Written by This is the beginning map for navigating Sound Torture in the 21st century. Sound and frequency abuse are becoming more prevalent and more easy to propagate as technology and organizational AI advances. At the same time no new laws are being made to protect civilians from these weapons – not even information that these weapons exist, leaving everyone completely exposed.
These are some links from other sources related to sound torture/abuse in some form or another. This information is harder to come by than we expected. We are glad others have started discussions about this to raise awareness, and will be glad to share their findings or perceptions and add to the pot from our own collected experience.
Bleed A Little Louder – Sound, Silence, and Music Torture
The Sound of Fear: Room40 boss Lawrence English on the history of noise as a weapon
Torture Methods with Sound – How Pure Noise Can Be Used To Break You Psychologically
Noise Pollution and Sound Trauma Becomes Psychological Torture
When Sound Becomes a Weapon: Noise in Torture and Fear
Why Noise Torture Hurts – Vice
The Forever Prison: Abu Zubaydah
The guide we’ll be writing and detailing here is focused on if/when these techniques and technology is to be used on civilians in non-combat situations. Whether this is ultimately from an invading force or a rogue authoritarian government makes no difference, as they amount to the exact same thing when it comes to the victims and the ultimate effect on the target or targeted individuals.
We’ll be focusing specifically on how an organization or collection of people with ill intent towards someone could effectively invade their personal environment and life without others knowing. Part of this torture technique is isolation, and experiencing a sound following you around that only your ears have the range to hear, based on their tests with frequency guns and natural sounds, is part of the psychological pressure this process is intended to put on someone.
The very basic goal of torturing someone with sound in this manner is to make other environmental sounds become triggers – effectively causing other, mundane noises to become painful themselves because of overuse of the ear. This is an actual condition known as Hyperacusis which can be caused and developed through repetitive or constant loud or high pitched sounds.
Hyperacusis is an increased sensitivity to sound and a low tolerance for environmental noise. Definitions of hyperacusis can vary significantly; it often revolves around damage to or dysfunction of the stapes bone, stapedius muscle or tensor tympani. It is often categorized into four subtypes: loudness, pain (also called noxacusis), annoyance, and fear.[1][2] It can be a highly debilitating hearing disorder.[3]
There are a variety of causes and risk factors, with the most common being exposure to loud noise.[1] It is often coincident with tinnitus.[1] Proposed mechanisms in the literature involve dysfunction in the brain, inner ear, or middle ear.
-Wikipedia page on Hyperacusis
This condition is extremely debilitating. Noise is one thing that can’t be completely blocked from the senses, there’s sound happening around all of us all the time, in crowded places or not. In populated areas and un-populated areas there is always going to be sound. People tend to have exaggerated forms of communication as well as machines that end up contributing far more to noise pollution when compared to nature but it’s never truly quiet anywhere on earth. In addition to this, certain frequencies of sound and volume can go through any kind of ear plugs or barriers. Infrasound is so low that it vibrates your entire body and many people can’t handle loud bass or music festivals as a result. On the other end of the spectrum, there are high pitched frequencies that can create pressure in the ears by the same mechanism a high note can crack glass. Both of these are essentially inescapable unless one physically moves away from the source.
Up until more recently, it’s always traditionally been very difficult to locate sources of sound or read frequencies. Not until the 1930’s were frequencies even really discovered and measured. Our technology has caught up somewhat, but reading spectrum analyzers and using professional audio equipment are not something everyone does. It’s also difficult to see physical evidence of abuse like this unless one directly examines the ear and is able to find scarring or inflammation. It’s easy to tell if someone is being beat up or starved, it’s not so easy trying to explain to someone who doesn’t have the appropriate hearing range to even hear what you’re hearing that there’s an extremely traumatizing sound happening in front of them. To then have to try to explain that you believe it’s someone intentionally aiming it in your direction becomes almost impossible.
Luckily we live in 2025 and there are readily available instruments as well as professional audio investigators that can track and analyze noise while it’s on. The issue in this case is not being able to locate the source or record it and display it accurately, it’s the fact that a device that creates a frequency, or even affecting one’s environment, to create abrasive sounds isn’t difficult to facilitate or even that expensive. One (who is knowingly violating human rights) can keep making things louder around a person. If they have access to the person’s home they can continue tampering with things that make sound such as utilities – heating/cooling, plumbing, electricity. They can place sound outside their home. Most people have neighboring houses/apartments that also produce sound or can host devices to produce sound. Cars can easily be tampered with to make noise or have small frequency generators planted in them. Many people live under commercial flight paths. Birds and other animals are constantly outside.
~ This one bit of information will help immensely for any experience involving your ears used as a weapon against you, and that is to grab both a pair of really solid headphones, and also grab a pair of really solid ear plugs. There are many different kinds of ear plugs including wax plugs that completely fill in your ears. Attempt to use them as little as possible as this method of abusing someone is intended to be long, slow, and drawn out. By design it would get worse based on what the person could handle in the moment.
Music that one is playing from headphones is particularly useful as not only do headphones block the outside noise, but the frequencies generated by the headphones themselves create a sort of audio frequency pocket, like a sound shield, as well as being distracting to any general, constant, background tone. ~
The primary purpose of surrounding someone with noise is first to remove their control of their own sound space and auditory environment. They no longer have the pause button to their own hearing and senses, this is supposed to install a feeling of helplessness as well as create the constant, repetitive digs that comprises torture of almost any kind. These frequency attacks would also ideally be combined with some of these other torture techniques in order to get whatever desired result the group targeting someone would want.
Torture is often described as occurring when the victim is powerless and under the control of the perpetrator, which can help distinguish it from legitimate use of force.
Psychological torture includes methods that involve no physical element as well as forcing a person to do something and physical attacks that ultimately target the mind.[160] Death threats, mock execution, or being forced to witness the torture of another person are often reported to be subjectively worse than being physically tortured and are associated with severe sequelae.[179] Other torture techniques include sleep deprivation, overcrowding or solitary confinement, withholding of food or water, sensory deprivation (such as hooding), exposure to extremes of light or noise (e.g., musical torture),[180] humiliation (which can be based on sexuality or the victim’s religious or national identity),[181] and the use of animals such as dogs to frighten or injure a prisoner.[182][183] Positional torture works by forcing the person to adopt a stance, putting their weight on a few muscles, causing pain without leaving marks, for example standing or squatting for extended periods.[184] Rape and sexual assault are universal torture methods and frequently instill a permanent sense of shame in the victim and in some cultures, humiliate their family and society.[185][186] Cultural and individual differences affect how the victim perceives different torture methods.
We won’t look at the reasoning why a group of people would want to do this to someone, but we will proceed with the assumption that a group of people with motivation would be malicious/brazen enough to do this to someone in public and have the access to essentially get away with it.
After removing an individuals control of their own surroundings to create a base foundation in the same way a psychologist creates a base personality profile to begin working with, they would have to test your hearing range. For this to work in any way they would also have to be able to monitor or surveil the target directly or remotely for visual physical responses or bio-metric feedback as well as some form of control over their environment, however extreme or slight. They would start testing their targets ears to see what they could and couldn’t hear, they’d run through different sounds from different sources. They would see if they were already bothered by any noise in particular and how sensitive their ears already are.
The sounds would start occurring in coincidental timing by now, in a further attempt to remove one’s control of their own environment and begin to annoy them. If someone follows you around and every time you take a step they scream at you, eventually your going to correlate taking a step with a loud scream. This idea would be extrapolated to the entire environment. Suddenly everything your doing is being followed by sound against your will. Every time you stand up, a car horn beeps. Every time you open a door in your house, a bird chirps. You begin walking on eggshells, almost literally. Even in this stage, normal environmental sound starts becoming unwelcome, mostly just through the fact that something is clearly controlling the situation and you are not.
Example A
As they gain a hearing and psychological profile on their target remotely over the course of a couple of weeks, they wait for them to leave your living space and a couple of guys in a plumbing van show up and walk in, in what appears to be an appointment. They have people watching the neighborhood/facilities and aren’t worried about their cover being blown and enter the targets living space. They have some basic knowledge of electrical appliances and a layout of the space ahead of time. They begin by going into general appliances and start with removing cable insulators to the condenser in the refrigerator. They hit every appliance that has a fan, spraying semi-corrosive chemicals on the ball bearings, now the fans (microwave, bathroom vent, fridge circulation, air conditioner, overhead fans) all make a slight high pitched squeal. One of them goes into the breaker box, pulls off the main panel, and scratches off some of the wiring so now the breaker’s connection to the meter can be overcharged without the breaker flipping. They then both go into the sinks plumbing and purposefully loosen the hot water piping so a slight air leak occurs every time the hot water comes on, which mimics the sound of a tea kettle, or train whistle. They put everything back where they found it, make sure they didn’t leave anything out of place, leave, lock the door, and drive away. The target’s neighbor waves to them as they go and they join their cohorts in the surveillance room down the street.
The target gets back, walks in the door, goes to take a shower and hears the slightest ringing in their ear. They think nothing of it and go about their day watching tv, playing video games, making dinner. As they lay down for the night a small hum starts kicking on in the background, but they don’t even notice it and drift off to sleep as they were busy earlier. They wake up and start going about their day. They turn on the faucet in the bathroom and hear a slight hissing noise. Noticing it, the target turns off the faucet and turns it back on with it still hissing. They shrug and having no understanding of plumbing, think there’s something off with the top of the sink faucet, but they have another busy day ahead of them so they ignore that as well. On their way out the door, they notice a faint ringing in their ears as they walk through the living space but have to leave.
Later that day, the target is out in public and notices the same ringing sound is now coming out of their cars air conditioning system. They turn off the air conditioner and the sound dies down. They turn it back on and it’s quiet. Thinking it’s weird and maybe something got stuck in the vent they go about their day. Upon arriving home there’s now a random construction project happening right next to the driveway that nobody left a notice for, a jackhammer is now sitting next to a “Construction Zone” sign about 20 feet away from their front door…
This is simply an example of how this would be set up for a person. There’s infinite variables, the important thing to pass along is the mentality of the abusers doing this. They’d invade your home, life and mind then get upset that you don’t consent.
- Start recording everything around you. Get the best recording hardware/software you can find, for both video and audio.
- Be skeptical of everyone, the people abusing a person in this situation are purposefully put close to them to make it easier to monitor, this means they’re likely posing as a friend/neighbor/worker.
- Assume nothing is what it seems, take everything with a grain of salt, and keep a central balanced foundation of emotional support for yourself despite anything happening around you.
- Maintain diet, nutrition and health as best as possible, one of the goals of this after a certain point is to degrade your body to the point of exhaustion.
- Fight back. They’re going to do this to you whether you fight or not, might as well defend yourself. Figure out what they’re doing then calm yourself down in order to explain it rationally to someone. Keep the people around you as allies as much as possible, they’ll ruin your relationships to make you more isolated. If you can keep your head while collecting evidence and not break down, they ultimately can’t do anything – you’ll just go deaf if you don’t go crazy. With some luck, a person will come out of this with a ton of evidence and enough scarring of their hearing canal to prove their experience. Then it’s just a matter of connecting your experience with the countless stories of frequency weapons being used in war procedures to prove someone was doing this in your home.
Frequency Weapons
In addition to high pitched sounds implanted in devices or guns that follow a person around, frequencies can affect just about everything in a person’s body or environment. From sound, to light, to vibrations, to mimicking neuron responses that can make your muscles constrict, make you think certain ways, slow blood flow to specific parts of the body, and even cause heart attacks or strokes with enough pressure. There are also electro-magnetic frequency weapons that send pulsed radiation at a person’s body or generalized area that can cause all manner of ill health affects often associated with high doses of radiation exposure. These devices are kept secret, often anything even related to them end up immediately labeled as conspiracy theory, and that is likely because they’re being widely used on the public population without them even knowing about it. It’s a slippery slope with frequencies, as they can affect almost all aspects of physical matter or physics properties in general – if there were organized groups of people utilizing these for their own means, they would likely not want anyone to know about it or else laws would be made yesterday. We’re just now beginning to get public reports of these devices being developed, which means they’ve been around for at least a decade or two, following the tradition that the military has roughly 20 years more advanced, secret tech the public is unaware of at any given time.
Havana Syndrome is a generalized name given for a wide range of medical experiences also known as anomalous health incidents (AHIs). The Wikipedia page on Havana Syndrome mentions “Starting in 2016 in about a dozen overseas locations, U.S. and Canadian government officials and their families reported symptoms associated with a perceived localized loud sound. The symptoms lasted for months and included disabling cognitive problems, balance problems, dizziness, insomnia, and headaches.”
The medical community refuses to acknowledge them as real as of this writing, but that’s because the medical community is essentially bought and sold, usually by their schooling and subsequent professional careers – similar to scientists, who only get research papers published if they maintain the status quo of their respective industries.
Norwegian Scientist Gives Himself Brain Damage, Trying To Disprove ‘Havana Syndrome’
Government Paid “Eight Figures” for Mysterious Device Believed to Cause Havana Syndrome
These weapons would be able to cause a wide range of disorienting effects and be almost impossible to detect even for a professional team of investigators, let alone an individual or small group of unknowing civilians that are being attacked from a distance. The right devices, with the right dish to send a signal, with the right kind of surveillance on their targets, with an advanced computer system that could be used for targeting, would basically be able to put an average person into a waking nightmare. Their lives would become non-relevant, as their entire life and existence would be taken over by sound and bodily effects that would be crippling to any individual who is made of flesh and blood. Without large amounts of money to expend on investigation, protections, or the very least the ability to outrun whoever would be following them, it’s very easily a death sentence if the necessarily evil people doing this decide to continue harassing them or choose to play god. To someone with no protections, especially someone in ill health or who does drugs that affect heart rate or cognitive function, they would have absolutely no chance against an even semi-organized group of people doing this to them. A high pitched frequency constantly in the background of someone’s environment would slowly drive them crazy. Infrasound, which is the deep sub-bass often experienced at electronic music festivals, could be used to shake the ground/buildings/floor/walls of a person’s home, causing what could only be described as constant seismic activity, which would be incredibly disorienting after long periods of time. A well placed frequency with the intent to violently vibrate the area around a person’s heart could easily cause a heart arrhythmia – leading to heart attacks. A frequency putting pressure on someone’s head for long enough could block blood flow to the brain which would eventually cause strokes. All of these would be able to be turned on/off by remote, from a distance, by hand or by computer as long as the hardware is already set-up.
This is why laws need to be made immediately. Even if this is far-fetched sci-fi at this point, we’ve already shown evidence that these weapons are real and currently being developed and researched by world governments and their militaries. There is absolute no reason why a law couldn’t be made unless they’re actively using it to attack, threaten, coerce, harm, or kill their own population and they don’t want to be held accountable for it or offer any protections to their own civilians intentionally. The implications of this are severe, and this needs to be taken with the appropriate level of seriousness.
Without laws at least offering some sort of barrier the few things you could do if you feel like you’re being attacked with frequency weapons like this is:
- Tell someone about your experience immediately – Do not go through this alone
- Stop in-taking substances or making lifestyle choices that would make it easier for people to harm you physically or psychologically – anything that makes your heart rate unbalanced would be dangerous – dehydration would also become more dangerous as muscle contractions would be made more severe, like any other cramp – your blood flows better when more hydrated as well, if you feel your heart or head are being pressed on, blood thinners or vasodilators would help, vasoconstrictors would make your experience worse
- There are a multitude of materials that protect from electro-magnetic radiation and frequencies – Some of this stuff is rated for military grade anti-espionage building material and can be expensive but any material that can act as a Faraday Cage will at least provide some level of protection. Even some anti-static, conductive grid ESD bags designed for protecting electrical equipment from static can act as a Faraday Cage and would be better than nothing.
- These frequencies can easily go through windows/glass and likely through walls if the signal is strong enough. If someone has access to a building they could even install a device being remotely controlled that will send out frequencies from inside the building itself. There’s electro-magnetic resistance fabric that could be used as clothing – one could even use those conductive grid bags as makeshift clothes or a blanket if the need is necessary.
- If you can find the direction of the source of this device, but can’t move yourself or stop it, then physically blocking the source to your best ability is your best bet. Block the windows or your body with physical material. While some electro-magnetic frequencies behave slightly different to sound waves, the same general physics applies and would still be at least somewhat effective in blocking a signal. This may seem silly or you make think you look crazy, but the effects of these weapons are not a joke and can kill people, you wouldn’t care in the middle of being attacked like this anyway.
The best thing you could do in a situation like this would be to physically move away from where you feel you’re being targeted. These devices don’t have a very long range, maybe the distance of a football field with a strong enough beam – and those devices would take a while to set-up, as well as need to have a safe place to house and maintain them. For this reason, if you feel you’re being targeted, a populated place is not going to be ideal. An apartment complex, condominium, or hotel is going to be a nightmare, as someone could easily move in across from your apartment and set-up a whole range of devices under the protection of the complex’s rules/laws itself, while attacking you comfortably. The best place to be would be a remote location on private property, such as a private home down a couple mile driveway that you can view and see your surroundings – if someone starts bothering you there it’s simple enough to call the local police and have the situation investigated or harassers booted off your property.
- It might also seem futile, or you may believe Law Enforcement would “think you’re crazy”, and you might be right. It might even make you more of a target, but it would be so important to report something like this because there are no laws and the more people that are putting in official reports about these types of experiences of knowledge of these weapons with reasons why they’d be targeted can only help everyone when it’s all said and done. They can ignore a couple people, but if 70 people all report the same thing in the same area for the same reasons, they literally can’t ignore it without causing massive problems for themselves or being accused of a cover-up, which is often evidence enough in itself. Laws will be made for this eventually, but only if enough people report it.
Reports from the Internet
There are currently many reports of these experiences online, which may or may not be difficult to find depending on how you search and what you’re looking for. This is not a new problem.
There are many Quora questions and responses based on this topic
