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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shut-and-listen/201905/is-the-global-hum-rocking-your-world

I started hearing this last night when I got home. It's just a low frequency hum, like a big rid idling in the driveway, but further way. I stood outside after getting out of my car listening for a few minutes to see if it got any louder or moved. I was expecting it to get louder then hear the familiar whump-whump of helicopter blades, but it never changed. Thought maybe the subwoofer attached to the garage stereo had gone on the fritz. Nope. Went inside and forgot about it.

Once in bed for the night and things got quiet I started hearing it again, from all over the house with no change in intensity regardless of what room I was in. It's constant for a few minutes, then stops for a few seconds, then starts again. It almost sounds like you should be able to feel it by touching the walls. Jenny has tinnitus and can't hear it, both the girls are hearing impaired and can't hear it.

I noticed it again walking to my car this morning. It's louder outside than it is inside.

I get to work 45 miles away and I don't hear it, so it's not my ears. So I start googling.

Anybody else hear it? They say only 2-4% of the polulation can hear it, and it seems to be reported in localization's around the globe.

The simulation / recording at 0:39 is dead nuts on to what I'm hearing at home (the rest of the video is crap)



https://thehum.info/
 
Having been out in the woods where I live in the dead of night, no.
It's absolutely silent out here save for the occasional car in the distance. No reports marked on the map near me either.
 
Having been out in the woods where I live in the dead of night, no.
It's absolutely silent out here save for the occasional car in the distance. No reports marked on the map near me either.

I live in a very rural area. Never heard it until last night\this morning.....and there's no way I've just missed it for the last 7 years.
 
It appears the majority of accounts are from heavily populated areas.
That's not necessarily correlation, but I'd wager it has to do with power grids, machinery, and road traffic in most places. But of course, it could just be because more people live in those areas.
 
OK, are you in Davie county NC? Weird thing is i have been hearing something too. I had attributed it to the menagerie of blow up Christmas stuff my wife (still) has in the front yard and/or the lights, don't get me started on the lights, anyway i got sick of it on Monday and i pulled the plug and it turned off all the blow up stuff, but some lights are still plugged in elsewhere..and there is still a hum. I will check it out tonight, I was thinking it was my youngest boy upstairs running a fan or something. Who knows, it could be something else! I live out in the country on 601. Not much industry close to me. Between the hum and the tinnitus acting up it is a wonder i can sleep at all.
 
OK, are you in Davie county NC? Weird thing is i have been hearing something too. I had attributed it to the menagerie of blow up Christmas stuff my wife (still) has in the front yard and/or the lights, don't get me started on the lights, anyway i got sick of it on Monday and i pulled the plug and it turned off all the blow up stuff, but some lights are still plugged in elsewhere..and there is still a hum. I will check it out tonight, I was thinking it was my youngest boy upstairs running a fan or something. Who knows, it could be something else! I live out in the country on 601. Not much industry close to me. Between the hum and the tinnitus acting up it is a wonder i can sleep at all.


I'm about a quarter mile off of 801, about a mile west of the race track.

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Yes. I've heard about similar occurrences and have experienced it myself, years ago. There happens to be a lot of seismic activity going on right now.
 
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I was going to say the VLF comms, but the video already mentioned it.

Not sure if it's real or Tom Clancy military.

My data point would be inaccurate as I live 1-2 miles as the crow flies form 485 and there is always a slight hum of traffic. Plus, there's a rail line in the other direction and those diesel engines can create a helluva low rumble at times. Otherwise, my place is quiet.
 
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I have heard hums before, but not in recent years as I have tinnitus from years of air tool use.
Around the Frye Bridge Rd area of Clemmons we hear a higher pitch hum at night from a ventilator fan at the Cooper Rd sewage plant. It's very distracting once I become aware of it.

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Periodical cicada Brood IX (9) will emerge in the spring of 2020 in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. The last time this brood emerged was in 2003. https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas...in-north-carolina-virginia-and-west-virginia/

If you haven't heard them before, they make a loud continuous hum that sounds like something from outer space. I don't know if that's what you're hearing, it might be too early in the year for them, but that's what came to my mind.
 
Periodical cicada Brood IX (9) will emerge in the spring of 2020 in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. The last time this brood emerged was in 2003. https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas...in-north-carolina-virginia-and-west-virginia/

If you haven't heard them before, they make a loud continuous hum that sounds like something from outer space. I don't know if that's what you're hearing, it might be too early in the year for them, but that's what came to my mind.


I was here for that, moved to AZ in Oct of 2003. What I'm hearing is not that.

And that's just great. This spring I'll be up to my knees in cicada carcasses.
 
My computer harddrive makes a bit of a hum on this desk. I never heard it before when it was on a different desk.
 
OK, so i had no hum/low frequency noise last night. So if you heard it Brian... I didn't. I even went outside and pretended to be a potted plant for a bit and listened, and i got nothing. Previously this could be heard when laying in bed. So the mystery continues.
 
I didn't hear anything last night either. Yesterday morning at 7am it was still loud and clear inside and louder outside.
 
You guys didn't hear anything because Iran stood down. No secret messages sent to the nuke subs waiting in the depths.
 
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ok.
i'll play.
so far, this is what i heard at my place:
1. CFL lights create a "hum" when on.
2. our Heat Pump hums before engaging.
3. the Reverse Osmosis system hums when recharging.
 
I work at Baptist, and Audiology is part of my purview. So any of you alien baiting crackheads need a hearing test, I can get you hooked up. Plus we have some cute audiologists. Those sound rooms are eerily quiet when they do the testing. 5c0625ca63138920bdd51bb0075f26fe77a4ac6b_hq.jpg
 
I work at Baptist, and Audiology is part of my purview. So any of you alien baiting crackheads need a hearing test, I can get you hooked up. Plus we have some cute audiologists. Those sound rooms are eerily quiet when they do the testing. View attachment 181548
Neato. Are they quiet enough to cause hallucinations akin to total sensory deprivation?

I saw an article on my cellphone from "Futurism" about an underwater volcano being the source of the hum.

Here's the article:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/source-bizarre-humming-noise-underwater-volcano
Only thing is, the supposed "hum" has been heard all over the world over the course of many years.

Personally I think it's the lizard people constructing war machines for their eventual conquest of the outer crust.
 
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