Posted on 02/20/2016 3:34:56 AM PST by BenLurkin
Dave Nemeyer, fire marshal of the Forest Grove Fire and Rescue in Forest Grove, Oregon, told ABC News that he first learned of the strange noise after a local resident recorded and shared a video of it on the city's Facebook page.
"It's definitely a horrendous noise," Nemeyer said. "I have no idea what the noise is. [The resident] described to us that it was coming from the middle of the street. To me, it sounds like the sound of train tracks, that metal screeching sound, but there are no train tracks near her home ... so that's obviously ruled out."
Rick Vanderkin, the city's public works superintendent, told ABC News that very few people have heard the sound, making it difficult to locate and even more difficult to make an "educated guess as to what's creating the noise." So far, officials have ruled out a water valve, a gas leak and wildlife as possible culprits.
Forest Grove resident Colleen Ahrens told ABC News affiliate KATU in Portland that she's been woken up three or four times by the sound.
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Hillary!
It’s the death rattle of free enterprise after the minimum wage law passed.
Sinkhole!
Sounds more like Singing Wine Glass Physics to me :)
Chupacabra
They’re all wrong, it’s the mating call of a “Big Foot”. We all know there are lots of them in Oregon.
There is an awesome book called “Dead Mountain” about a group of Russian skiers who died mysteriously in 1957 or 1958. This sounds similar (no pun intended).
The authorities couldn’t figure it out: while it was freezing and on a snowy mountainside, all seven were found outside their tent, mostly undressed, like they had run out in terror. No sign of struggle in the tent. No signs of violence.
The writer re-experienced the whole hike and when he camped on the mountainside at the same spot he found the wind coming through a particular alignment of the mountain generated an outrageous sound AND pressure! He and audiologists discovered that in fact the sound/pressure can drive you insane. They concluded the seven literally were driven nuts and ran out of the tent on their own.
Not enough data to speculate.
years ago I went camping in Sequoia National Forest in early February.
Would camp at Mineral King on Friday night then hike up to one of the many lakes in the Mountain tops above.
Every once in a while you’d hear an explosion that would echo the mountains over.
Then happened to be standing on a frozen lake when it cracked.
I figure the lake would expand pushing the mountain just a bit causing the monstrous sound.
GOD knows what momma earth has that will make wild sounds/.
Yup. America screeching to a halt.
I’m betting its the cougar in apartment 3C across the street ......
That they were in a militarily restricted zone which Soviet forces used to test weapons has absolutely nothing to do with it ... Penalty for intrusion into such zones was death on the spot.
Chupacabra? Someone already mentioned Hillary... You needn’t use her nickname.
LOL! Hillary was also my first thought — was wondering if her campaign had roared into town for some fairytale stories and a coughing-fit or two...
The shriek of all the dead conservatives who learned they were registered as Democrat voters, perhaps?
It’s a fox call.
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