mistpouffer
English
editNoun
editmistpouffer (plural mistpouffers)
- (usually in the plural) An unexplained sound, like a cannon or a sonic boom, heard in various waterfront communities.
- 1896, Nature, volume 53, page 30:
- The mysterious noises, mentioned to me by Mr. Clement Reid, which are heard on Dartmoor and in Scotland near the Highland Fault, are not perhaps exactly comparable with "Mistpouffers" […]
- 1977, William R. Corliss, Handbook of unusual natural phenomena, page 369:
- Mistpouffers are dull, distant explosive sounds heard around the coast of Europe all the way to Iceland.
- 1994, Experimental Musical Instruments, volume 10, page 20:
- In addition to detonating minerals, more usual mistpouffer explanations range from great pockets of volatile gasses bubbling up from the sea bed and spontaneously igniting at the surface, to meteors […]