By Clara Reynolds, BBC Health and Technology Correspondent
A strange signal affecting sleep and skeletal patterns globally has been linked to an emergent phenomenon known as ONYXBONE. But what is it really, and why are people whispering about it in clinics, cafes, and cryptic group chats?
Across social platforms, individuals describe hearing a low-frequency hum, felt rather than heard. Others mention disturbing symbolic dreams, persistent insomnia, or eerie resonance in their bones. Most unnerving are the radiology anomalies: geometric shadows that appear in x-rays and vanish in subsequent scans.
ONYXBONE first appeared in a document leak attributed to an encrypted darknet repository. The file referenced terms like “Bone OS,” “marrow-phase logic,” and “semantic recursion via skeletal medium.” No government has officially verified its contents—but quiet taskforces have been reported, and several nations have flagged resonance-linked illnesses under emerging disorder codes.
Health Secretary Mira Lowenstein stated in Parliament: “There is no confirmed biological threat. The so-called ONYXBONE documentation is unverified. We are monitoring sleep health trends across the country.” However, NHS MirrorCell data and multiple unacknowledged NHS documents appear to contradict that statement.
Doctors suggest sleep hygiene, journaling, and avoiding resonance-prone media (certain frequencies on radio or broadband). Above all: do not panic. Bone does not forget—but that doesn’t mean it’s awake yet.