Unidentified Noise Keeping Suitland Residents Up at Night (Washington, DC)

NBCwashington ^ | 7-31-21 | Darcy Spencer

[dynachrome]

Residents of Suitland, Maryland, say an unidentified siren sounds off regularly through the night, making it difficult to sleep.

They want to know where the noise is coming from and they want it to stop so they can get some sleep.

“It sounds kind of like a combination of a tornado siren and a spaceship taking off, like the siren from the ‘Purge’ movies,” resident Scott Bovarnick said.

People have complained about loud noises in the area of Prince George’s County on and off for years.

“We have a lot of young families in the neighborhood, a lot of children, and I know it’s probably keeping them up,” Bovarnick said. “A lot of my neighbors are having trouble sleeping, and it’s disturbing.”

[Texas Fossil]

There is a lot more to it than that. They were married 66 years.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Halawa, Aiea

Is this somewhere on Planet Earth?

[SuperLuminal]

It’s the warning siren located at the mock-up interment camp structures and a couple of different-design ovens that are in test phase...

IAC, that, for Suitland, makes efficient use of an otherwise inhabitable ghetto...

[Tijeras_Slim]

Back in the 60’s Montgomery County MD would sound the Civil Defense sirens at 11:00 on the second Wednesday.

[BenLurkin]

No.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

When Cheney was president... er... veep, he got contractors to perform multiple explosions under his residence in order to create a secure bunker.

The neighbors were not happy.

[dynachrome]

LOL. I’ll need more tinfoil.

[brianl703]

These sirens are (or were) often controlled with a voice-grade copper line leased from the telephone company. The line is connected to a relay at the siren, and there is a switch on the other end which is turned on to activate the siren.

This means that a telephone line problem like an intermittent short in the pair can cause the siren to activate.

And, with telephone companies like Verizon neglecting their copper infrastructure, telephone line problems are much more common.

[freeandfreezing]

A few of residents need to keep a PC based digital recording running until the siren sounds. Along the way they can make some loud noises at known locations to get relative time data for the two recorders.

Once they record the siren they can compare the timing of the arrival of the sounds to triangulate the location of the siren. And then the mystery is solved.

[PUGACHEV]

I remember that. In fact, it goes back to the mid-50s in Montgomery County, where there was a Nike missile base not far from my parents’ house.

[BenLurkin]

Interesting.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Yep, I can see that. Can somebody tell me which beaver butts thought it was a good idea to put thousands of dead twigs on the outsides of most of the buildings there?

[rlmorel]

When I was a kid living on the Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan back in the Sixties, they would turn on the air raid sirens every day at noon and at 17:00. (Maybe it was just noon, but I seem to recall it was both.)

We had one of those air raid sirens on the roof of our building that we lived in (an old parachute hanger that had been converted and divided up into about 8 spacious living quarters) and while the stairwell up to the roof was always locked, I found it open one day and went up there.

I wanted to see what the base looked like from up there, and then I saw that siren. It was huge. I was eleven, and the thing looked massive, but I think it may have only been about five feet across.

In thinking about it, I did up this which in my head is what I think the thing looked like on that roof, and the figure is me at age 11...I think.

It looked to me like...well, one of those Japanese garden sculptures. I wonder if it had been left in place when Japan surrendered, and our military used it. It had only been 20 years or so since we took over that base. There were caves all over that base that the Japanese had dug in WWII, so this might have been a remnant too.

I went back up at noon when it was going to go off because, well, I was eleven years old, and I just loved loud things. And I was standing about as close as that figure above when it went off.

It was so damned loud it hurt my ears, and it scared the crap out of me. I couldn't get off that roof fast enough.

The creepiest thing about them, is they had a bunch of them all over the base, and they all went off at the same time. As they went off, they went in and out of harmonic synchronization, and it gave it the creepiest, sound.

To my eleven year old ears, it was the sound of doom.

[Truthoverpower]

Get good windows

We have shitty dogs barking all hours of day nearby

With windows closed. We hear nothing muffled

Now the teenagers IN THE HOUSE ? A different story !

She runs a fan at night to drown them out

[Chauncey Gardiner]

The trumpet shall sound

[ealgeone]

Twenty years ago I’d say that’s crazy talk. Today, it’s a distinct possibility.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Gee, I thought they were talking about the Dems “gaslighting” their asses. Missed it by that much.

[BenLurkin]

Ugliest building right here.

[gundog]

Seems to do the job. Getting people’s attention through walls, to the point that they can’t sleep

[FLvoter]

They’re rescuing children from the tunnels lol