Does anyone hear the hum?

[Spud]

The Hum is a phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people. Hums have been widely reported by national media in the UK and the United States. The Hum is sometimes prefixed with the name of a locality where the problem has been particularly publicized: e.g., the "Bristol Hum" or the "Taos Hum".

Data from a Taos Hum study suggests that around two percent of the population could detect the Taos Hum. For those who can hear the Hum it can be a very disturbing phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

[Leonard James]

Supernatural bees?

[floo]

I have a constant humming in my ears, particularly the left one, which is due to tinnitus. I have had it for over 30 years and more prominently in the last ten years!

[Jack Knave]

My dad was susceptible to the hum and I am in my old age. I reckon it is low frequency industrial noise that travels through the ground for miles. My dad retired to the coast where there were oil rigs way off shore. I heard this as I got older but couldn't years before this. I reckon it must be genetic or something that causes some in their old age to start to hear this stuff....?

[Spud]

Thanks for sharing that, Jack. Good to know I'm not alone! I hear it at night, and sometimes I have to wear a pair of industrial mufflers. Even they don't cut the noise out completely. I am thinking that one way to reduce the noise might be to upgrade our single-glazed windows to double-glazed. I will need to check out whether that will work or not.

[Spud]

I reckon it must be genetic or something that causes some in their old age to start to hear this stuff....?

I think it's over-sensitive hearing. My right ear over compensates for my left ear which is high-tone deaf. So I hear the hum with my right ear only.

[Rhiannon]

It seems to be entirely natural.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/have-you-heard-the-hum-mystery-of-earths-low-droning-noise-could-now-be-solved-10182111.html

[OH MY WORLD!]

CRAZIES!!

[Spud]

Two points regarding that article, Rhi and Rose. Firstly, why has it only been heard over the last forty years? There is no record of it being heard before that. Also, I don't hear it in the countryside away from the town- I would expect to if it was coming from oscillation of the earth.

[Harrowby Hall]

CRAZIES!!

Could you elucidate, please?

[Jack Knave]

I reckon it must be genetic or something that causes some in their old age to start to hear this stuff....?

I think it's over-sensitive hearing. My right ear over compensates for my left ear which is high-tone deaf. So I hear the hum with my right ear only.

From what you have said in your two posts I'm thinking it is an internal problem. Your hum sounds too loud to be 'The Hum'. I'm not a doctor so I'm only guessing - in this case you can't trust me.

[Jack Knave]

The Hum is a phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people. Hums have been widely reported by national media in the UK and the United States. The Hum is sometimes prefixed with the name of a locality where the problem has been particularly publicized: e.g., the "Bristol Hum" or the "Taos Hum".

Data from a Taos Hum study suggests that around two percent of the population could detect the Taos Hum. For those who can hear the Hum it can be a very disturbing phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

Fortunately no.

I haven't heard mention of " the Hum" for years. The Bristol hum was all the rage many years ago, when I was a teenager.

We also had the "bang" which turned out to be a plane, I think 😉

😀🌹

Just had a look at the bang is still around too

http://metro.co.uk/2014/11/30/loud-and-mysterious-bang-noises-heard-across-uk-4968058/

Have you heard the plop, Rose?

[Jack Knave]

This is interesting

"Submarines, as well as phone masts and gas pipes, were blamed for the hum Submarines, as well as masts and gas pipes, were blamed for the hum However, the search for the truth could now be over as researchers claim that microseismic activity from long ocean waves impacting the sea bed is what makes our planet vibrate and produces the droning sound.

The pressure of the waves on the seafloor generates seismic waves that cause the Earth to oscillate, said Fabrice Ardhuin, a senior research scientist at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France.

The continuous waves produce sounds lasting from 13 to 300 seconds. They can be heard by a relatively small proportion of people – who are sensitive to the hums – and also by seismic instruments.

“We have made a big step in explaining this mysterious signal and where it is coming from and what is the mechanism,” Ardhuin said of the study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union."

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/have-you-heard-the-hum-mystery-of-earths-low-droning-noise-could-now-be-solved-10182111.html

If it's coming from the sea that would explain the plop as well.

[Jack Knave]

Two points regarding that article, Rhi and Rose. Firstly, why has it only been heard over the last forty years? There is no record of it being heard before that. Also, I don't hear it in the countryside away from the town- I would expect to if it was coming from oscillation of the earth.

Good point. I only heard it where my father lived. I can't say I hear it where I am now, though I do hear some strange sounds now and again at night when it is deadly quiet.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Two points regarding that article, Rhi and Rose. Firstly, why has it only been heard over the last forty years? There is no record of it being heard before that. Also, I don't hear it in the countryside away from the town- I would expect to if it was coming from oscillation of the earth.

Good point. I only heard it where my father lived. I can't say I hear it where I am now, though I do hear some strange sounds now and again at night when it is deadly quiet.

In true Meldrevian tradition I do not hear the hum therefore it cannot exist.

[Jack Knave]

Two points regarding that article, Rhi and Rose. Firstly, why has it only been heard over the last forty years? There is no record of it being heard before that. Also, I don't hear it in the countryside away from the town- I would expect to if it was coming from oscillation of the earth.

Good point. I only heard it where my father lived. I can't say I hear it where I am now, though I do hear some strange sounds now and again at night when it is deadly quiet.

In true Meldrevian tradition I do not hear the hum therefore it cannot exist.

"HUMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm"

Did you hear that, Vlad?

[Jack Knave]

This is interesting

"Submarines, as well as phone masts and gas pipes, were blamed for the hum Submarines, as well as masts and gas pipes, were blamed for the hum However, the search for the truth could now be over as researchers claim that microseismic activity from long ocean waves impacting the sea bed is what makes our planet vibrate and produces the droning sound.

The pressure of the waves on the seafloor generates seismic waves that cause the Earth to oscillate, said Fabrice Ardhuin, a senior research scientist at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France.

The continuous waves produce sounds lasting from 13 to 300 seconds. They can be heard by a relatively small proportion of people – who are sensitive to the hums – and also by seismic instruments.

“We have made a big step in explaining this mysterious signal and where it is coming from and what is the mechanism,” Ardhuin said of the study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union."

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/have-you-heard-the-hum-mystery-of-earths-low-droning-noise-could-now-be-solved-10182111.html

If it's coming from the sea that would explain the plop as well.

Perhaps that's the scientist falling in 😉

Well, he/she must have been very fat!!! 

[Jack Knave]

Apparently, down in deepest Lincolnshire they can hear the cauliflowers growing.

http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/Mysterious-creaking-noises-Lincolnshire-growing/story-26773269-detail/story.html

In Cornwall too

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/beware-cauliflower-creak-vegetables-ghostly-5949107

Nah. That's a very old man, with stiff joints, walking along the flat ground.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Apparently, down in deepest Lincolnshire they can hear the cauliflowers growing.

http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/Mysterious-creaking-noises-Lincolnshire-growing/story-26773269-detail/story.html

In Cornwall too

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/beware-cauliflower-creak-vegetables-ghostly-5949107

Nah. That's a very old man, with stiff joints, walking along the flat ground.

The peripatetic Rigid Spliff Man!

[OH MY WORLD!]

Sure Harrowby, my pleasure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhQ9HquDNEM

[Harrowby Hall]

Sure Harrowby, my pleasure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhQ9HquDNEM

I'm sorry, Johnny, I understand neither the connection with this thread nor the observations of an animator on the behaviour of cats has to do with your single word contribution in your earlier response.

[Leonard James]

Sure Harrowby, my pleasure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhQ9HquDNEM

I'm sorry, Johnny, I understand neither the connection with this thread nor the observations of an animator on the behaviour of cats has to do with your single word contribution in your earlier response.

JC, like his "God", moves in mysterious ways. 

[BashfulAnthony]

Sure Harrowby, my pleasure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhQ9HquDNEM

I'm sorry, Johnny, I understand neither the connection with this thread nor the observations of an animator on the behaviour of cats has to do with your single word contribution in your earlier response.

JC, like his "God", moves in mysterious ways. 

Nothing mysterious about your ways, though.  We just need to guess which template is coming out today.

[Leonard James]

Sure Harrowby, my pleasure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhQ9HquDNEM

I'm sorry, Johnny, I understand neither the connection with this thread nor the observations of an animator on the behaviour of cats has to do with your single word contribution in your earlier response.

JC, like his "God", moves in mysterious ways. 

Nothing mysterious about your ways, though.  We just need to guess which template is coming out today.

Yes dear, you're right of course, as always! 

[Hope]

"HUMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm"

Always thought that hum was the sound of the trains (passenger and coal) that pass 50 yards from our house every 15 - 20 minutes.