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Have you heard the Taos hum?

BillyBattyBillyBatty Posts: 6,986
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The ‘Taos Hum’ is a low-pitched sound heard in numerous places worldwide, especially in the USA, UK, and northern europe. It is usually heard only in quiet environments, and is often described as sounding like a distant diesel engine. Since it has proven indetectable by microphones or VLF antennae, its source and nature is still a mystery.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 5,304
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    It's an ill wind brewing.
    *parp*
  • lemoncurdlemoncurd Posts: 57,778
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    We used to call it "The Bristol Hum" round these parts.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 3,799
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    I thought it was just 'the hum'. The 'ho-hum' I call it :p. It was on the BBC news site the other day. I think it's just a sensitising phenomenon - people exposed to the strange sounds of modern life end up with a residual experience of sound, a bit like 'ringing in the ears'.

    Still, it would make a 'good' Hollywood movie.

    The Hum.
    Only They Could Hear It.
    But What Did It Mean For Mankind?
    (tbh nothing, but keep watching...)
  • Alt-F4Alt-F4 Posts: 10,960
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    It's the sound made by moon radiation bouncing off ocean waves. Mystery solved.
  • spiney2spiney2 Posts: 27,058
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    In The Sixth Sense (she invented this phrase). Rosalind Heywood calls it The Singing ......

    ...... sorry I think it was her other book The Infinite Hive.
  • agentzagentz Posts: 2,483
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    Yep, and it's bloody annoying. I have no idea what the noise is, but I'm sure it's made worse by realising it's there, then you brain fixates on it and it gets amplified and it becomes a vicious circle.

    Did I say it's bloody annoying?
  • Zero gravitasZero gravitas Posts: 12,368
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    Just a background noise that I mostly filter out. No big deal.
  • Landdrifter24Landdrifter24 Posts: 206
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    I also get this, started two years ago out of the blue and the only thing i have found to combat it is to have a fan on when im in bed which somehow cuts through or stops me hearing the "hum" it only seems to be in my right hear though and sounds exactly like that a heavy deisal Engine outside my house.

    So basically i have to sleep with a fan on or i dont sleep
  • Landdrifter24Landdrifter24 Posts: 206
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    BillyBatty wrote: »
    Since it has proven indetectable by microphones or

    Thats actually not true.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 3,799
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    spiney2 wrote: »
    In The Sixth Sense (she invented this phrase). Rosalind Heywood calls it The Singing ......

    ...... sorry I think it was her other book The Infinite Hive.
    I think it's quite an old expression.
    "The young clairvoyant of Singsaa (Norway), known as 'the boy with the sixth sense'.

    ~ NYT, 22 September 1907
  • lemoncurdlemoncurd Posts: 57,778
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    Landdrifter24 wrote: »
    Thats actually not true.

    Do elucidate...
  • Zero gravitasZero gravitas Posts: 12,368
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    lemoncurd wrote: »
    Do elucidate...
    Typically, the Hum is difficult to detect with microphones, and its source and nature are hard to localize.
    Wikipedia.
    Since it has proven indetectable by microphones or VLF antennae, its source and nature is still a mystery.
    Taos home page.

    Google Loads more there. Take your pick.
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