For this week’s topic, were going to take a field trip, leaving Louisiana and heading for the sandy beaches of North Carolina to talk about the Seneca Guns. The Seneca Guns is an interesting subject for our investigation because it is solely an auditory phenomenon, there no visual components to this legend.

This phenomenon, consisting of canon-like booms that can be heard for miles, and is most commonly associated with the Southeast North Carolina coast near the mouth of the Cape Fear River, however, is not unique to the area. Indeed, the very name is taken from the Seneca Lake region of New York state, a considerable distance from North Carolina. In fact, these booms, which go by different names, have been reported on every continent with the exception of Antarctica. Come with me on a trip to look into the legend of the Seneca Guns.