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Brian McCleary's son, Sean McCleary, gives an interview in this video, which was uploaded earlier this year. Sean starts talking at the 24 minute mark. For a long time, only Fate Magazine was the source of this story, now there is Sean, Brian's son, retelling the story his late dad allegedly told him. In this version McCleary seems to have changed it from a sea serpent to a plesiosaur, and rather than just a head and neck he now says he saw a humped back. Sean himself uses up quite a bit of the interview promoting books about quantum consciousness that he wrote, but the rest is him talking about his dad's alleged experience. If you're familiar with cryptozoology, you may have come across the case of 16-year old Edward Brian McCleary's Pensacola sea serpent story, which is most well known from a 1965 Fate Magazine entry, authored by Brian McCleary, in which he goes into intricate detail about his 4 friends being killed by a sea serpent, leaving him as the sole survivor. Due to the age of the story, it was fairly difficult to find the story from the source, rather than re-tellings of it, but I managed to find the complete Fate Magazine entry here https://www.theakforum.net/threads/supposed-true-story-of-edward-brian-mccleary-did-a-sea-monster-kill-his-freinds.299593/page-2?nested_view=1&sortby=oldest https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13346700/bradford-jay-rice Includes a newspaper snippet. There's other newspaper snippets which confirm that Brian's friends really did vanish that day. McCleary explained that the reason that none of the newspapers mentioned a monster is because it was covered up. He says he was told that the monster was "better left unmentioned to all of those concerned". This is where McCleary's story sort of turns into one of a conspiracy theory. According to doctors at the Naval Base hospital, Brian was in the water over 12 hours and swam an estimated five miles, wheras news reports said he was in the water for fewer hours and swam two miles. Allegedly, McCleary spent the rest of his life telling the monster story, joining online forums relating to encounters with the paranormal, with McCleary exchanging telephone calls with people who claimed to have spotted the same green sea serpent that McCleary saw when he was a teenager. The area where McCleary says he spotted the "sea serpent" is a popular fishing and diving spot that's in shallow waters 20-30 ft deep. Some have pointed out that the monster that McCleary drew bears a stark resemblance to the character Cecil, from an animated series titled Cecil & Beany. It began airing in January of 1962. There is only one other iteration of the story authored by McCleary, which appears to be his letter to Tims Dinsdale https://www.trueauthority.com/cryptozoology/death.htm In this version, he says that he got to the ship and stayed there for most of the night, whereas in the Fate Magazine version, he didn't get to the ship and headed straight for shore. McCleary himself died several years ago, at the age of 71. He had worked at Mental Health Resource Center in Jacksonville, Florida. This story appeared on Facebook recently so I decided to look into it. I can't find many places discussing it so I thought I'd post it here. What are your thoughts?

Based on this it seems like the teenager is lying. https://headphonesaddict.com/how-loud-are-apple-airpods/ they even used human shaped dummy ears in the test.

Seems like it would be fairly easy to prove or disprove the teenager's claim. Get a sound level meter, and put it right up against an Airpod playing on max volume. If it's 160 dB (the sound intensity required to rupture eardrums) or close, then the teenager's claim is plausible. If it's nowhere near 160 dB, then the teenager is lying about the cause, if an ear injury ever occurred at all. Unfortunately, I have neither a sound level meter or Airpods.

Asked my friend, who is an audiologist, what she thinks of this case. She messaged me back with this "This is nonsense and reeks of a hoax. The SPL required to shatter an eardrum is around 160 dB, which is equivalent to the SPL of a gunshot fired close to you. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/when-using-headphones-to-listen-to-music-how-loud-it-too-loud-for-kids/ mentions that the top volume level on Apple music players is 102 dB. The volume required to cause rupture of an eardrum is almost 10,000,000,000 times louder. The photos could be of somebody else's child, or a routine hearing test. There's not a single case in the literature of eardrum ruptures happening at only 102 dB. There's no reason that Amber Alerts would be any more damaging than any other similarly loud noise. This is like claiming that a bb gun pellet tore your arm off."

According to this, sound intensities starting from 150 decibels can cause eardrum rupture: https://www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/Training/PPETrain/dblevels.htm Also found another article on the lawsuit which provides photos and a video: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10830803/Boy-suffered-ruptured-ear-drum-hearing-loss-Apple-AirPods-blared-Amber-Alert.html

Would the sudden ness of the sound matter? I remember reading on Reddit that sudden sounds are more dangerous for some reason.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8851556/apple-lawsuit-amber-alert-hearing-damage/ https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/44560022/Gordoa_et_al_v_Apple,_Inc_et_al I did some Googling, and the maximum output physically possible for Airpods is 100-105 decibels when in the ear. So if they're playing a sound at maximum volume, the maximum decibels their eardrums could be exposed to is 100-105 decibels. Apparently, the family waited two years before filing the lawsuit, but I can't find a source for this as of now, it was a comment made on Reddit. Is 100-105 decibels enough to instantly rupture a person's eardrum and immediately cause permanent hearing damage as the family claims?

This is referring to a specific study with a large sample size.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014cosp...40E1114G/abstract#%3A~%3Atext%3DIt was shown statistically that%2Ccomparison with quiet geomagnetic conditions Geomagnetic disturbances are fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field. Mechanism by how magnetic frequencies lead to heart attacks is discussed lower down in the article: Are hospitals kept updated on space weather so that they can plan accordingly?

The second link says "Access Denied" when I click on it. What did it say? EDIT: Managed to find a cached version of it. It seems to be talking about radiation rather than the fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field, specifically how the radiation cannot harm us since the magnetic field protects us from it. The studies I linked were talking about how fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field during geomagnetic storms are responsible for the health effects, not radiation. The magnetic field is what prevents the radiation from reaching the surface but it is ultimately the fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field that are causing all these health effects.

Seen a lot of news articles lately about upcoming magnetic storms and their impact on human health: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/familyhealth/magnetic-storms-in-january-2024-anticipating-impact-timing/ar-AA1m2YfQ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EdgeStart&cvid=2ac33d5b533f441398bc86eb57ce3bd0&ei=22 A lot of these articles mention how magnetic storms are bad for the heart.

They simulated the geomagnetic field fluctuations on rats and found that the rats experienced more seizures the next day compared to control rats. https://aepi.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42494-020-00019-9

How do you explain all the studies I linked reporting associations between geomagnetic storms (which are defined as a disturbance time index of -50 nT or lower) and effects on the heart and other systems in the body? When multiple studies corroborate these types of findings it makes it harder for me to be convinced that correlation doesn't equal causation in the context of this topic. I understand correlation doesn't equal causation, but these studies are independent from one another, done by different authors in different countries in different organizations. I can't find any studies (or sources in general) saying that there is no association found between geomagnetic storms and negative health effects. The general scientific consensus seems to be that geomagnetic storms are harmful to health. When small studies started showing correlations between the full moon and health effects, other studies debunked them and said there's no link. I'm not seeing the same thing happening concerning geomagnetic storms causing health effects.

The strength varies depending on where you are but the lower end is 25,000 nanoteslas, upper end is 65,000. Fluctuations greater than -50 nanotesla per minute are considered geomagnetic storms. The authors of these studies are not suggesting that Earth's static magnetic field is causing these effects, but specifically the fluctuations in the field. A fluctuating magnetic field induces currents in a conductor, known as magnetic induction. The idea is the fluctuating magnetic field during these geomagnetic storms induces currents in the body, affecting the heart and nervous system.

The fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field during geomagnetic disturbances are measured in Nanotesla (nT). During a geomagnetic disturbance, the fluctuation intensity can vary depending on the severity of the geomagnetic storm. For mild storms, the fluctuations are a few tens of Nanotesla per minute. In a very severe storm, these fluctuations can be up to 500 nanoteslas per minute.