About Scary Screams
Scariest Screams was created by Professor Trevor Cox.
Screaming is a natural reaction when we are frightened and scared, but what makes a really good scream? Which scream is going to frighten people most - for instance are high pitched screams more frightening? Are women screaming more scary than men?
Trevor Cox is Professor of Acoustics at the University of Salford.and is investigating the sound quality of different screams as part of the Manchester Science Festival. The end of the Festival coincides with Halloween.
This website is for people to listen to a variety of screams and rate them for how scary they are. The screams are anonymous; people just hit play and rate scariness.
Trevor: "It is interesting listening back to the screams that we have 'harvested'. There are definitely some which seem to get to you more, sound much more scary, and we'd like to find out why"
Acknowledgements
Some of the sounds used came from Freesound. We would like to thank the following Freesound users:
FreqMan |Robinhood76 |thanvannispen |jrssandoval |analogchill |Syna-Max
