Here’s a little fact for those who didn’t know: This video was released in 2011 before we found out who was really singing this. In it, we remove noise trying to depict the voice of this “woman”. When we finally translated the frequency of the noise to the original voice when it was originally recorded, we decoded it into a voice of a man, most likely Leon Scott himself.

This is lowkey scary asf but the person that created this was a genius and created something amazing

Only 1860's kids Will remember

My mic at zoom class:

This was recorded when: Nikola Tesla: 4 years old Vincent Van Gogh: 7 years old Thomas Edison: 13 years old Alfred Nobel: 27 years old Abraham Lincoln: 51 years old Napoleon III : 52 years old Pope pius IX: 68 years old

You're hearing the voice of someone from over 150 years ago. Just amazing

No one: My little cousins when they talk to me on the phone:

Even though this sounds creepy it is still extremely fascinating that we can hear audio from the freaking 1860s

Pov: the kid with really bad internet joins and his internet slowly comes back up

Nobody: nothing Ghasts when there floating around in the nether:

imagine you wake up in the middle of the night to here that

I listen in 2021.160 years have passed, can you imagine?

bruh this guy is dead and sounds better than me

Sounds like that one annoying mosquito that buzzes by your ear at night

"Bro my mic is good" Bros mic:

Me: **plays with random people online** Their microphones:

Imagine... This is the only thing remaining of that person, and he has to go down in history as a creepy recording.

Before video: "Oh wow the oldest recorded sound must have pretty bad quality. But it's probably pretty easy to understand it" After video: *Crying rocking in the corner of the room"

All fun and games until you hear this in the middle of a forest late at night

Finally a rapper who doesn't mumble

People in 1860 be like: " I say! This is Crystal clear it sounds like he's directly in the room"

I waited 160 years for this

How is this scary? This is fascinating; I watched this years ago, and it’s good to be back!

This is the most beautiful audio I ever heard💖

Imagine sleeping in the dark and you hear this coming from you bathroom or hallway

It sounds scary, but keep in mind somebody in a normal voice actually sang into this machine and it came out like this. Good job. The microphone

I don’t know why I looked into this tonight, but I immediately regret it. Mostly because it’s 1:45am.

This one really hit me for some reason. There's something about knowing this person is gone, and their voice has become a ghost-like relic of a time long ago that makes it sad, and therefore uncomfortable. I can see why others call it scary, even if they didn't know why at first. It makes me weirded out that Boomers - Gen Alpha have been the only real generations in history to experience high quality recording, processing and storage to make our lives last forever. So many great people and their experiences pre-1920 have been lost to time. It's bittersweet, but also at the same time makes me appreciate my own place in time more. And I'm sure the people of the 1800s did too, just in a different way. We'll never know (at least from a non-textual standpoint), maybe that makes their lives special, it's what makes this special.

Think of it like this, what you’re hearing is someone singing to you from over 150 years ago... you’re hearing the voice of someone who lived during Abraham Lincoln

The mosquito in my room at night

do i understand this? nope, do i love it? yes, am i gonna have nightmares because of this? also yes

No autotune 🔥🔥🔥🔥

this how kids on xbox still sound to this day

Only 1860s kids will remember

yes I am here from muta, only because it reminded me that this existed

That one guy's mic:

it sounds like a cat singing arabic beautifully

Still listening in 2020! Yeah baby!

Damn i didnt know we were mosquitos back then

170 years ago. It’s hard to fathom

This song was #1 for fifty two weeks in a row on the Billboard Music chart of 1860.

First one sounds like when you drop your phone and it's recording

the teacher on the zoom call asking if we can hear them ok

Xbox kids on the mic

4 year old me singing on my Fisher Price recorder

It sounds creepier with each restoration lol

I couldn't sleep because of this

I am here after watch first recorded computer in the world that can singing. now I go here to hear what it sound like, the first human recorded voice. and I completely unexpected this.

It's like you're literally listening to a ghost.

that one dude who's eating the mic

Who still jammin in 2021?

This was recorded right before the Civil War. Let that sink in.

That one kid uses free microphone from wish :

"Au clair de la lune. Mon ami Pierrot. Prête..."

this sounds like 8 year old me trying to record ''Au clair de la lune'' on my DSi

When your younger sibling finds out that you can record your voice on your phone

Earliest rendition of Darude - Sandstorm

Hearing from the ghosts from the past.

That is actually terrifying but amazing to be able to hear these all these years later

Wenn man sein ps4 Headset nach 3 Jahren wieder benutzt

he was probably so excited to actually get a sound!! I'm so proud of him. He did great for his time

Why is everyone here so recent like this was nine years ago 😱

0:40-0:48 it is actually very pretty

I regret watching this in the dark at 3 am

Imagine how crazy it would be, having your voice heard back to you for the first time ever

Its creepy that the comments were just like hours ago

I use to believe that this was the first ever voice recording of a spirit because it sounded terrifying if you play it in the dark, but in a way it’s good to know that the inventor is still being acknowledged in the future

Did I just listen to a restoration of a voice recording done 160 years ago? That is amazing!

Me singing under the shower

You youngins wouldn’t understand this was the bts of our day

This is 162 years old 😮

This recording is truly from a completely different era, they were just barely into the modern era. Creepy and fascinating. Especially considering that there's no one alive that was from that time.

Only 1860s kids will remember this one.

Upvote if you're listening in 1874.

so i’m not going to bed

We found out that this is suppose to be played at half the speed and is the inventor himself singing it.

Only 1860s kids will remember this

Sounds like an auto tuned cat meow

It's kinda weird listening to this, this is the voice of someone who has died almost 2 centuries ago, and this haunting voice is the only thing now left of them, it's kinda freaky

So that’s how the Enderman Sounds was made

The amount of restoration that is needed to make this recognizable as a human voice and make it audible is amazing. At first, it sounds like somekind of monster or something, but then its starts to sound more and more like a man's voice. Pretty amazing what that mufflegraph can do.

I like how so many people watching this in like 2 hours ago

It sounds like a girl, but it’s apparently the voice of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, who recorded it. The recording’s pitch is just very off.

Imagine, everyone alive during this sound recording is long dead.

A song by Puking Cat Lyrics: AAAAaaaaAAAAaa Only 1880 kids will remember

To hear the voice of someone who’s been dead for hundreds of years… not a scan of their vocal cords. A real thing they actually said… it made me feel like there were ghosts all around me. This would make a good supernatural investigation show or horror movie.

1860: This is incredible. We can record sound 21st century: The quality is so bad it will give me nightmares

this is as fascinating as it is terrifying

We are actually hearing someone who at that same time there were Cowboys in Saloons and Stagecoaches making runs. That's amazing

Guys, what did you expect? It has been recorded in 1860, I'm surprised how this got saved after so many years!

ok I came here because I was curious now i'll have nightmares for life

"Au clair de la lune, mon ami Pierrot", it's a famous french song

Mero ohne autotune

No one: That one kid with the bad mic in ur zoom classes:

Only 1860’s kids will remember this one

2016 and still listening.

creepiness aside it’s amazing how much the restorer was able to bring out the actual tune

music in 1860's movies: *badass whistling, mariachi, harmonica, and electric guitars* music in the real 1860's: this shit

kids nowadays dunno how things were so pure back in 1800's. Nostalgic

This is kinda scary but that was cool that you restored it