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Hum Haunts Residents of Ind. Town-Kokomo
newsday.com ^
| 22 may, 2002
| REX W. HUPPKE
Posted on 05/22/2002 5:35:19 PM PDT by galt-jw
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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KOKOMO, Ind. -- It started as a low hum, barely noticeable. But within months, the endless throbbing was like a corkscrew twisting into Diane Anton's temple.
The walls of her home vibrated. Her bed shook. Bouts of nausea, short-term memory loss and hand tremors followed.
"The noise was so penetrating and invasive," she said. "It was just not getting better."
So Anton quit her job, abandoned her $180,000 house and fled. She was the first person driven out of the city by what's come to be known as "the Kokomo hum." But she may not be the last.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: hummer; kokomohum; taoshum
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posted on
05/22/2002 5:35:19 PM PDT
by
galt-jw
To: galt-jw
"If the house is a-hummin, don't come a-runnin."
(sorry)
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posted on
05/22/2002 5:38:54 PM PDT
by
TomB
To: galt-jw; dighton
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posted on
05/22/2002 5:38:55 PM PDT
by
aomagrat
To: galt-jw
Do they have trains in Kokomo? The locomotives are bigger than ever and they run them in clusters. The sound carries for miles even on idle.
To: galt-jw
The reason Kokomo is humming is because it doesn't know the words.
To: TomB
Was Ms.LEWINSKI in Kokomo...RE:.."HUMMER".
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posted on
05/22/2002 5:43:33 PM PDT
by
jaz.357
Comment #7 Removed by Moderator
To: one_particular_harbour
theories have ranged from underground tunneling for secret US bases, to subsonic communication to submarines. do a search for taos hum and youll find all sorts of stuff. it has been around for a while. this is new. also, an article in roll call mentioned the govt is looking for a new location for a second "washington" in the midwest.
who knows? it is unusual though.
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posted on
05/22/2002 5:51:09 PM PDT
by
galt-jw
To: galt-jw
One explanation I have heard about the low-frequency hum is high voltage wires.
9
posted on
05/22/2002 5:58:11 PM PDT
by
CWRWinger
To: galt-jw
Oh, I'm sorry. I've been humming Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford. I'll stop now.
To: LibWhacker
Sounds like
this for you young'uns.
To: LibWhacker; one_particular_harbour
Four words:
"Sugar, Sugar"; The Archies.
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