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| Dingo667 I'm strange...but true Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Total posts: 1977 Location: Deep in the Fens, UK Age: 46 Gender: Female |
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I think this might fit here as it sounds like the noises. Somewhere it has been suggested that this might be the instrument used in some videos to create the eerie sounds. If not, it is still interesting as I didn't know about it:
Meet the Waterphone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRB3CbvQBJA |
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| Moooksta Muppet
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| Posted: 31-03-2012 12:38 Post subject: |
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Over the last week I've been posted a couple of these "strange sounds from the Earth" videos by my chums asking what it is. Thanks to "kamalktk" I've been able to send most of them to watch the trailer for Speilberg's War of the Worlds to ease their worries.
On other threads we're discussing the demise of the UFO photograph and the demise in all things Fortean due IMO that a majority of them are explainable.
I find it interesting the shift from UFO/Sasquatch/Nightcrawler videos to audio films where in the Fortean subject is now a noise not a object/thing. It got me thinking that hoaxers have changed tactics or...
...isn't that nature of the trickster ultraverse, just when we achieve a point where we can look at an image and say "Fake / Photoshop / simulacra" the trickster ultraverse comes along and says "Oh yeah, explain this." Cue sounds from the Earth.
These new videos and they are new...(if the Earth was going to shift poles I think somewhere deep in the human primeval psyche there would be the recognition that sounds from the sky indicate great upheaval to come)...do vary. From Dingo's Waterphone to drilling which could be carried from afar on still night air to promising the neighbours they'd been an internet sensation leading to them coming out of their house and asking "What's that strange noise?" at the appropriate moment. I saw one from London where the hoaxer's dog was given a role.
I wonder if these noises will be remembered as hoaxes or will a majority of watchers today, in years to come, still talk about with them with hushed tones and if that is the case it leads me to think that essentially it's human nature that creates Forteana adopting the role of storyteller.
On the flip side of that would the debunker, the sceptic ready to explain the unexplainable.
It's been on mind all week and I found it interesting the shift in Fortean media from pictures to numerous videos of noises from the earth. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
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| It is probably easier to create a video with a funny noise on it than one with a weird visual. Not that funny noises don't happen (ooer), but you can see the appeal to the hoaxers and amateur special effects enthusiasts. |
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| uair01 Great Old One Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Total posts: 1108 Gender: Male |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | Locals seek explanation for near-constant hum
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0417/1224314822709.html
Tue, Apr 17, 2012
Residents of the mid-Kerry area where a humming noise has been experienced for a number of weeks say they believe there is a rational explanation to the annoying sound.
Sound tests they have carried out have determined the note is fairly constant, usually E flat.
Barry Lynch of Kilgobnet, near Beaufort, said it was more noticeable at night, but perhaps this was because there was no other distracting noise around. He said the hum was concentrated over a 16km (10-mile) radius. Mr Lynch said he was keeping an open mind on the source, whether wireless, electrical or drilling. Since highlighting the matter on local radio, he has received reports of a similar sound from Tralee, Moll’s Gap, Kilgarvan and Sneem.
The Commission for Communications Regulation has ruled out the source of the noise as wireless. Kerry County Council is investigating. |
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| kmossel Give in
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| Posted: 08-05-2012 18:31 Post subject: |
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More about the 'Windsor Hum':
| Quote: | WINDSOR, Ontario—Last month, Bob Dechert, a senior aide to Canada's foreign minister, was dispatched to Detroit with an important diplomatic mission: To stop a highly annoying noise.
The so-called Windsor hum, described as a low-frequency rumbling sound, has rattled windows and knocked objects off shelves in this border community just across the Detroit River from the Motor City. Locals have said it sounds like a large diesel truck idling, a loud boom box or the bass vocals of Barry White.
Windsor residents have blamed the hum for causing illness, whipping dogs into frenzies, keeping cats housebound and sending goldfish to the surface in backyard ponds. Many have resorted to switching on their furnace fan all season to drown out the noise.
Even weirder, Americans can't seem to hear it. Canadians find that suspicious—especially since their research suggests the hum is coming from the Yankees' side—and accuse U.S. officials of staying silent over the noise.
"The government of Canada takes this issue seriously," Mr. Dechert said after his recent fact-finding trip, which included a visit to a heavily industrialized area on the American side of the river that some Canadian scientists believe is to blame for the hum.
Unexplained noises have tormented city dwellers for centuries. Residents west of Green Bay, Wis., have been trying to identify an occasional loud boom that they say sounds like a cannon blast—geologists have said earthquakes made the noise. Locals in upstate New York and other places have described similar episodes.
But few such cases have become international diplomatic incidents.
After three months of seismic studies conducted by Canada's natural resources department, scientists said the noise was likely coming from Zug Island, a nearly 600-acre man-made island on the Michigan side of the Detroit River. The coal-blackened industrial zone is dominated by steel mills, including facilities operated by U.S. Steel Corp. and others whose blast furnaces belch out steam and flames.
The area is off-limits to the general public and surrounded by wire fences, with the only access via a guarded gate. A spokeswoman for U.S. Steel didn't respond to requests for comment.
The sound has been plaguing Windsor residents on and off for two years. Last May, a particularly loud eruption shook Windsor resident David Robins as he watched the National Basketball Association playoffs. The room began to vibrate with a loud throbbing noise.
Mr. Robins hit mute, fearing he had gone overboard on volume. But the noise persisted. Stepping outside, Mr. Robins said he found the "entire neighborhood pulsating."
"To be honest, I was scared," he said.
Hundreds of other sleep-deprived locals have demanded action from politicians in Windsor and Ottawa.
Locals blamed earthquakes, local salt mines, an underground river and wind turbines in the past. But Canada's seismic study last summer narrowed the likely source down to approximately 250 acres in the vicinity of Zug Island.
American officials say they aren't so sure.
"It may not be actually emanating from Michigan," said Hansen Clarke, the U.S. Representative for the East Detroit congressional district that includes Zug.
Michael D. Bowdler, the mayor of River Rouge, Michigan, the municipality with authority over Zug, said his cash-strapped government doesn't have funds to investigate further. Mr. Bowdler suggests the city of Windsor pay for a survey that could isolate the noise to its exact location.
American officials contend there haven't been complaints on the U.S. side of the border. Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality looked last year at whether the companies at Zug started up any new machinery in the past two years that might be causing the noise and found nothing.
"The only place I am hearing noise from is Canada—from politicians complaining," Mr. Bowdler said.
Mr. Dechert, Canada's parliamentary secretary to the minister of foreign affairs, concedes the source may not be Zug Island, given there are a "number of operations" in the vicinity that could be responsible. But he wants his U.S. counterparts to investigate further to help quiet down the border ruckus.
"There is definitely something going on that's affecting people on the Canadian side of the river," he said.
Canadian diplomats formally raised the issue with the U.S. Department of State last September. They took up the cause again at a meeting on Thursday. A State Department spokesman declined to comment on the meeting.
"We do sympathize with the plight of those affected but, unfortunately, the federal government doesn't have regulatory authority over noise pollution," the spokesman said.
Canadian authorities have also hoped the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would investigate. But a spokesman for the EPA said it doesn't have the authority to assist.
If U.S. officials don't help find a solution, "there will be a lot of upset people," said Brian Masse, a Canadian New Democratic Party member of parliament, whose Windsor constituency sits across the river from Zug Island.
Studying the hum, much less its origin, is challenging. It is difficult to capture the mainly nocturnal sound on tape, since it doesn't hum all the time.
During a recent visit to Windsor by a Wall Street Journal reporter, Windsor resident Gary Grosse played several recordings he said came from the noise, which modulated from metallic grating to a pulsing beat.
On a visit to the area around Zug Island, a fainter version of similar sounds was audible. But Americans nearby said they still can't hear it.
Fishing under the shadow of some of the large mounds of coal that fringe Zug Island, Samson Jenkins says that in 20 trips here he has never heard a noise like that described in Windsor.
"And they say they can hear it all the way in Canada?" said the 45-year-old maintenance worker. "No way."
Nearby, an industrial chimney belched out a twist of sulfurous-smelling smoke. Mr. Jenkins joked the only noise pollution he has heard of late is Canadian singer Celine Dion.
In Windsor, nobody's laughing.
In January 2011, Sonya Skillings's nocturnal baby-feeding sessions were disturbed by what she said sounded like an underground subway beneath the house. Over a year on, it has become so loud sometimes she worries the windows will blow out.
"I just want to be in my rocking chair with my baby asleep on top of me," she said. But "all I can hear is 'vrump, vrump, vrump.' " |
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303990604577370182557339816.html |
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| kmossel Give in
Yeti Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Total posts: 94 Location: San Francisco Gender: Male |
| Posted: 08-05-2012 22:46 Post subject: |
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More about the 'Windsor Hum':
| Quote: | WINDSOR, Ontario—Last month, Bob Dechert, a senior aide to Canada's foreign minister, was dispatched to Detroit with an important diplomatic mission: To stop a highly annoying noise.
The so-called Windsor hum, described as a low-frequency rumbling sound, has rattled windows and knocked objects off shelves in this border community just across the Detroit River from the Motor City. Locals have said it sounds like a large diesel truck idling, a loud boom box or the bass vocals of Barry White.
Windsor residents have blamed the hum for causing illness, whipping dogs into frenzies, keeping cats housebound and sending goldfish to the surface in backyard ponds. Many have resorted to switching on their furnace fan all season to drown out the noise.
Even weirder, Americans can't seem to hear it. Canadians find that suspicious—especially since their research suggests the hum is coming from the Yankees' side—and accuse U.S. officials of staying silent over the noise.
"The government of Canada takes this issue seriously," Mr. Dechert said after his recent fact-finding trip, which included a visit to a heavily industrialized area on the American side of the river that some Canadian scientists believe is to blame for the hum.
Unexplained noises have tormented city dwellers for centuries. Residents west of Green Bay, Wis., have been trying to identify an occasional loud boom that they say sounds like a cannon blast—geologists have said earthquakes made the noise. Locals in upstate New York and other places have described similar episodes.
But few such cases have become international diplomatic incidents.
After three months of seismic studies conducted by Canada's natural resources department, scientists said the noise was likely coming from Zug Island, a nearly 600-acre man-made island on the Michigan side of the Detroit River. The coal-blackened industrial zone is dominated by steel mills, including facilities operated by U.S. Steel Corp. and others whose blast furnaces belch out steam and flames.
The area is off-limits to the general public and surrounded by wire fences, with the only access via a guarded gate. A spokeswoman for U.S. Steel didn't respond to requests for comment.
The sound has been plaguing Windsor residents on and off for two years. Last May, a particularly loud eruption shook Windsor resident David Robins as he watched the National Basketball Association playoffs. The room began to vibrate with a loud throbbing noise.
Mr. Robins hit mute, fearing he had gone overboard on volume. But the noise persisted. Stepping outside, Mr. Robins said he found the "entire neighborhood pulsating."
"To be honest, I was scared," he said.
Hundreds of other sleep-deprived locals have demanded action from politicians in Windsor and Ottawa.
Locals blamed earthquakes, local salt mines, an underground river and wind turbines in the past. But Canada's seismic study last summer narrowed the likely source down to approximately 250 acres in the vicinity of Zug Island.
American officials say they aren't so sure.
"It may not be actually emanating from Michigan," said Hansen Clarke, the U.S. Representative for the East Detroit congressional district that includes Zug.
Michael D. Bowdler, the mayor of River Rouge, Michigan, the municipality with authority over Zug, said his cash-strapped government doesn't have funds to investigate further. Mr. Bowdler suggests the city of Windsor pay for a survey that could isolate the noise to its exact location.
American officials contend there haven't been complaints on the U.S. side of the border. Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality looked last year at whether the companies at Zug started up any new machinery in the past two years that might be causing the noise and found nothing.
"The only place I am hearing noise from is Canada—from politicians complaining," Mr. Bowdler said.
Mr. Dechert, Canada's parliamentary secretary to the minister of foreign affairs, concedes the source may not be Zug Island, given there are a "number of operations" in the vicinity that could be responsible. But he wants his U.S. counterparts to investigate further to help quiet down the border ruckus.
"There is definitely something going on that's affecting people on the Canadian side of the river," he said.
Canadian diplomats formally raised the issue with the U.S. Department of State last September. They took up the cause again at a meeting on Thursday. A State Department spokesman declined to comment on the meeting.
"We do sympathize with the plight of those affected but, unfortunately, the federal government doesn't have regulatory authority over noise pollution," the spokesman said.
Canadian authorities have also hoped the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would investigate. But a spokesman for the EPA said it doesn't have the authority to assist.
If U.S. officials don't help find a solution, "there will be a lot of upset people," said Brian Masse, a Canadian New Democratic Party member of parliament, whose Windsor constituency sits across the river from Zug Island.
Studying the hum, much less its origin, is challenging. It is difficult to capture the mainly nocturnal sound on tape, since it doesn't hum all the time.
During a recent visit to Windsor by a Wall Street Journal reporter, Windsor resident Gary Grosse played several recordings he said came from the noise, which modulated from metallic grating to a pulsing beat.
On a visit to the area around Zug Island, a fainter version of similar sounds was audible. But Americans nearby said they still can't hear it.
Fishing under the shadow of some of the large mounds of coal that fringe Zug Island, Samson Jenkins says that in 20 trips here he has never heard a noise like that described in Windsor.
"And they say they can hear it all the way in Canada?" said the 45-year-old maintenance worker. "No way."
Nearby, an industrial chimney belched out a twist of sulfurous-smelling smoke. Mr. Jenkins joked the only noise pollution he has heard of late is Canadian singer Celine Dion.
In Windsor, nobody's laughing.
In January 2011, Sonya Skillings's nocturnal baby-feeding sessions were disturbed by what she said sounded like an underground subway beneath the house. Over a year on, it has become so loud sometimes she worries the windows will blow out.
"I just want to be in my rocking chair with my baby asleep on top of me," she said. But "all I can hear is 'vrump, vrump, vrump.' " |
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303990604577370182557339816.html |
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| Human_84 We wont hurt you human.
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| Posted: 09-05-2012 21:46 Post subject: |
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I scanned the last 2 pages and didn't see this as posted yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDFNM86I2-U It does a great job of debunking just about every earth noise video.
I think this phenomena is a combination of:
1) Hoaxed videos (not to mention none of the people's reactions in the videos seem believable to me).
2) Real noises that people are only now starting to pay more attention to (factories, etc) because of the new interest. This would explain multiple witnesses reporting to news channels.
3) Existing unexplained earth noises that people have been reporting for a long long time.
Are there any earth noise reports with the same sounds as these videos, from multiple credible people, who live in the same super-rural area that has zero industry whatsoever? |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13555 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-05-2012 23:07 Post subject: |
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| Human_84 wrote: | | Are there any earth noise reports with the same sounds as these videos, from multiple credible people, who live in the same super-rural area that has zero industry whatsoever? |
Dunno if they're exactly the same as the videos, but I'm pretty sure this was the case in rural England back in the 1970s, with cases like the Somerset Bumps, etc. Still doesn't rule out hoaxing or misidentification, of course, and often a feature of the noises was that they couldn't be (or weren't) picked up by recording devices. |
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| Zilch5 Vogon Poet
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| Posted: 17-10-2012 03:55 Post subject: |
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It is now humming in New Zealand:
| Quote: | Mysterious hum reported in Mt Victoria
A mysterious low-pitched humming sound has been troubling some Wellington residents for the last few days and it seems no-one has any idea what it might be.
The Wellington City Council has had several calls over the past few days with the most recent being about 5am today.
Have you heard the noise or know what it could be?
Spokesman Richard MacLean said the complaints had been coming in from Mt Victoria, Newtown and Mt Cook residents. "We are interested to hear if this starts to become a constant thing. We are keeping our ear to the ground."
One Mt Victoria resident said he and his fiancee had noticed the noise on Saturday and it hadn't stopped since.
He likened it to a low to medium pitched humming sound and said it went all day and all night and was "doing his head in".
The phenomena has also been reported in various parts of the world, including Auckland's North Shore. |
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington-central/7792130/Mysterious-hum-reported-in-Mt-Victoria |
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| Cochise Great Old One Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Total posts: 1104 Location: Gwynedd, Wales Age: 58 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 17-10-2012 11:19 Post subject: |
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I think that you can be in a super-rural location and actually hear noises from many miles away, especially if - as in my case - you have a stone built house sitting straight on rock.
I think it acts as a kind of loudspeaker that picks up noises of say, quarrying activity or large scale water pumps a couple of valleys away. This explains why you can only hear the hum inside my house. As mentioned earlier in the thread I've traced one source of 'hum' to a standby generator at a pumping station several fields away. You can't hear it outside unless you get a couple of fields closer - but this particular version of my hum stops when it stops, which is good enough for me! |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
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| Posted: 16-10-2013 08:50 Post subject: |
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Residents on the Waterside say mystery vibration is giving them sleepless nights
7:41am Wednesday 16th October 2013 in News
IT starts at 10pm and drones on all night, making sleep impossible.
People living on the western side of Southampton Water say they are being driven to distraction by a mystery vibration noise that keeps them awake and is starting to affect their health.
Experts have launched an investigation into the cause of a low-frequency drone that began several months ago.
One woman desperate to escape the din has taken to visiting a friend who lives several miles away and sleeping on their sofa.
Teacher Val Cacchi said: “It’s a pulsing, droning noise, rather like an aeroplane that never quite goes over.
"Over the past week it’s become considerably worse and lasts all night.”
Mrs Cacchi lives near Fawley refinery and initially thought the huge petro-chemical complex might be to blame.
“However, I discovered that a number of my colleagues were suffering in the same way.
They live all along the Waterside and I realised it was unlikely to be Esso because of the distance involved,” she said.
“So I contacted the port authority to find out if they were dredging, but they said they weren’t.”
She added: “I’ve been to the doctor in desperation and got some sleeping tablets. I also spend some nights on a friend’s sofa to try and get some sleep. I’ve also lost days at work through feeling so awful.
“Other people have been to the doctor believing they’ve got tinnitus. One person is seriously considering early retirement as she feels she’s no longer able to cope with day-today life.
“It’s got to the stage where you almost dread going to bed at night because you don’t know if you’re going to get any sleep or not.”
Christine English, who runs the allmobility shop in Hythe, lives in Fawley.
She said: “It’s a very loud humming noise that only happens at night.
“I notice it when I go to bed and all the other sounds have stopped. But no one can pinpoint where it comes from – that’s the weird thing.”
A refinery spokesman added: “There is a lot of industry in the Waterside area apart from us. We are aware of the issue and know that New Forest District Council is trying to identify the source of the noise.”
A council spokesman said it had received ten complaints, mostly from people living in the Hythe and Dibden Purlieu area.
She added: “Due to the large amount of heavy industry along the Waterside area the Environment Agency and the council’s environmental health teams are working together to establish the cause of the noise.
“Out-of-hours monitoring is to be carried out as part of the investigation.”
Anyone affected by the noise can call the environment protection line on 023 8028 5411 or the Environment Agency hotline on 0800 80 70 60.
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10740966.What_is_the_mystery_drone_giving_Hampshire_residents_nightmares_/ |
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