AP Wire | 12/13/2004 | Mysterious booms heard along Carolina coast
Mysterious booms heard along Carolina coast
Associated Press
CHARLESTON, S.C. - A loud boom breaks the stillness on a clear day. There are no storms in the area, no jet aircraft flying by and no reports of earthquakes or explosions.
The booms, heard from time to time in South Carolina and more recently, in North Carolina, are popularly known as Seneca Guns, a folk term for unexplained booms that have been noted along the East Coast for years.
The name comes from Seneca Lake in upstate New York where the booms have been heard at least since the 1800s. Author James Fenimore Cooper, who wrote “The Last of the Mohicans” among other novels, wrote about the phenomenon in a short story more than 150 years ago.
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