{"id":276635,"date":"2026-06-23T15:25:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=276635"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:35:59","slug":"australian-town-crier-enters-guinness-world-records-for-loudest-shout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/276635\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian town crier enters Guinness World Records for loudest shout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cover your ears and meet Joseph McGrail-Bateup, Canberra’s official town crier and the new record-holder for the loudest ever shout, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Is there anything more satisfying for a man whose job is to scream than to be hailed as the world’s loudest person?<\/p>\n

This honor has been bestowed upon Joseph McGrail-Bateup, an Australian professional air conditioner cleaner and honorary town crier.<\/p>\n

Guinness World Records last week acknowledged the 58-year-old Canberra resident recorded the loudest ever shout by an individual. He yelled “now” at 122.4 decibels.<\/p>\n

That broke the previous record of 121.7 dB set by Northern Ireland schoolteacher Annalisa Flanagan in 1994. She had yelled an ear-piercing “quiet.” That is in the noise range of a chain saw, a jet aircraft taking off and an ambulance siren at close range.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cover your ears and meet Joseph McGrail-Bateup, Canberra’s official town crier and the new record-holder for the loudest ever shout, Euronews writes. Is there anything more satisfying for a man whose job is to scream than to be hailed as the world’s loudest person? This honor has been bestowed upon Joseph McGrail-Bateup, an Australian professional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":276630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,98,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-en","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276637,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276635\/revisions\/276637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}