Many already get the creeps when they have to board a plane.

It is a nightmare scenario for them to float in a machine several kilometers above the earth and be exposed to the forces of the air.

So what happened on board several American Airlines planes should have frightened many passengers - unless they found the psychologically clever way to take it with humor.

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Like film producer Emerson Collins, who flew from Los Angeles to Dallas.

The video, which he has now posted on social media, shows him during the flight.

Strange, human-sounding noises repeatedly emanate from the loudspeakers: moans, grunts, a sharp exclamation of a male voice.

A ghost?

Collins tells the camera, "Someone on this flight seems to have hacked into the communications system and is making a noise the whole time that sounds like a mixture of vomiting and orgasm."

Then an official announcement sounds: “A very irritating noise is coming from our loudspeakers.

We're trying to turn it off.

Please bear with us, we know this is a very strange anomaly and no one enjoys it.” Collins just grins.

"Well I had my fun," he writes in the subtitles.

A flight attendant passing by said, "I swear, this is a prank." Collins told the Washington Post that the noise had started before take-off and was heard repeatedly, especially at the beginning of the flight.

The video has now been liked by more than 32,000 users on Twitter, and it has received an impressive 162,000 likes on Tiktok.

In the comments, passengers on other American Airlines flights write that they have experienced something similar.

"It didn't go like this for the whole flight, the strange noises and tones came in phases," tweeted journalist Doug Boehner.

“There was a big 'oh yeah' upon landing.

We thought the pilot left the mic on.”

Thrown your microphone in the toilet?

According to other reports, the problem also appeared occasionally on American Airlines flights in July and August.

The flight attendants would not have known what was happening to them.

"The Ghost" appeared in both Airbus and Boeing machines.

All sorts of sensible and pointless conspiracy theories were circulating on Twitter: Did a passenger throw a microphone in the toilet?

Has anyone actually hacked into the system?

Or was he just sick?

According to the Washington Post, a spokeswoman for American Airlines has made it clear that communication on the plane takes place without external access or WLAN.

One of the affected aircraft was checked and found "that the noise was caused by a mechanical problem with the amplifier, which increases the volume of the system when the engines are running".

Film producer Emerson Collins doesn't want to give up the ghost theory completely yet - after all, that's his business.

"The ghost in the machine has a great sense of humor," he told the Washington Post.

"The timing seems far too good for it to be just a technical error." But: "I have no idea."