Ever since the Wilhelm Scream became a go-to sound effect in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, it has popped up in hundreds of movies, TV shows, and other forms of entertainment.

The Wilhelm scream has been around since Raoul Walsh’s 1951 film “Distant Drums,” a Gary Cooper Western for Warner Brothers that includes an interlude in Florida, during which a frontiersman ...

“I sound like a beast,” the 19-year-old told me later. ... In other words, if Swift fans’ demon screaming sounds like an exorcism, it’s because that’s what it is.

It is, eerily, exactly what I’d expect a robot screaming to sound like. AI ChatGPT LLM OpenAI. Daily Newsletter. Get the best tech, science, and culture news in your inbox daily.

But the sound of this particular scream — a high-pitched noise almost like a baby's cry — triggered something deep in his gut. And his curiosity. Sponsor Message.

The Aztec skull whistle produces a shrill, screaming sound. A study shows that these whistles have a disturbing effect on the human brain. The Aztecs may have deliberately used this effect in ...