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Show Odd Sounds Gave Rise to Belief in Demons South America has a moaning mountain. At certain seasons a deep note booms from Mount El Bromador In the Chilean Andes. In former days the natives listened to it with superstitious fear, while even a white man, bearing it for the first time, is startled at the mountain's "power" Another curious mountain exists tn Nevada, though this one usually gives out a note resembling at first the jingling of bells and ending with a deep organ-like swell. In both cases the sounds are due to a peculiar for matlon of the earth, which under cer tain conditions of weather allows the separate particles to rub against each other and so produce uncanny effects Elgg Island, off the Scottish coast, has Its "singing sands," where at times each grain rubs against Its neighbor, the whole making a singing sing-ing noise. Similar sands are found tn China. In England Is a mountain which howls Id such a way that formerly for-merly It was supposed to be the hannt of demons. This Is Cross fell, In Westmoreland, where local condl'.Jons produce a gale with several peculiarities. peculiar-ities. Including an awe-Inspiring scream that at times can be beard for miles. |