A Small Update From Behind the Curtain

Before I sign off today, I wanted to share a little update about Strange Sounds.

Many of you have been following this site for years—some of you for more than a decade—and you may have noticed that things have been slowly changing behind the scenes.

That’s because I’ve been working on the biggest rebuild in the site’s history.

It’s been... enormous.

Over the past months, I’ve gone through tens of thousands of articles. I’ve rewritten old pages, created entirely new ones, reorganized topics, merged years of duplicate content, built hundreds of evergreen guides, and created thousands of redirects so that nothing valuable gets lost.

Some days I spent more time cleaning old content than writing new stories.

It wasn’t always glamorous.

In fact, it was often just me, a cup of coffee, and thousands of browser tabs asking, “Does this belong here... or over there?”

But there’s a reason for all this work.

When Strange Sounds started, it was simply a blog where I shared fascinating stories about strange natural phenomena.

Fifteen years later, it has become something much bigger.

My goal is to transform it into the internet’s largest encyclopedia of strange natural phenomena, Earth mysteries, unusual weather, geological events, astronomy, archaeology, and the incredible planet we all share.

Not clickbait.

Not politics.

Not doom scrolling.

Just curiosity.

A place where someone wondering about a mysterious boom, an unusual cloud, a rare geological event, or an ancient archaeological mystery can actually find a well-organized explanation.

The good news?

I’m finally approaching the finish line.

At least for the structure.

What’s left now is the fun part: redesigning the layout and making everything easier—and hopefully more enjoyable—to explore.

I already have a clear vision for what I want the new Strange Sounds to look like.

I think you’re going to like it.

More importantly, I hope it becomes a resource you’ll keep coming back to whenever the world does something wonderfully strange.

Thank you for reading.

Thank you for your emails, comments, corrections, and encouragement over the years.

Most of all, thank you for staying curious.

The world never stops surprising us.

Neither will Strange Sounds.

See you tomorrow for another collection of signals from our wonderfully weird planet.

— Manuel