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© Joe Raedie/Getty Images Coastal residents in North Carolina have described hearing explosive noises with no apparent cause. Enigmatic booming sounds called the Seneca Guns have reverberated off parts of coastal North Carolina for more than 150 years, with some powerful enough to rattle windows and vibrate buildings. Now, scientists are using seismic data to pinpoint where the explosions come from and what causes them. They presented their findings on Dec. 7 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But spoiler alert: They haven t quite solved the mystery yet. The name Seneca Guns comes not from North Carolina, but from Lake Seneca in upstate New York where a similar phenomenon occurred. The lake s ominous booming sounds, described in 1850 by the writer James Fenimore Cooper in his short story The Lake Gun, had at the time been heard for centuries.

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