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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.

https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-health/2019/09/19/geomagnetic-disturbances-and-cardiovascular-mortality-riskutm_sourcebmc_blogsutm_mediumreferralutm_contentnullutm_campaignblog_2019_on-health/ ''Our results may be explained through the direct impact of environmental electric and magnetic fields produced during GMD on the human autonomic nervous system. Interactions between GMD and the autonomic nervous system are likely to induce a cascade of reactions in the body's electrophysiology that culminate in the collapse of organ functions and death.'' Weird how no less than a few years ago scientists were assuring people that non-ionizing magnetic fields were harmless to people (remember scientists debunking the 5G conspiracy theories?) but now, all of a sudden, they are saying that even Earth's magnetic field is killing us. What is going on? Why the sudden 180?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552420300080 - Peer reviewed. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.120.021006 - Journal of the American Heart Association https://biomedscis.com/fulltext/the-effects-of-solar-activity-and-geomagnetic-disturbance-on-human-health.ID.000203.php https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13769-does-the-earths-magnetic-field-cause-suicides/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2324402-solar-storms-may-cause-up-to-5500-heart-related-deaths-in-a-given-year/ There are links to magnetic storms and schizophrenia and even Alzheimer's https://biomedscis.com/fulltext/the-effects-of-solar-activity-and-geomagnetic-disturbance-on-human-health.ID.000203.php https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-health/2019/09/19/geomagnetic-disturbances-and-cardiovascular-mortality-riskutm_sourcebmc_blogsutm_mediumreferralutm_contentnullutm_campaignblog_2019_on-health/ ''Our results may be explained through the direct impact of environmental electric and magnetic fields produced during GMD on the human autonomic nervous system. Interactions between GMD and the autonomic nervous system are likely to induce a cascade of reactions in the body's electrophysiology that culminate in the collapse of organ functions and death.'' https://aepi.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42494-020-00019-9 Earth's magnetic field allegedly causes seizures too. It is theorized that this is because when Earth's magnetic field fluctuates, it messes up the pineal gland, causing all sorts of issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_storm

This recent news story, published 2 hours ago popped up on my MSN https://www.msn.com/en-gb/weather/topstories/strong-magnetic-storm-raging-on-earth-and-will-last-for-several-days/ar-AA1lJLAH?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=a1612a7a07bb44a0e7e28844b28de6f6&ei=10 The past week I keep seeing new news articles posted every day about solar flares/geomagnetic storms, and most of the ones I've seen on my MSN news feed go on about how magnetic storms are causing all these health effects. I've never heard about magnetic storms causing health effects until a few days ago and I've read about solar storms a lot in the past.

All of a sudden, out of nowhere, within the past three years, there have been a myriad of studies all saying that fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field causes heart attacks and other heart problems, due to Earth's magnetic field disrupting the heart's electrical activity. Pretty much every serious health problem you can think of has been correlated with geomagnetic storms. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552420300080 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.120.021006 https://biomedscis.com/fulltext/the-effects-of-solar-activity-and-geomagnetic-disturbance-on-human-health.ID.000203.php https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13769-does-the-earths-magnetic-field-cause-suicides/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2324402-solar-storms-may-cause-up-to-5500-heart-related-deaths-in-a-given-year/ I've even seen studies linking fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field (geomagnetic storms) with the incidence of seizures, schizophrenia, and even Alzheimer's. So, what about MRI machines? The magnetic field of an MRI machine is a whopping 100,000 times stronger than Earth's, and the fluctuations are much more violent. By comparison, the fluctuations of Earth's magnetic field during even the most severe geomagnetic storms are measured on the order of a few hundred nanoteslas per minute and don't even affect pacemakers.

When I saw the articles it reminded me of the so called "Lunar Effect" as well, but instead of the moon it's the sun, and instead of "tidal forces" it is "Schumann resonances" and magnetism. The Lunar Effect has been talked about for ages. I'm wondering why all of a sudden there seem to be studies cropping up within the past 2-3 years making claims that geomagnetic storms cause pretty much every health problem imaginable. They're done by different authors in different countries, but they always seem to use the same terms and focus on Earth's magnetic field as the culprit for all these negative effects on the human body. First time hearing of "heliobiology" as well, which is apparently what this field of science is.

The 5,500 figure is for US deaths only, not worldwide. I just did a quick experiment by rapidly waving a fridge magnet across my heart and also my head. Nothing happened despite a fridge magnet being hundreds of times stronger compared to the Earth's magnetic field. For some odd reason my heart didn't stop despite the studies I linked in my OP suggesting that a much weaker field (Earth's) moving much more slowly has such catastrophic effects on human health. I wonder why the much more powerful fridge magnet had no effect on me?

What about this? https://www.newscientist.com/article/2324402-solar-storms-may-cause-up-to-5500-heart-related-deaths-in-a-given-year/ They're saying magnetic fields from geomagnetic storms can disrupt the heart causing thousands of deaths a year.

https://biomedscis.com/fulltext/the-effects-of-solar-activity-and-geomagnetic-disturbance-on-human-health.ID.000203.php ''m) Solar activity may contribute to the development of and be a trigger of the exacerbation of nervous and mental disorders, such schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, and multiple sclerosis [38].'' https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5805718/ https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-health/2019/09/19/geomagnetic-disturbances-and-cardiovascular-mortality-riskutm_sourcebmc_blogsutm_mediumreferralutm_contentnullutm_campaignblog_2019_on-health/ ''Our results may be explained through the direct impact of environmental electric and magnetic fields produced during GMD on the human autonomic nervous system. Interactions between GMD and the autonomic nervous system are likely to induce a cascade of reactions in the body's electrophysiology that culminate in the collapse of organ functions and death.'' https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13769-does-the-earths-magnetic-field-cause-suicides/ Geomagnetic storms and suicides. https://aepi.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42494-020-00019-9 geomagnetic activity also causes seizures. Scientists theorize that this is because when Earth's magnetic field fluctuates, it messes up the pineal gland, causing all sorts of issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_storm

Turns out that scientists and doctors have proven that the Mark Gleeson story has been made up. Humans breathe through their mouths if they can't breathe through their nose. Nobody's died from a blocked nose. There's not a single case of it reported on NIH or in medical journals. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9498581/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9498537/

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12117183.man-dies-in-bid-to-stop-his-snoring/ He put the tampons in his nostrils before going to bed. He would've been already breathing through his mouth as he was going to sleep.