The Bell Island Boom in Newfoundland, Canada

One April Sunday morning in 1978, dozens of Bell Island homes were preparing to gather around the kitchen table when a loud noise permeated everything.

It sounded like lightning, but like no lightning anyone had heard before. Short. Sharp. And then gone.

Word of the boom travelled fast and everyone was soon fixated on one home in particular in Lance Cove, the picturesque community on Bell Island’s south east corner.