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Posted: 01-09-2011 23:21 Post subject:

It seems these sounds generally can't be recorded very successfully on audio equipment (true?). Then I wonder if they could be electrophonic (brain converting electromagnetic waves into perceived sound). Which is itself I think not really accepted by science but which is trotted out sometimes to explain people thinking they can hear meteors. Maybe these hums are caused by some industrial or military radio emissions. It would fit with the fact that they crop up in an area and then go away again after a time, and that not everyone hears them.

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Posted: 15-09-2011 07:35 Post subject:

Windsor Rumble Intensifies: 'It was the loudest it's ever been'
By Kristie Pearce, The Windsor Star September 13, 2011

WINDSOR, Ont. -- It seemed as if the mysterious rumblings had subsided, according to Grete MaKenzie, but Sunday night through early Monday the low pitch humming came back with a vengeance.

“It was the loudest it’s ever been,” she said about the inexplicable rumblings she and thousands of Windsorites have reported hearing in the past eight months.

The 61-year-old said the noise woke her at home about 5:30 a.m. Monday in the 3000 block of Sandwich Street.

“Last night it was really bad,” said MaKenzie. “We went outside and it was almost like it was vibrating your eardrums.”

She said the noise comes and goes, but has been going on far too long.

“We need to identify it," she said.

The Ministry of the Environment has ruled out industrial sources as the culprit, but Coun. Al Maghnieh wants to know why.

“They’re not giving us answers,” he said.

Maghnieh believes the study is not complete. He said he’s received thousands of calls — mostly concentrated in the Windsor West area by Brighton Beach.

The ministry ruled out the Windsor Salt mine because the company only blasts once a day in the mid-afternoon.

Most residents find the rumblings more prominent between 1-3 a.m.

Zug Island, lake freighters and plane traffic from Detroit Metro Airport are also not suspected.

The ministry could not be reached Monday for comment.

Multiple Facebook groups have started to log times and locations of the mysterious humming, including The Windsor/Essex County Hum which has 523 members.

The page was flooded with posts describing Monday’s occurence as the loudest yet.

“It’s just frustrating,” said Jeff Temple, who lives in a basement unit on Curry and Adanac avenues. “I want to know what’s causing my walls to vibrate.”

He said he’s been hearing the rumblings since February.

“We’re talking about the middle of an industrial area with significant problems with thousands of complaints and yet the MoE seems to think that everything is fine,” Maghnieh said.“We have some serious issues here that need serious answers because people are frustrated.”

Maghnieh said he will be speaking with the MoE’s regional director Wednesday.

He is also holding a meeting open to residents and officials Sept. 29 at 6:30 p.m. The location has not yet been announced.

© Copyright (c) The Windsor Star

http://www.windsorstar.com/Windsor%20Rumble%20Intensifies%20loudest%20ever%20been/5391414/story.html#ixzz1XvnWMR9P

Posted: 18-09-2011 23:33 Post subject:

Posted: 19-09-2011 09:09 Post subject:

I'm not sure, as the crow flies. Maybe 10 miles? There's a big mountain in the way, though. (Snowdon)

I discounted it because the noise is most often heard between about 5 and 10 in the morning, and I'd have thought they'd be pumping water back up the hill from about midnight. And if we could hear it over here, it'd be pretty loud in Llanberis, which is much nearer to the power station than we are.

Posted: 17-10-2011 14:41 Post subject:

UPDATE: Of late, I've heard a similar hum a couple of times during the day. This time I managed to track it down - its a standby generator at the new water treatment building across the valley.

This is definitly not the original hum, because its only been installed this year, but the way the sound reverberated made me reconsider. It actually sounded nearly as loud inside my house as it did just one field away from the source.

I now strongly suspect that the original hum might indeed be vibrations from Dinorwic transmitted through the rock and my house which is stone built acting as a kind of loudspeaker. The rock strata around here are extremely unusual (and very hard!) and my house is on a seam - there are trial borings for all kinds of minerals and metals round me, slate, ironstone, lead, even gold, and the same seam goes across to Llanberis / Dinorwic.

Posted: 18-10-2011 16:39 Post subject:

Respect due to a good bit of research there...

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Posted: 13-01-2012 00:11 Post subject:

I was going to post what sherbetbizarre did. This youtube link seems to be about the same sound (my spanish is muy malo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pco_g5gwZj8&feature=related

Posted: 13-01-2012 04:05 Post subject:

While searching about for more info on the vids I came across a thread on another site discussing the sound.
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1750775/pg1

A video dated 19th October 2011 taken in Colorado in the US sounds quite similar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_KZS5LThoj0#!

Posted: 13-01-2012 22:35 Post subject:

There was a feature on Radio Norfolk's breakfast show last week about someone reporting an ongoing humming sound inside her house in Norwich that only a few people could hear. A number of listeners subsequently texted in to claim that they too had heard the Norwich Hum.

Annoyingly, I can't seem to find any reference to it on the interweb at all, but I'm reasonably certain that I didn't dream it.

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Posted: 19-01-2012 14:19 Post subject:

Greylian, I live in Norwich and certainly hear Norwich Hum! Sometimes it's definitely in my head (all's quiet and if you make a noise the hum turns down) but I've noticed that when there is snow on the ground (and the world sounds different anyway) there can be a very loud hum that other people can hear too. Have long suspected the water works.