Aztec death whistles don't fit into any existing Western classification for wind instruments; they seem to be a unique kind of "air spring" whistle, based on CT scans of some of the artifacts.

The death whistle wasn’t merely a musical tool but a complex cultural artifact. Shaped like a skull, it likely represents Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec Lord of the Underworld .

The so-called Aztec “death whistle” is an instrument distinguished by producing a chilling sound, comparable to a person’s blood-curdling scream, and has been the subject of study for its possible ...

The Aztec Death Whistle makes a sound that's somewhere between a woman howling in pain, a spooky gust of whistling wind and 'the scream of a thousand corpses'.

Brave experts recently recreated the noise of the Aztec Death Whistle, by building a new version of the legendary instrument with a 3D printer.. They created their new whistles based on the design ...

In the 1990s, archeologists in Mexico City unearthed a 500-year-old skeleton near an ancient Aztec temple—a victim of human sacrifice. A grisly discovery, ...

The bone-chilling wail of the Aztec Death Whistle- a sound once believed to herald the end for human sacrifices- continues to send shivers down spines, even 500 years later. Described as “the ...

Aztec death whistle may have been used to prepare sacrifice victims for journey to the afterlife because of their ominous, scream-like sound ...

ANCIENT Aztec ‘death whistles’ have a strange ‘uncanny valley’-style effect on the human brain, new research has found. These clay instruments were often shaped like human s… ...

A replica of a whistle in the shape of a skull, called the whistle of death, created by Roberto Velazquez an expert in pre-Columbian sounds expert, in Mexico City, Friday, May 9, 2008.

The Aztec death whistle must create a spine-chilling atmosphere at night." A third admitted: "I have one, they're awesome. I have scared a few people at the park late at night lmao." ...