A group of neighborhood children have a lifelong story after a man decided to scare them off his property in the best possible way.

Music producer and audio engineer Stephen Kane lives in Huntsville, Alabama, and has a large collection of “unusual instruments,” including an Aztec death whistle.

First discovered during an excavation of an Aztec temple, the mysterious instrument is shaped like a skull and emits a wind-like sound, according to a report published in the peer-reviewed The World of Music.

But the biggest reproductions take the form of a loud, terrifying scream, and this was exactly what Kane had on his list when he noticed a group of children loitering outside his property in the run-up to Halloween.

“I was working on music and I got an alert on my doorbell,” Kane explained to news week.

“There were kids hanging around, which is not unusual and doesn’t really bother me. my neighborhood It is very active and unique. With Halloween approaching and having the Whistle of Death nearby, I had the idea to scare them.”

He continued, “I took the whistle into the backyard and faced it in one direction so that the sound of the whistle would reflect off the side of my neighbor’s house and into the street for maximum volume.”

The moment Kane used the whistle to scare children has now gone viral, after he shared the Video footage of the ring to your instagram account, @sprkane, on October 30.

With more than 5.3 million views and 300,000 likes, the video shows a group of what appear to be young teenagers hanging around outside Kane’s driveway, simply talking to each other.

He wrote in the caption: “POV: Kids hanging out in your front yard, but you have an Aztec death whistle. *grabs whistle and goes to backyard*.”

The quiet night is then completely shattered by a loud, long, terrifying screech (Kane blowing the whistle) and after going completely still in shock, the boys start screaming and cursing, with some nervous laughter thrown in, and leave. down the street

“I caught them with the death whistle,” Kane laughed in the caption, and Instagram users responded en masse, as one of them wrote, “That day, an urban legend (started). Those kids are going to be ‘ hunting ghosts’ for years.”

“No, that’s funny. They probably talked about it all night, you told them a great story,” another agreed.

Others wanted a whistle of their own, with one asking, “I wonder if I could get one of these as a car horn…”

Kane said news week She looked at the images with friends before sharing them on social media and “had no idea” it would go viral, but “it was really exciting” when it did.

As for some commenters complaining that he shouldn’t have scared the kids, he clarified that he’s not a grumpy old man “with one fist pumping the air yelling ‘get off my lawn!’ Was just a joke“.

He added that he hasn’t seen the children return to his property since that night, but “I’m sure a new myth, legend, rumor, etc. has emerged from the neighborhood.”

He added: “If it were me growing up, I would have told this story a million times growing up, especially having friends who confirmed my story!”

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