Mystery Hums / Sounds –
Websites focused on this phenomenon:
- StrangeSounds.org
- TheHum.info – The World Hum Map and Database by Glen MacPhearson, British Columbia
- HumForum – Yahoo forum
- TheWorldHum.com
The Unending Mystery of Havana Syndrome – April 28, 2023 (MP3)
“In late 2016, American diplomats in Havana, Cuba started hearing a mysterious buzzing sound and experiencing debilitating symptoms. On this week’s On the Media, why the government now disputes theories that it was a secret Russian weapon. Plus, what the electric hum of your refrigerator and the uncanny hearing ability of pigeons reveal about the world we live in.
1. Adam Entous, staff writer at The New York Times, Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Robert Bartholomew, sociologist and author of Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria, on the investigation into the mysterious affliction that spread across the globe. Listen.”
Miles’ Mystery Hum Experience Lecture – September 2017
Miles’ and Mack’s Mystery Hum Experiences discussed on PsiOp-Radio 184 – 170402
General Articles:
- A Mysterious Sound Is Driving People Insane — And Nobody Knows What’s Causing It – Mic.com [Excellent, comprehensive article!] (Audio)
- The Rumbling Below: Strange Sounds of “Engine Noise” From Underground – Micah Hanks, Mysterious Universe
- Mystery Ocean Hum May be Migration Signal, or Fish Farting – LiveScience.com
- Mysterious Ocean Buzz Traced To Daily Fish Migration – NPR
- Ocean Waves and Earth Hums: A Mystery Solved? – MysteryBooms.com
- The Hum – CrystalLinks.com
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Reports from the 1970s recorded by physicist William R. Corliss, first one in Colorado in 1970, reported by T. Adams and a group of campers:
“Camping on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristos, northwest of Mount Blanca and south of the Sand Dunes, we heard the sounds in 1970. Two or three nights in succession, it ‘cranked up’ after midnight and subsided shortly before dawn. It wasn’t really loud enough to hear over conversation–but definitely sounded like a motor of some sort, with a suggestion of a dynamo-type whine to it. And others had said that it sometimes seems even louder with an ear to the ground. One could easily imagine the sound was coming from beneath the surface, but whether it did or not remains purely speculative.”
Another incident near Yakima, Washington in 1978 reported by fire control officers near the Yakima Indian Reservation:
“In September 1978 the sound of underground turbines or engines was heard at Sopelia Tower at the southern boundary of the [Yakima Indian Reservation] for seven hours (approximately 9:00 PM to 4 AM, September 3-4). According to [a statement by W.J. Vogel, Chief Fire Control Officer], the noise was like a ‘turbine’ or ‘unsynchronized propellers on a multi-engine aircraft.’ When let outside the lookout station, the fire lookout’s dog displayed anxiety, and the lookout felt barely perceptible vibrations under her feet when standing on a concrete slab. The lookout said she had heard the same sound during the summer of 1978, but always during daylight.”
SOURCE: The Rumbling Below: Strange Sounds of “Engine Noise” From Underground – Micah Hanks, Mysterious Universe
Articles / Resources by Region
Australia
Bondi (2009?)
Canada
British Columbia
- Mystery hum? Listen to spooky sound that baffled scientists for 40 years after new claims it is now recorded on camera – Mirror.co.uk (Video) Sept. 2013
Windsor Hum – Ontario
- Summary of the Windsor Hum Study Results – Global Affairs Canada
- Report reveals Windsor Hum is real, source Zug Island (With video) – Windsor Star
New Zealand
Auckland
North America
California
- Apple’s Silent On Mysterious Noises Eminating From Their Complex – MercuryNews.com
Connecticut
- Steve Kohlhase …
“hypothesizes that the source of the Connecticut Hum is industrial rather than military, generated by a network of nearby high volume gas pipelines. The arrival of the Hum, Kohlhase argues, coincided with increased development of natural gas pipelines in northern Fairfield County, and the increased hydraulic pressure used by the Iroquois and Algonquin interstate pipelines that run through his corner of Connecticut could result in the non-directional, extremely low frequency (ELF) humming noise previously unheard in the region.”
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State and local governments may finally be paying attention. Worried about the potential behavioral effects of the Connecticut Hum, Kohlhase dispatched concerned emails to state and local health officials laying out his research. Kohlhase was so persistent that he contacted Connecticut State Police investigators almost six weeks after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, insisting that the Hum allegedly produced by nearby gas pipelines could have had something to do with Adam Lanza’s behavior leading up to the shooting. While law enforcement officials field a flood of calls from conspiracy theorists and pranksters following any major incident, investigators deemed the information Kohlhase provided “appropriate” for inclusion in the 7,000 images, audio files, videos and documents released to the public.
New Mexico
Taos Mystery Hum
- Mysterious hum driving people crazy around the world – WRCBTV.com
Oregon
- Mystery High-Pitched Noise Keeps Oregon Town Awake At Night – The Guardian
- Return of “The Whistler”: Mystery Deepens in Oregon Town – Micah Hanks, Mysterious Universe
- Forest Grove’s creepy night noise: Here’s what it could be – OregonLive.com
Texas Mystery Hums
- Austin / South Austin
- Cedar Park
- McAllen
- Round Rock
Austin
- Hearing is Believing – Strange Sounds Reported Over Texas 1/30/2016
- “The sound was almost defining.” Are You Hearing It, Too, Texans? 12/20/2014
- Hey Texas! Do You hear That Hum? 5/21/2013
Scotland
Largs Hum (1970s?)
United Kingdom
Bristol (1960s / Current)
- Mysterious ‘Bristol hum’ perplexes residents of English city – UPI.com 2016
- Mystery hum? Listen to spooky sound that baffled scientists for 40 years after new claims it is now recorded on camera – Bristol Post, April 2015
Grimsby
- Has the mystery of the Grimsby hum been solved? Grimsby Telegraph, April 2015
Manchester
- Mystery hum around Manchester tower that cannot be silenced – Metro.co.uk (Video/Audio)
Plymouth
- Plymouth hum mystery solved – French scientist has found the cause – PlymouthHerald.co.uk
- Strange droning mystery hum returns to Plymouth, UK – PlymouthHerald.co.uk
- Can you hear The Hum? Mystery noise which drives sufferers mad could be heard in Plymouth area – PlymouthHerald.co.uk
Woodland (2011?)
Explanations advanced…
- Aeolian harp effects
- Blast furnace at the U.S. Steel plant on Zug Island generating VLF waves
- Building noises
- ELF / VLF – Extremely Low Frequency / Very Low Frequency waves
- Fish Farting / Mating
- Idling Diesel Trucks
- Industrial HVAC systems
- Internal body noises
- Low Frequency Tinnitus – google search
- Microseismic activity caused by ocean waves
- Migration Signal of sea life
- Ocean waves
Files
- SMiles Lewis percipient in South Austin, Texas