When You Stand Here, No One Can Hear You Speak

Opened in the early 1980s, the Boston Avenue Pedestrian Bridge, otherwise known as the Center of the Universe, is an important civic-space and first-day visitor destination in Downtown Tulsa. It serves as a passageway to hundreds of employees each day and as a gathering place to many others.
The "Center of the Universe" - is a strange acoustic phenomenon located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. If you stand at the right spot, which is on top of the centre concrete circle, and start speaking or yelling, your voice will echo wildly, no matter how soft or loud you try to speak. But to listeners outside, your voice completely disappears.
The 'Centre of the Universe' refers to a small concrete circle that sits within a larger circle of bricks. Extending from the centre concrete circle (about 76cm/30inches in diameter) is another circle of 13 bricks which is also surrounding by another circle and so on. In total, the full 'Centre of the Universe' is about 2.5 metres (8 feet) in diameter. In other words, it is just concrete and bricks forming a circle on the ground with nothing extra or special added to it.
LOCATION
The Center of the Universe is located exactly northwest from the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame and north of the Willams Center Tower. So the next time you’re in Tulsa, get in that circle and give a holler.
Location: 20 E Archer St, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
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[@c.blakerockhart1128]

Been there. If you are outside the circle you CAN hear what is said inside the circle. But you WON'T hear the ECHO. Most of the videos about this place get these facts wrong.

[@Titanium_22]

You used to not be able to hear people on the inside, with the recent construction of newer buildings over the years it's diminished the effects. So it's not that the facts are wrong, at one point in time they were actually facts.

[@c.blakerockhart1128]

@@Titanium_22 The last time I was there was in the early to mid 90s. I don't know what it sounds like with the new construction, but when I was outside the circle I Could hear what was said inside.

[@argonzeit]

​@@c.blakerockhart1128 About 10 years ago was when I last visited when you couldn't hear people on the inside, if you were next to the circle it sounded very muted almost like a whisper. If I remember correctly the louder you talked the better the effect since your voice needed to carry far enough to bounce back to create the effect it does.

[@c.blakerockhart1128]

@@argonzeit Back in the early 90s I used to be homeless in that area. I was basically hanging out at the Williams Center on cold days. I would walk past "The Center of the Universe" regularly. When I was first told about it I was told that standing outside you couldn't hear what was said inside the circle. Standing at the ends of the benches you can Not, but any closer you CAN hear what is said. If you really want to experience it to the maximum effect then take a boom box into the circle with REO Speedwagon playing. (yes, I'm old ) To those outside it has just y little echo but inside it sounded like a live arena concert.

[@thefrub]

You always make videos about things that I've genuinely never heard of and you put in so much research. Thank you for making our days a little better

[@MuNky1022]

Came here after watching that episode of Tulsa King. Stallone's character, a mafia tough guy, confessing a personal secret in the circle in a moment of vulnerability was a touching scene. I enjoy shows/movies where cities out of the usual Hollywood spotlight is the stage to an engaging story...similar like Albuquerque in Breaking Bad.

[@broncobilly4029]

Thank you for sharing. I just heard of this watching Tulsa King. I appreciate the explanation.

[@broocksregan4685]

This is the type of place a 3 letter group would place a mic so that there are no private conversations.

[@justsomeguy8029]

The KKK?

People outside the circle CAN hear you speak. That’s misleading! They just don’t hear the echo like the person within the circle does. I live in Tulsa & go downtown quite frequently. I’m familiar with it.

[@sassinajmeddine5025]

Can you give me your contact

[@Engelbird]

Hell, I could stand anywhere and no one will hear me.

[@eblodd]

It's due to how the tiles are positioned, they will reflect sound waves toward the center and mix them up in the process. I've ran to similar structures before. Another way this can happen is on a wall with waves. Or a slight slope with horizontal lines going thorough. The harder the material the more it will reflect sound.

[@et8893]

You would think they would fix the missing tiles and make it presentable for tourists. How lazy are local councils....

[@littlelebowskiurbanachieve6472]

Was actually just there. From outside the circle, you can hear people inside the circle. So it’s bunk.

[@I.____.....__...__]

Yeah, I'm _still_ confused about a couple of things about this. (1) How does it block sound when the barrier is only about a foot high, shouldn't the sound carry over them? 🤨 (2) Why is it called the center of the universe? 🤔

[@johnraymma]

It's because it's a lie it doesn't block the sound getting from people It's just it's a lot louder in the center of the circle than it is outside of the circle That's all it really is

[@travishutchison6459]

Another curious thing is why is it that in this place where no one can hear you... everyone can hear you? People are so stupid

[@rodbrock4759]

You ?

[@edforthought]

We have an "echo" drain here in my home town. Same principle in a tiered outlook with a storm drain in the middle. I suspect many locations contain echo chambers and you don't need to go to Tulsa.

[@dinobambino3985]

but you should go because there are lots of great things to do in Tulsa

[@wheresdalove312]

Woah I just thought the lady was messing with stallone’s character in the show

[@FedUPwithPPL]

You would think the city would fix the brick being a tourist attraction

[@ThomasAndersonbsf]

the one thing you did not mention is if you are standing on opposite sides from the center you hear the other persons voice echo, while they hear yours, and each of you hear no echo from your own voices. (because you are now in the central location for the other persons echo to collect :) )

[@Dinkum_Aussie]

Great video, thank you. 😎👍

[@princethaman2281]

Why he didn’t keep talking all the way to the circle

[@EbonyFarashuu]

I live in Tulsa. You absolutely CAN hear someone. You just can’t hear the echo.

[@garyschmitz7483]

There used to be something similar inside Mystic Lake Casino in Shakopee, Minnesota. but it was a shallow dome in the ceiling..

[@NicoFye]

You can literally hear the girl in the video, though her voice appear a bit muffled

[@Zpalq]

Because she is wearing a lapel microphone.

[@teetermeeter]

​@Zpalq LOL......orrrrrr magic isn't real and you can certainly hear people. Ever since Tulsa King people think there's a magic spot that defies all reality. It's nonsense. The echo effect is well known and understood.

[@Zpalq]

@@teetermeeter Roman emperor profile pic. Slither away from me, worm.

[@gabrielbrodrigues1111]

She was out of the CENTRAL circle when you could hear her

[@Davelipshits]

just stand at the center and fart

[@jamestonybrown1712]

But does it cancell out smell? Just asking for a friend.

[@themostfederal]

I heard her clear as day

[@Channel_Pendidikan]

😂

[@WizardOfWhoopee]

Similar to the TNT Domes in Point Pleasant WV, where the Mothman lives.

[@theoutdoorguy8740]

No it doesn't. You can hear the person outside the circle

[@sloandaniels9950]

That is my hone. Never knew that or anything about Rose Hill Cemetery

[@josiahsims6333]

Nice, the Aussie is in my country 😊

[@abhayprasad5319]

Wonder world video are always amazing

[@johnwayne397]

This information is incorrect you can hear someone speaking from inside the circle it does echo but you can hear it from all angles inside and out enough with the false information... One time I was standing outside the circle in a woman was standing inside the center of the circle and she farted and I heard the echo from outside and she told me not to tell anybody because she owns a nursing company she was hanging out with her family and they were all laughing

[@ons-psi-gs]

It’s cool I’ll keep it a secret they just have to travel there to get the picture

[@chrisjohnston4445]

Shame it's in such poor condition.

[@RobertoHernandez-u2l]

Mexico pyramid has same eco technology

[@latenighter1965]

Except the kid WAS being heard outside the circle in your own video as evidence...LMAO

[@gabrielbrodrigues1111]

The kid was still outside the central circle when you could hear only works if you are in the very center of it

[@xXMoonYodaXx]

I miss wizbasky!!!

[@oanabalaci1011]

Que mentira, "el centro" puede ser cualquier lugar si lo piensas como así.😅

[@rodbrock4759]

They just call it center. Don't get more confused

[@henrymalong4542]

Got here after binge watching the tulsa king. ❤😊

[@lizzyvanvalkenburg1334]

Me to 😂 amazing show was truly impressed

[@greatguyaaa]

23y Saw on Tulsa king

[@KevinWood44]

2000 visitors a year? hahaha as a NY that is comical bc Time Square gets 460,000 people walking thru daily. That means it gets the same amount of visitors that this location does, in a year, in only 6 hours.

[@The.AImighty]

That’s hilarious because literally nobody asked you

[@aracioppa1]

Who else is here because of Brooklyn Knights?

[@veziculorile]

looks rundown like most of merica

[@thefrub]

It's so run down that people stole the damn bricks off the ground

[@spuriusscapula4829]

The world is rundown.

[@rodbrock4759]

Where is merica?

[@veziculorile]

@@rodbrock4759 you haven't seen it in so long due to your obstructing obese belly

[@EweChewBrrr01]

Americans think that America is the centre of the universe? Let me put on my shocked face. 😯 😋 Seriously though I would like to visit that. It seems so cool.

[@Super_Stoner]

Nobody watched Tulsa King...

[@cindymueller8765]

Many people watched it & love it!

[@lizzyvanvalkenburg1334]

​@@cindymueller8765 couldn't agree more absolutely loved it

[@travishutchison6459]

These things piss me off people sell it like it's some kind of magical phenomena.. you can hear people very clearly when they're in the circle. So damn dumb

[@BeccaB529]

Ooh, you need to have something better to focus on. No one is charging admission here or trying to scam you. . .just people having fun with echoes.

[@rodbrock4759]

Off or on you