Shortly before I edited this podcast, I read a short story entitled “Silent Night” by Baynard Kendrick, a once-famous mystery writer whose work has since faded into more or less obscurity. The main character in “Silent Night’ is a blind private investigator who has developed his other senses to compensate for his loss of sight. He solves a nefarious holiday kidnapping by identifying the source of a unique sound on a recorded ransom note that was so familiar to the kidnappers that they overlooked it.
The event described in this podcast also points out how easy it is to take the many sounds in our own environments for granted. And it also points out how disquieting even the most innocuous sensory input can be to us and/or our animals if it occurs under the wrong circumstances.
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