I've heard it, I'm not sure where though. I also hear tinnitus in my left ear from a gig years ago.
The Hum Heard Round the World - Updated
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I hear it occasionally, mainly when there's major weather changes such as a thunderstorm coming in. I always assumed it had something to do with atmospheric pressure, but clearly it was the work of ancient aliens trying to burrow into my brain and learn the secrets of a perfectly prepared twinkie hot dog.
Today, Bristol, tomorrow, THE WORLD!TheRightToArmBears said:
THE ILLUMINATI ARE TAKING OVER!
THE END IS NIGH!
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No seriously, I don't think it's anything suspicious, but it'd be nice to know. You know, for simplicity's sake.
Yes, that is exactly what it sounds like for me. The windows in the front of my house, the largest ones, aren't 100% secured. there's a tiny gap between the frame of one window and the wall. Those windows sound as if they're going to shatter whenever I hear the--I guess 'hum' isn't the proper word. It's a rumble. A very low bass rumble.Galen Marek said:
Infrasound seems to be the most likely cause as the nature of low, deep bass is that it's supposedly omnidirectional. In the few legitimate-looking videos I've seen, people are claiming that it's a noise emanating from the sky. Could be lightning in the upper atmosphere or something.Ragsnstitches said:
The coolest thing to me is that nobody that's responded on this thread has so far said that it's a different noise; the low bass rumble seems to be the only common factor here.
*EDIT* I forgot to post this cool thing about elephants and their infrasound communication. There's a signal generator on this page [http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/elephant/cyclotis/language/infrasound.html] and it's hard for me to say which frequency the hum matches. It's not the same when it's all clean.
I remember my Government teacher doing a small segment about the Taos hum towards the end of my last year. I thought it was just isolated to the area around the cave in New Mexico where it originated, but I guess it really gets around these days.
Isn't that the same hum that supposedly drives the people who hear it to madness?
Isn't that the same hum that supposedly drives the people who hear it to madness?
If only a small percentage of all people can hear it, and it is illogically spread, then couldn't it just be that the people who claim to hear it suffer from tinnitus without having been diagnosed?
Unless we get some scientific measurements of it, I'm gonna rule it down to it being a mix of natural noises from the environment combined with people who are too quick to jump to fantastical conclusions. Especially the fact that only 2 percent seems to be able to hear the noise makes me fairly certain this is nothing of importance. I'm sure more than two percent of people claim to have seen or "experienced" ghosts but that makes them no more real.
i've heard a lot of strange things. Walking across a bridge in California at 2am I heard some weird grinding noise that seemed to come from every direction. No cars on the highway, nothing in sight except foothills and the moon. About 2 hours later, still walking I experienced my first Earthquake. Minor, but unsettling. I was glad as hell to be off that bridge.
Years later at home in FL I heard a similar noise followed by a sonic boomlike noise. It was coincidentally the day one of the Space Shuttles were landing, and I thought that was what shook the house. Turns out we had a Gulf of Mexico earthquake.
I am pretty sure I've heard this noise as well... what it signifies I'm absolutely clueless.
Years later at home in FL I heard a similar noise followed by a sonic boomlike noise. It was coincidentally the day one of the Space Shuttles were landing, and I thought that was what shook the house. Turns out we had a Gulf of Mexico earthquake.
I am pretty sure I've heard this noise as well... what it signifies I'm absolutely clueless.
This is exactly what I was thinking. I've lived near both train tracks and an airport growing up and this is what the trains sound like from indoors when everything is closed up. Kind of freaky when the trains go by late at night but you quickly learn what it is. Also, the track was down in a hill and we lived on the top of it, with another hill on the other side so it'd make the sound bounce around and leave mostly the ambient and low sounds while stifling the other noises, making it more eerie.McMullen said:
Well that was creepy. I unplugged my headset and couldn't hear the hum. But I could when I plugged it back in.
It does sound kind of eerily familiar, although I can't say if I've ever heard it in my area. I know I've heard it somewhere though.
There is only one possible explanation for this sound...
Joking aside, this is fascinating. I've never heard of this apparent phenomena before.
It does sound kind of eerily familiar, although I can't say if I've ever heard it in my area. I know I've heard it somewhere though.
There is only one possible explanation for this sound...
Joking aside, this is fascinating. I've never heard of this apparent phenomena before.
Sounds exactly like really low pitched tinnitus (I have it), which is odd, because normally tinnitus is a much high pitch. However, I do get a similar sound when I have a head-cold or otherwise blocked up nose and ears, as the pressure creates a sensation of a subharmonic frequency. I'm putting my money on that (or tectonics or aliens...whatever!)
What the hell? I just woke up from a noise that sounded like that. Then it was gone. That was weird. I'm guessing it's a low-pitched form of tinnitus, since I know I have that occasionally (too much time around loud engines and explosives! Wooo!)
as for everyone else here, I think you need to see this:
as for everyone else here, I think you need to see this: