Thunder? Earthquake? Skyquake? Montrealers on the western side of the island reported as many as three tremendous booms that rattled homes early in the morning of March 25.
Montrealers have been taking to social media Thursday to ask the same question: What was the sound that shook people out of their beds at approximately 3:26 a.m.?
Anecdotal reports have described the flash as being followed by a sonic boom — as many as two loud booms followed by a longer one — that rattled homes and shook people out of bed.
“Breaking the sound barrier? (An) exploding train station? We clearly have no tectonic plates that can move (closely together)……”
The sound and light may have been isolated, as Montrealers largely on the western side of the island — and residents of towns as far off as Huntingdon — are talking about it. Weather reports show a storm approaching from the west.
“Maybe it was just because it (struck) overhead, but the sound had nothing to do with the strength of the thunderstorm. … We don’t know exactly why it was that loud,” Simon Legault, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, told the Montreal Gazette.
Strangely enough, this isn’t the first time the West Island has reported huge, thunderous sounds above them. Last year in July, Dollard-des-Ormeaux residents heard an eerie noise that they said sounded like trumpets in the sky.
Thunder? Earthquake? Skyquake? I guess we will never know what really happened last night around 3:30AM in Montréal.
More Mysterious Skyquakes. More Sky Trumpets.
