Animals Keep Creating Mysteries by Sounding Weird
The Cuban cricket crisis is the latest in a long history of human-animal misunderstandings.
In late 2016, American diplomats living in Cuba started hearing a strange noise in their homes. It was high-pitched, deafening, and persistent—and no one could work out where it was coming from.
In the following years, the mystery ballooned into an international incident. Many of the diplomats experienced dizziness, insomnia, hearing loss, and other troubling symptoms. A team from the University of Pennsylvania examined 21 affected people and that they had “sustained injury to widespread brain networks,” based on evidence that other neurologists said was “.” Donald Trump, without evidence, . Various parties argued that the strange noise was the result of a, a , or .
