they have that sounds like someone screaming in pain. Not Celtic though I think it's Aztec but it's similar in that crazy intimidating sense
Both. Another great commentator pointed out that humans and any animal fear louder noises as it indicates a much larger creature. And humans are wired to afraid broader noise wave lenght; psychological warfare. Tripods also used the noise to find and signal eachother; like 'human here!' - 'War here!'
*Martian Tripod* Is DOMINATING *Humanity* "BRRRRRRRRWRRRRRRRUUUUUUUU" *Earthling Bacteria* Is DOMINATING *Martian Tripod* "...." *Humanity* Has gotten REVENGE on *Martian Tripod* "I had me eye on you th' whole time!"
I just had a nightmare where these started coming after a huge tsunami flooded the city but they had those warp cannons from the hl2 striders, the worst part was that it was an insanely realistic dream so I thought it really was the end of the world.
Jonathan there might not even be any other intelligent life out there at the minute. We could be going through the grey filter, in which we are either the first or last sentient species in the galaxy and will probably wipe ourselves out before more life appears
@Jonathan Rodriguez how can you be sure of that lol, we may also br advanced in our own way compared to a primitive alien species. Also if you think your life isnt exciting its kinda your thing. Its up to you to live a good and enjoyable life not some aliens that may not even exist to begin with
“Dad, why is my sister’s name’s Rose” “Because your Mother loves roses” “Thanks Dad!” “No problem War Of The Worlds Scary Tripod Sounds (With Pitched Changes)”
@Dylan the boy's sister is called Rose because his mother likes roses. The son is called "War of the Worlds Scary Tripod Sound (With Pitch Changes)" because his dad likes "War of the Worlds Scary Tripod Sound (With Pitch Changes)"
this sound has terrified me since I was a kid it activates my fight or flight response even now "fight" or flight is putting it nicely, it makes me wanna flee and that's all
I kinda wonder which version of the horn people find scariest, like, if there's a horn that's common in people being most scared of, you get what I mean?
+SuperSix4 I would probably call for an ambulance to take me to the psychiatric ER. Real or not I would probably end at the psychiatric ER because these things scare the living shit out of me.
"Okay time to stop this before the neighbors get mad at me again" *Turns off speakers but tripod sounds still going on" "Turn off you damn speaker!" *Unplugs speaker but sounds still can be heard* "Oh.......oh no"
This sound is perfect. It's eldritch, terrifying and organic. There's something about it sounding non-technological that adds an extra layer of dread to it, like it has no practical application besides being a tool of intimidation. This low pitched horn evokes some kind of deep seated primal fear at the back of everyone's mind, like the aliens knew the exact functioning of our psychology that they could create a sound that by itself evokes terror.
Well... the sound could also be a form of communication between the tripods. You know... for ground units. We have seen, that they are fully organic, without any communication devices. And we have also seen, that all three of them, while being in the basement, left the basement after hearing one of those sounds.
i find it so funny how in the mid to late 1930’s a radio station created a fake alien invasion Broadcast just to terrify and essentially create the biggest prank of all time 💀 People actually called 911 and were panicking in the streets
Imagine this: It is a foggy day. You are going out of home and going into town or the city then you wait for about half an hour by the bus stop and no buses came. You phone a taxi or something and they said they'd be about 15 mins or so. Nothing came. You called the taxi services again but they never picked up. You walk to your destination and you see smoke in the distance. You call 999 (or whatever your country's emergency number is). They don't answer. You continue walking into the city and you see cars and corpses scattered everywhere. You are frozen in shock then you hear an explosion in the distance and you turn around in fear. You still think about the explosion and continue exploring the carnage and you hear this loud, unexplained klaxon. You freeze in fear then you turn around and look closely. You see this dark, mysterious mechanism (the tripod) emerging slowly from the fog. You head to a hidden place and look as it closely walks past you. How'd you feel experiencing that? EDIT: Just figured I'd post my comment from a while ago on the top post here to save you scrolling down that much to read my thanks: "Ok, I've come back here randomly after 3 years. I have to say, thanks for all your support after all these years. I must have been like 13-14 when I wrote this. I'm 17 now and in college, fucking hell time goes fast. I did check your reactions to this scenario - from the serious, to the sad, to the outright hilarious. It won't be related to this, but I am thinking of making my own story in the future - more specifically a comic on DeviantArt. I'm not ready yet, because I want to make my drawing skills better before I start (they are improving, but I don't feel ready yet as already mentioned). But I know with planning and courage, I can do it. Thank you all dearly for all the positivity throughout these mere years. :)" EDIT 2: So, I saw some replies regarding my location. Not that it's relevant in any way, but I am from England. Hope that answered that question to those asking. EDIT 3: I've recently started the starting steps to my story project, wish me luck. :)
I think one of the reasons these are so scary is because of the way they portrayed the aliens by making them merciless and truly ALIEN and mysterious rather than generic enemies
I like the track you're on. Can you explain more on what you mean by generic enemies though? It'd be interesting to here from a science-fiction writer's point of view.
+DeltaWarrior well I'm not a Sci first writer but I meant enemies where the odds are even and we aren't afraid of them or dumb bugs that get mowed down. See what I mean?
