Huldufólk

Slot canyons in the Colorado Plateau, where narrow sandstone passages open into wider chambers, produce infrasonic resonance during windstorms that has been recorded by seismographs stationed at the canyon rim.

Basalt box canyons in Iceland, formed by lava flows that cooled into vertical walled enclosures, produce low frequency drones during the persistent winds of the North Atlantic that local folklore attributed to the voices of hidden people, the Huldufolk, living inside the rock.

The explanation is mechanical, geometrical, a matter of air volume and aperture size.

The feeling is visceral and old.

Well, okay.

So there's this Icelandic folklore called the Hidden People or the Huldufolk.

And they kind of had it a bit in that Eurovision movie with the little elves.

So I looked into it.

I read, I read translations.

It's like they're Grimm's brothers.

Like what's the Grimm's brothers fairy tales of the Huldufolk.

And in their versions and their folklore, there are these tall, gorgeous, beautiful, they're human beings, but they're better in every way.