First Recorded in 1989, This Sound Still Stumps Scientists | Tales From the Bottle
Over 30 years later, this audio recording still has no definitive explanation – but the leading theory is pretty sad.
“The 52-hertz whale, colloquially referred to as 52 Blue, is an individual whale of unidentified species that calls at the unusual frequency of 52 hertz in the north Pacific Ocean between Aleutian and Kodiak Islands to the California coast. The whale itself has never been sighted: it has only been heard via hydrophones, but its call has been detected since the late 1980s in a pattern that matches the migration of the blue whale and the fin whale. Those species call at 10 to 39 Hz and 20 Hz respectively. Described as the “world’s loneliest whale”, it appeared to be the only individual emitting a whale call at this frequency. However, recordings of a second 52-hertz whale, heard elsewhere at the same time, have been sporadically found since 2010.
52 Hz is roughly equivalent to the musical note G#1, which is the 12th lowest key on a standard 88-key piano keyboard, or the 4th finger position on the lowest string (E1) of a double bass.”
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@backlash370
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Train it to sing in a different pattern gradually.
@katesvensen2261
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Actually the 52 Hz sound was quite loud.
@mariemilycraig
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
So that's what The Loneliest Whale episode of Octonauts was based on!! 💕
@BadMaskaw
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
0:55 I actually was.
@lornastone7602
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
sounded better before it was sped up🙂
@doubleaa7368
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
holy shit now way you dig thunderdome
@weinerdog3901
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
a sperm whale
they do go down further than any other air breathing mammals
@ACheeseCurl
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
2:21 Feel bad for that Dolphin as his lips don't look like mouth lips but ass lips.
@RezaQin
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Does it sound like a magma displacement or…whales humping?
@Mister_42
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
It’s your mum.
@Mister_42
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
0:34 Aphex Twin
@jacquesaubin4454
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
"a hundred million castaways, looking for a home…. I'll send an SOS to the world"
@francoisleveille409
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
"If you're having trouble hearing this …" it's because you're talking. 🤨
@jeffcummins1302
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Do you really have a hardcore track?
@PaulDoherty-y7s
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Cool name for a band.
@davidgold5961
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Like Wall-E, he is all alone now.
@JoshuaAndres
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
If this happened today, the internet would go on a quest to get this whale laid, just like that snail from a few years ago
@yootoobsuks4210
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
The last basilosaurus. Oh wait… Those had teeth. Nevermind. Feel free to swim around in the ocean. I'm sure history's largest sea predator isn't looking for love (and a light snack).
@FREDGARRISON
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Maybe it's MOBY DICK farting. Look for bubbles on the surface….
@Gabrieleveretts-3
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
The year i was born
@TJTinerella
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
My dogs heard the call….they woke up and started looking for something to bark at
@ZombieSnax-g2l
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Hear me out : Giant Squid hunt Whales right ? What if somehow they could only do that one call and their hearing squid try to bait whales… lolz. Kinda
@starwizardmanonthestarwiza2469
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
It kind of sounds like the Somerset hum
@uncleshawnofthejungle29
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Does it bother anybody else? How very little we know about the ocean? We spent trillions of dollars trying to fly to Outer space and we know exactly about 75% of the planet we live on greater if you factor in volume.
@uncleshawnofthejungle29
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
If you listen close, you can almost make out what it’s trying to say.
“ have you seen my baseball?”
@uncleshawnofthejungle29
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Here’s the thing. In this amount of time following a distinct migratory pattern they would’ve accidentally run into another whale by now. I mean you’re talking 50 years. My question is how many whales of a similar call frequency yeah I know the guy said none but clearly we’re thinking blue whale how many whales disappeared without a trace over that time.?
When I sit in my tree stand during deer hunting season, I probably sound a little bit like a deer. But I’m not.
Something to think about. What if it’s hunting?
@uncleshawnofthejungle29
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
When they started talking about the low frequency in the distance difference of the ability to call between different types of whales and immediately made me think of elephants
@MartinBeerbom
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
"It's doubtful our SONAR would even pick it up. And if it does, it might sound like whales humping, or a seismic anomaly … anything but a submarine."
@theRealme-o8m
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Can you please not show ridiculous film clips..it makes your video's less believable..unless that's the audience you're pandering to?
@86angrybees
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
He’s had a shrimp stuck in his throat since the 80s. It’s Gotta suck
@bigleciezki
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
His calls have at last been translated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBZAy2ky7XY&list=RDKBZAy2ky7XY&start_radio=1
@khj512
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
What if one type of whale makes this specific call but only when they're lost? Seems like it's made near migratory patterns
@fdcdrifter
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
What if its something eating whales
@DetonatressM
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
The first sound at 52 Hz sounds exactly like what I hear sometimes in my house or at my workplace but only in the left ear. It caused me to go see an ENT doctor, but so far no treatments have stopped the weird sound. I guess I'll have an MRI scan to figure out if it's my ear/head or the sound is real.
@raylenemurutes6506
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
I'm guessing it doesn't breath oxygen?
@p33lz86
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Its a killer monster mimicking whales to try and lure them to the deep 😮..
@JustanIdea2023
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Has anyone sent the same sound back out to tru and see if it will talk back… seems more like a mechanical becon. Especially sounding like a beep loop. But that long and no one found visual spotting it… decoded that its the same as the singal that came back from space…..
@SambuuSambuu-i2i
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Sounds like distant construction
@clydebear6914
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
The Abyss! Aliens!
@Spudcore
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
The nu metal whales made me lol. Maybe 52 Blue is the whale equivalent of a power electronics fan.
P.S. HAAARDCOOOOORE!
@zer0pro
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Thumbs up for the Thunderdome shirt!
@jaspertickler1831
June 9, 2026 at 5:44 pm
An excellent vid in a sea of bollox vids
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