question: Why does cracking lake ice make that ghostly sound?
comment: I think I know exactly what sound you mean. At a high level it's a weak crystalline material that is vibrating when those cracks appear. It's like a big drum head and makes the sound.
passages: In the years immediately following the First World War, Henry Cowell composed a number of piano pieces featuring tone clusters and direct manipulation of the piano's strings. One of these, titled "The Banshee" (1925), features sliding and shrieking sounds suggesting the terrifying cry of the banshee from Irish folklore.
   Section::::History.
  
  The lake's name is derived from Chief John Compound, a Mattatuck/Tunxis Native American. On December 3, 1684, his tribe signed a deed that left Compound's Lake to a group of white settlers, including John Norton, who had migrated to central Connecticut from Massachusetts. The property was left to the settlers in exchange for a small amount of money and miscellaneous items, including a large brass tea kettle. A local myth suggests that Chief Compound drowned while trying to cross the lake in the brass tea kettle.
  
  Section::::History.:Early days.
   Section::::History.
  
  Section::::History.:Background and conception.
   The vertical style of drum is usually stationary, with the ice formed on the inner surface. The harvesting blade is motor driven around this surface, cracking it off. The horizontal style of drum is usually rotating, with the ice formed on the outer surface. As the drum rotates, a stationary blade cracks the ice from the surface
   Section::::Chief Shaynowishkung.
   Section::::Phases.:Emerson Phase: 11,690–10,630 YBP.
   Section::::Phases.:Nipigon Phase: 10,630–9,160 YBP.
   Section::::Legend.
   Section::::Phases.:Ojibway Phase: 9,160–8,480 YBP.
   BULLET::::- Another famous flow of quick clay at Rissa, Norway, in 1978 caused about 33 hectares (82 acres) of farmland to liquefy and flow into the lake Botn over a few hours, with the loss of one life. The Rissa slide was well recorded by local citizens and a documentary film was made about it in 1981.
   Booming Ice Chasm
  
  Booming Ice Chasm is an ice cave in the Crowsnest Pass area of the Canadian Rockies. It is a cold-trap cave, where cold air enters the cave and is unable to leave, resulting in the entrance pitch and floor being covered in several metres of clear, smooth ice. The name derives from the acoustics of the cave. It was discovered, explored and mapped in 2008 by the Alberta Speleological Society.
  
  An expedition led by Nicholaus Vieira was filmed by François-Xavier de Ruydts and became a 19-minute documentary, which takes the viewer inside the cave.
  
  Section::::External links.
   As a piece of iceberg ice melts, it produces a fizzing sound called the "Bergie Seltzer". This sound results when the water-ice interface reaches compressed air bubbles trapped in the ice. As this happens, each bubble bursts, making a "popping" sound. The bubbles contain air trapped in snow layers very early in the history of the ice, that eventually got buried to a given depth (up to several kilometers) and pressurized as it transformed into firn then to glacial ice.
   Section::::4th of July Traditions.
   Section::::Phases.:Moorhead Phase: 12,560–11,690 YBP.
   Lake Taneycomo originated when the White River was confined by the completion of the Powersite Dam, near Forsyth, Missouri, in 1913. From 1913 until 1958 it was a warm water lake. In the 1920s and 1930s, tourists began to be drawn to the lake and its nearby communities, Branson and Rockaway Beach. Water skiing, boating, fishing, sunning and swimming drew folks to the warm waters of Lake Taneycomo. Restaurants, lodging and amusement attractions such as bumper cars and skee ball were plentiful in the towns along the lake. 
   Section::::Logging Mills.
   Cracked Ice
  
  Cracked Ice is a 1938 Merrie Melodies cartoon.
  
  Section::::Plot.
   The ten deepest lakes in Oakland County are:
  
  Section::::Historical significance.
  
  In 1818, Major and Mrs. Oliver Williams and their eight children set out to settle Oakland County along with Mr. and Mrs. Alpheus Williams, their four daughters and two sons, and Captain Archibald Phillips. Major Williams and his family established the first farm settlement in the county on the south shore of Silver Lake. Their farm was the first farm settlement on the Saginaw Trail. 
   In 1939, Zamboni created the Iceland Skating Rink in Paramount, California. In order to resurface the skating rink, 3 or 4 workers had to scrape, wash, and squeegee the ice. A thin layer of water was then added for the fresh ice. This process was extremely time consuming, and Zamboni wanted to find a more efficient way to resurface the ice.
   Rock bass and smallmouth bass in North Manistique have won eleven State of Michigan Master Angler awards from 1994 to 2000.
  
  Section::::Big Manistique Lake.
   On January 14, 2019, an ice disc approximately 298 feet (91 metres) wide on the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine, United States drew wide media attention. A smaller disc was reported by park rangers in Baxter State Park, in northern Maine, the same month.
  
  Section::::See also.
  
  BULLET::::- Foam line
  
  Section::::Further reading.
  
  BULLET::::- Theories abound on how the river got those patterns – MIT News
  
  Section::::External links.
  
  BULLET::::- Video of ice disc in Germany:
  
  BULLET::::- Video of ice circle in Ontario, Canada: Rattray Marsh Creek Circle |date=13 December 2008
   Section::::Transitory to Lake Arkona.
  
  In falling from the level of Lake Whittlesey to that of Lake Wayne the water level necessarily passed the planes at which it had stood in making the Arkona beaches, and Lake Arkona was temporarily revived. But this relation was transitory and endured for so short a time that no evidence of renewed wave work has been found.
  
  Section::::See also.
  
  Proglacial lakes of the Lake Erie Basin
  
  BULLET::::- Lake Maumee
  
  BULLET::::- Lake Arkona
  
  BULLET::::- Lake Wayne
  
  BULLET::::- Lake Whittlesey
  
  BULLET::::- Lake Warren
  
  BULLET::::- Lake Grasmere
  
  BULLET::::- Early Lake Algonquin
  
  BULLET::::- Lake Lundy and Dana
   Lake Taneycomo
  
  Lake Taneycomo is a man-made lake or reservoir on the White River in the Ozark Mountains of Taney County, Missouri. The reservoir is named for the county in which it is located: "Taney Co"unty, "MO".
   Small cracks often contain small pits and chains of pits; these are thought to be from sublimation (phase transition) of ice in the ground.
   Section::::Environment.
  