Around the turn of the twentieth century, an Italian physics teacher and meteorologist named Tito Alippi undertook a curious piece of citizen science. He mailed survey forms to contacts across Italy asking a very unexpected question: do the people in your part of the country ever hear an unexplained booming noise, like a low rumble or the distant sound of cannon fire? If they do, what do the locals there call it?
Alippi was not the only researcher interested in this phenomenon. In the 1890s s...
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