The mystery of the sand song heard emanating from sand dunes across the globe has scared, puzzled and amazed humans, striking fear and wonder in their hearts. Marco Polo commented when travelling across the Lop Desert in western China that “it is asserted as well-known fact that this desert is the abode of many evil spirits, which amuse travellers to their destruction with most extraordinary illusions.” (Hope, NY Moon, 2008) North Africans ascribed the “za’eeq al raml”, or shouting sand, to djinn as the loud, disembodied drone engulfed listeners and did not emanate from a clear epicentre.
