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Watch as he gets really, really excited about this revelation and then searches for more stones so he can hear the sound again. **Quiz**: [_Can You Guess These Back to School Prices?_](http://time.com/4461726/back-to-school-prices/) Though this experience was new to Williams, several other people have tried it and had similar results: _Read next:_ [_Watch a Cow Mascot Treat a Supermarket Like Its Own Personal Club_](http://time.com/3672185/supermarket-cow-mascot-dance/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3510128/skipping-stones-frozen-lake-laser-sound/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3510128/skipping-stones-frozen-lake-laser-sound/"},"headline":"This Is the Awesome Sound You'll Hear When You Skip Stones on a Frozen Lake","datePublished":"2014-10-15T14:54:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:48.419Z","description":"It's probably not what you'd expect","url":"https://time.com/3510128/skipping-stones-frozen-lake-laser-sound/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Alaska","viral","nature"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb2e72ec0cdfb2bd/698760e80b72e3d25b6db0cb/screen-shot-2014-10-15-at-10-09-07-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb2e72ec0cdfb2bd/698760e80b72e3d25b6db0cb/screen-shot-2014-10-15-at-10-09-07-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-10-15 at 10.09.07 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3510128/skipping-stones-frozen-lake-laser-sound/","name":"This Is the Awesome Sound You'll Hear When You Skip Stones on a Frozen Lake"}}]}] ```