Posted on 07/27/2013 7:05:34 AM PDT by shove_it
It creeps in slowly in the dark of night, and once inside, it almost never goes away.
It's known as the Hum, a steady, droning sound that's heard in places as disparate as Taos, N.M.; Bristol, England; and Largs, Scotland.
But what causes the Hum, and why it only affects a small percentage of the population in certain areas, remain a mystery, despite a number of scientific investigations...
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
It looks like this humming phenomena is different from the sky songs and earth sounds. From the article, it usually only occurs in rural and suburban areas (less general noise to mask it), only 2% of the population in a reported area can hear it, generally those between 55-70, and it’s only heard indoors, usually at night. I’m guessing this one is more of a physical phenomena having to do with some middle-aged people being more sensitive to a certain low frequency of sound. I already have tinnitus, I hope I never start hearing this thing too!
Tectonic Plates rubbing together they can move so slow to cause a crust based hummmmm through low variance vibration !
Nice.
Sometimes you lose fine hairs in your inner ear as you age, and with them, the ability to hear certain frequencies. I remember some company offered ringtones for phones which were inaudible to people over 20 years old or so, because the specific frequency they used exploited this. Kids got the ring tones, so they could hear their phone ring in class, without their teacher knowing.
Could be similar.
got a forty dollar bill says you can't make me... wait, never mind
not in use for years... according to the Navy anyway
Keep a bag of your treasured items by the door. The aliens will allow one carry-on bag to be taken aboard their spacecraft.
For those not hearing the hum, live it up while you still can.
It does sound like a train engine. Like when it’s off in the distance. We had trains around where I grew up. It sounds just like it. You couldn’t see the train, but you knew one was coming by this sound. The sound may be bouncing off the mountain sides.
It all started when the SF Giants built their new stadium. folks heard hums in the bay and area.. they repeated and it went global. been humming ever since..
I hear its fish, btw
Hummmmm Baaaaby!! Go Giants!
Took a lot of legos to build that diggin’ machine.
I thought that guy already passed on ...
Has Mr. Weiner ever gotten a hummer from Huma?
I can hear it if I go outside at 3:30 or 4:00 or so, when it’s really quiet out. I have tinnitus and hearing damage in the middle range, but my upper and lower range is very good.
I cannot hear it when I go back inside, so it isn’t the tinnitus. It’s also an entirely different sound than the tinnitus.
It sounds like a house-sized generator a mile or two away. It doesn’t ebb and flow like train or traffic noise would- it’s consistent. If I had to guess- I’d say that it is 60 cycle hum from a bazillion electronic devices around me in any neighborhood that I’ve lived in recently. Next time we have a power outage here I will go outside and listen for it.
I can hear a whine from a muted TV if I were to be blindfolded and led into a room with one going- I have sort of a weird band of sensitivity to sound. I could hear the hum on the video link loudly enough that I had to turn it down.
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