Siren Head is a fictional cryptid created by Canadian horror artist Trevor Henderson in 2018. First posted on social media, before entering into cosmic horror lore. Siren Head is depicted as a very tall, cadaver-like humanoid creature. With a pair of sirens in place of its head. These sirens can emit various sounds; including emergency alerts, snippets of conversations, and most commonly reported, unsettling noises.
Siren Head can also mimic voices and sounds, using this ability to lure and deceive its prey. It can remain motionless for days on end, blending into its surroundings, especially in areas with nearby tall structures, or old woodlands with large clearings. Siren Head continues to be a popular figure in the realm of internet horror. Inspiring both fans and creators to explore evolving and increasingly terrifying narratives. Henderson’s original outline of Siren Head can be considered to be the initial sigil that has now been charged by fan fiction and people’s fears of Siren Head, to the point where people all over the world are claiming they have encountered Siren Head in real life.
THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT.
We all know from our childhood that our fears can cause us to see and experience things if we pour enough of our emotional heightened state into them. A pile of clothes on the bed can start to resemble a demon staring back at us and so on. Then there is also what Carl Jung termed the Catalytic Exteriorisation Phenomenon when our minds—using something akin to Telekinesis—can make physical changes in the environment around us while also in a heightened emotional state. Think of the glass on a table exploding by itself when a couple is having a row in front of their child and so on. I myself caused a wardrobe to bang and shake violently when I was about seven after having watched a terrifying TV documentary on ghosts.
However, there is also another kind of unwarranted manifestation; in that when the collective concentrates their intense psychic attention upon a certain fictional entity, or semi-fictional entities, then people will start to see it. This has been well documented within the Marian Apparitions, with the most famous being at Fatima in 1917. However, it is not always exclusively connected to religious visions.
John Keel, the brilliant maverick ufologist and author of The Mothman Prophecies, was also the first author to throw doubts on the concept that these lights in the sky were alien spacecraft and that they represented something far deeper and possibly organic. Being an investigator of the Fortean and paranormal, one of Keel’s reports concerned an apartment building in Greenwich Village in New York where Walter B. Gibson creator of The Shadow radio plays and stories worked intensely during the 1930s, creating this mysterious radio drama which debuted on July 31, 1930, and ran for many years, eventually becoming a cultural phenomenon.
The Shadow radio plays were notable for ethereal and haunting narration and production. Millions of Americans became riveted to the program while listening to their radios late at night, hanging on to every phrase and plot twist. So much so, that many people began to believe that The Shadow must be real. For many years after Walter B. Gibson’s death, and in the same Greenwich Village building where he wrote The Shadow, people who had never listened to—or even knew about The Shadow radio plays—reported seeing a man dressed like The Shadow all over the building and inside the apartment where Walter B. Gibson had worked day and night creating the stories using hundreds of reams of typing paper.
By some manner of quantum entity encapsulation, The Shadow manifested into a form. Much of this was due to the psychic energy of New Yorkers being fearful of rising crime in the city at the time, and they needed to create a Shadow to alleviate their fears. Especially during the uncertainty of the Great Depression. Interestingly enough, it was the same event/period in which H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos also grew.
SEEING IS MORE THAN JUST BELIEVING
Siren Head I can believe is now a reality. Same with the Cenobites of Hellraiser fame (purple-haired, trans activists and progressives). Put enough psychic energy into something and it becomes a thing and not just a story. The mythology of Siren Head arose in tandem with wind turbines taking over the natural landscape and preying upon millions of birds as they make their whirring noises. There is a huge sympathetic landscape magic/environomicon element to all this. In many ways, the manifestations of beings such as Siren Head present us with more truths about the world we live in than conventional discourse can provide us with.
The world is a far stranger place than most realise, and our ancestors saw the world as being haunted by fairies and spirits as an extension of their animistic desires within their own time of psychic warfare—that also made its way into European folklore—had a better grasp on reality than we so-called modern humans do today. Siren Head has become real, because at some level, we need him to be real to deal with the madness and distortions of the ‘rational’ world.
This is fascinating… I expect madness to accelerate as we move toward November. The past few days I have been in a pathetic state… tears flowing freely and riddled with despair. Anyone else experiencing this?
Thomas, I am thankful to have access to your wisdom and insight as I ride the wave function collapse and see reality melting in front of my eyes. In chaos there is opportunity, right?
I remember reading a thread about this Siren Head on Facebook. Lots of parents were saying their children were terrified and one said her son had watched it at 3yrs old and 'can barely look at a lamp now'. It was funny but I felt sorry for that wee guy who should not have been exposed to it on YouTube.
The kids are looking at mad stuff on there with no parental supervision, no one to explain it's just a story and comfort them when they experience this fear.