Taos Hum

[Debi]

Taos Hum - The Taos Hum Mystery - Strange Sounds

There have been persistent complaints of annoying low frequency sounds in the USA and other countries but the group of “hearers” in Taos has been particularly outspoken. In 1993 they got the attention of the New Mexico congressional delegation resulting in a request for an investigation. Many Taos residents feel that the government may somehow be involved in the sound, so the investigation was open and public.
The Taos Hum may be best described with the following attributes:

• First, the hum is selective. Only a small percentage of Taos residents perceive it.
• Second, the hum is persistent since most hearers perceive it on a weekly basis.
• Third, the source of the hum must be widespread since hearers perceive it throughout the Taos area. Moreover, all the country describes a similar phenomenon.
• Fourth, the hum is invariably described as low in frequency and reminiscent of a distant pump, an idling diesel truck, or perhaps someone’s high powered audio bass running amok.

Hearers who are musicians identify the hum as a modulated tone near Eb (41 Hz) and those with some technical background identify it as an amplitude modulated sound with a carrier frequency ranging from 30 to 80 Hz.

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These hums, especially this one, never appear to be solved. What do you think causes them?

 

[curandero81]

I have been fascinated with such accounts and ALWAYS wondered why with computers, equiptment, sensitive microphones and programs that are able to analyze all fequencies (audible and not) WHY have NO studies or results of "hums" been released to the public and various institutions for analysis ??

 

[Debi]

AND another hummmmmm.....


Residents of the Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario have been plagued for the last six years by a maddening humming sound that government officials are powerless to stop.
The creatively titled 'Windsor Hum,' seemingly emerged out of nowhere in 2010 when denizens of the city began reporting a low, rumbling sound that varied in intensity and could last for days on end.

When the sound really picks up, they say, it can even rattle walls and windows with an intense vibration.

"If you think of thunder, and you take that thunder and constantly repeat it for hours and days, weeks, that's all it is," Windsor resident Mike Provost told The Guardian.
The torment has proven to be so bad for some citizens of Windsor that they have been forced to rely on sleeping pills in order to get any rest.
Others have been prescribed anxiety medication not only for themselves but also for their pets who are suffering from the sound as well.
Attempts to solve the mystery of the hum via a Canadian government study pointed the finger at an American site, known as Zug Island, located on the Detroit River which acts as a border between the two countries.

Incredibly, researchers believe they have pinpointed the ultimate source of the sound to be from a blast furnace inside a steel plant on the man-made island.
However their findings only served to make the problem even more frustrating because, while they may have found the origin of the hum, stopping it has proven to be a futile task.
American government officials with jurisdiction over the island have expressed little concern for the sound, since it does not seem to be an issue for people in the United States.
As such, Windsor residents have found themselves unwitting victims of a bureaucratic mess that may not be solved unless the highest reaches of the Canadian government push for some kind of solution.

Until then, they are forced to live with the 'hum' that has become an omnipresent part of their lives and wistfully wish for a day when they can once again enjoy the sweet sound of silence.
Source: The Guardian

 

[Lynne]

I wish we could figure this out, its desturbing

 

[Duke]

Mystery of Weird Hum Heard Around the World Solved | Live Science

 

[Ultima Thule]

During the Cold War, highly sensitive US Navy passive sonar arrays would often pick up acoustic emanations at very specific frequencies that could never be correlated back to any known man-made electrical or mechanical source. That included commercial shipping, industrial activities, such as oil rigs, and NATO, Soviet or other naval assets. One of them was even common enough to get a nickname. All of this was before any of these sounds or hums became part of the paranormal landscape. I always look out for it when I read these articles. But it's never mentioned. If it was seismic or from some other natural source, it may have just stopped on its own.

 

[Debi]

Interesting, because when some people put that theory of inner core out there before the scientists all went "Impossible!" Funny how that worked out....lol

 

[Lynne]

The people living in inner earth are noisy