A Maddening Sound: Is the Hum, a mysterious noise heard around the world, science or mass delusion?

[FordGT90Concept]

Its odd to see this,as i have a bit of experience with constant droning/humming sounds,which is as follows.....i have always been prone to headaches that are apparently referred to by many as migranes, which would cause me to vomit, become dizzy,etc.
As a child, i began havi g these "odd" dreams, that have since stopped, but continued from about 6y/o to 16. In these dreams, all i could percieve was a white, flat surface, with a large black dot at the center,i had no body in the drems, all there was, was the dot, the flat white surface, and most prominnt of all, a constant humming sound. Never changinb in tone, or volume, just hummmmmmmm....and black dot , for wht seemed to be an eternity.
There was no motion i could speak of, no other stimulus at all. I can say from a lifetime of "frightening" experiences, that NOTHING compared to the unsettling fear induced by that humming, and that damn dot.

Well, thats my humming sound experience. Weird huh?

Only hear it in dreams though? That is weird but all observances of the Hum are when people are very alert.

And, by the info you posted, it does not happen all the time.

Actually, it likely does, it just isn't perceivable during the day because other sounds drown it out. I quoted the Wikipedia ELF article about that phenomena.

Also, do you think they are, really, going to post a schedule for any secretive testing.

Equipment can be built to find the direction an ELF is coming from. With the proper equipment, you don't need a schedule to confirm the source. That said, ELF is very difficult to pinpoint a source because the source can be very far away. It's not impossible though.

The problem is that researchers aren't taking the Hum seriously. Only one scientist weighed in, according to the article, and he devised and experiment to determine if it was auditory or ELF. The experiment has yet to be carried out.

 

[D007]

Lol.. Sounds like a big bridge, with cars going over it.. Lasts 12 hours? I bet it's pretty much non-stop.

 

[newconroer]

New title for my next porno flick "“Have You Heard the Hum?” "

 

[Ferrum Master]

nahh it is actually him...

 

[redeye]

Bad hearing... Tinnitus... the result of too much load music.
Traffic noise...
Being able to hear all of the insects, scrapping/walking...

hearding the ants drag earth around.

forgetting that a fan is on.

Or finally, noticing the a huge UFO is about you... Because its propulsion systems' Sound cloaking technology broke down and it took 12 hours to fix... /sarcasm?

 

[qubit]

I could argue that I have "the hum" too and write mysteriously about it. I can hear a modulated tone of about 150Hz or so of gently pulsating amplitude. It's very low though and I can only hear it in a quiet environment. It can get considerably louder if I'm very tired or not well with a cold too and I can't tell where it's coming from either.

The difference is that I don't go embarrassing myself by making some alien mystery out of it. I know exactly what it is: tinnitus which I've just learned to live with.

 

[exodusprime1337]

i feel like the first post is a lengthy description of people suffering from tinnitus... I mean that's literally what they hear in some cases..

Tinnitus is the hearing of sound when no external sound is present.[1] While often described as a ringing, it may also sound like a clicking, hiss or roaring.[2] Rarely, unclear voices or music are heard.[3] The sound may be soft or loud, low pitched or high pitched and appear to be coming from one ear or both.[2] Most of the time, it comes on gradually.[3] In some people, the sound causes depression, anxiety or interferes with concentration.[2]

 

[dorsetknob]

I could argue that I have "the hum" too and write mysteriously about it. I can hear a modulated tone of about 150Hz or so of gently pulsating amplitude. It's very low though and I can only hear it in a quiet environment. It can get considerably louder if I'm very tired or not well with a cold too and I can't tell where it's coming from either.

Wife'ie /girlfriend / kids /pets ???

 

[Vayra86]

Its God/the Devil/Budda comunicating with their followers ( the sound of Angels Farting )
Now as a non conforming Atheist i do not hear it

This.

Also: only in 'murica right? They also have UFO's there, and flying unicorns. It's moments like these that I'm proud to be a European. And only moments like these, btw

 

[Ferrum Master]

This.

Also: only in 'murica right? They also have UFO's there, and flying unicorns. It's moments like these that I'm proud to be a European. And only moments like these, btw

But we have trolls and witches. But honestly... there are more moments to be proud of being eu... except the f*ing eurovision contest, that I am ashamed off.

 

[Liquid Cool]

Listening to the audio...I've heard this sound deep in caves/caverns that I've explored. Almost sounds like the wind where there is none.

As a person who has gone through 30-40 laptops to find one without a high pitch chipset whine(usually Intel), or over the last few years, at least 50 or more motherboards with the same problem until I finally gave up, and several dozen power supplies....I can truly feel for these people.

After long discussions/testing with my doctor....turns out I just have a little ringing in my right ear...and these chipset/coil whine noises exacerbate the problem immensely. I can't be in the same room with whining devices, it would drive me mad. Or, I could already be mad....and I'm just not aware of it yet.

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Liquid Cool

P.S. I've read many accounts of those with a spiritual leaning who regularly hear higher pitch tones in their ears that sound otherworldly. Oftentimes when they're praying/meditating or when they're just waking up.

 

[Caring1]

I have constant ringing in my ears, but it doesn't affect my hearing, it's just that I am aware of it.
I have sat through earth tremors, and heard as well as felt them, a very low frequency that my teenage sons have not heard, despite their "better hearing".

 

[Vayra86]

except the f*ing eurovision contest, that I am ashamed off.

Won't be surprised if there is an increase in suicide rate during that period of the year

 

[the54thvoid]

Why is any of this surprising? We over elaborate things because we love to feel different and make wonderfully far flung prepositions about causes. With a fluid filled vibration sensitive mechanism in each of us, all slightly different in the micro structure from person to person, it's not too hard to believe, some people hear noises others cannot.

None of this is even as vaguely interesting as Synesthesia.

 

[natr0n]

I read about this few years ago on a conspiracy site.

This shouldn't affect us pc users much as we don't go outside much at all and have fans spinning and music playing almost always.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

i feel like the first post is a lengthy description of people suffering from tinnitus... I mean that's literally what they hear in some cases..

Tinnitus is the hearing of sound when no external sound is present.[1] While often described as a ringing, it may also sound like a clicking, hiss or roaring.[2] Rarely, unclear voices or music are heard.[3] The sound may be soft or loud, low pitched or high pitched and appear to be coming from one ear or both.[2] Most of the time, it comes on gradually.[3] In some people, the sound causes depression, anxiety or interferes with concentration.[2]

One problem: microphones can capture the Hum. It does exist.

This.

Also: only in 'murica right? They also have UFO's there, and flying unicorns. It's moments like these that I'm proud to be a European. And only moments like these, btw

It's global. First documented case was in the article (1977 in England, if memory serves).

I have constant ringing in my ears, but it doesn't affect my hearing, it's just that I am aware of it.
I have sat through earth tremors, and heard as well as felt them, a very low frequency that my teenage sons have not heard, despite their "better hearing".

It's the high frequencies that change with age. You can determine a human's age range by what the peak frequency is they can hear.

This shouldn't affect us pc users much as we don't go outside much at all and have fans spinning and music playing almost always.

Yeah, when my server is off (either no power or serious hardware failure) I can hear everything at night and it's scary. XD

 

[Ferrum Master]

we don't go outside

I hit the pubs a lot... and then write some drunk posts here...

The mic sound could be anything actually... it has to have more proof... really not to be some kind of bridge or bigger AC, neighbors having fun and moving around the bed

 

[natr0n]

I hit the pubs a lot... and then write some drunk posts here...

The mic sound could be anything actually... it has to have more proof... really not to be some kind of bridge or bigger AC, neighbors having fun and moving around the bed

 

[FordGT90Concept]

The mic sound could be anything actually... it has to have more proof... really not to be some kind of bridge or bigger AC, neighbors having fun and moving around the bed

People cut the power to their house. It doesn't get quieter...in fact it can get louder (again, nothing drowning it out). In every case, it is coming from outside of the house and, most likely, the structure of the house is amplifying it.

Bridge completely depends on proximity to said bridge. That said, there really aren't that many large steel bridges that could produce a constant ELF. If it were coming from a large steel structure near by, it shouldn't be that hard to figure it out. The cases the article mostly focuses on are situations that are remote where is no large steel structures of any kind.

Problem with neighbors: not consistent and not lasting 8+ hours.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Problem with neighbors: not consistent and not lasting 8+ hours.

It could be a brothel then .

Maybe the house is simply hounted. Ghosts and skeletons...

On the serious note... if the sound is real, it should be traceable from a distance at last and apply basic triangulation. The energy source must come from somewhere... maybe an underneath river or some sort of geologic movement.

In the end it will be some company[goverment] digging a cave somewhere near for mining or military purposes. Or even fracking.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I have never heard that particular sound but my Wife can easily whine on for 8 + hours at a time and it is equally annoying.

 

[Vayra86]

Yeah the more I think and read on this, the more it falls into the category of 'Chem Trails' and other such nonsense to me.

Moving along now...

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Maybe the house is simply hounted. Ghosts and skeletons...

Psssh, fairy tales!

On the serious note... if the sound is real, it should be traceable from a distance at last and apply basic triangulation. The energy source must come from somewhere... maybe an underneath river or some sort of geologic movement.

In the end it will be some company[goverment] digging a cave somewhere near for mining or military purposes. Or even fracking.

That's what should happen but audio equipment for that doesn't come cheap. Stopping ELF is equally challenging. No one government institution, private company, or individuals have committed to understanding, discovering, and solving it.

Yeah the more I think and read on this, the more it falls into the category of 'Chem Trails' and other such nonsense to me.

I'm going to blow your mind: aerosols of all kinds (including jet exhaust) seeds clouds. It's not really necessary to release additional chemicals to cause a cloud to form. That said, contrails usually create cirrus-like clouds, not the kinds that lead to precipitation (cumulonimbus). Cirrus clouds do most likely contribute to global warming because they reflect more solar radiation back to the earth than back to the sun.