May 22, 2024 • 18 mins
The Hum—a mysterious low-frequency noise heard globally, including in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada—varies by location, like the Taos Hum or Windsor Hum. What is it? Industrial noise? Tinnitus? Or something else?
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(00:00):
So I'm working on my summer chin. Oh are we recording? God damn
it, Edwin, did you knowwe're recording. I've started doing face yoga
and I'm really hoping that's a thing. Yeah, face yoga, And I
used to make fun of it.Now I'm older and I'm like, oh,
I got it. So anyway,my chin's going to be looking good
(00:22):
this summer. Everyone, get ready. Welcome to Scary Mystery Surprise, where
we talk about scary things that surprisedus around the internet. I'm Edwin and
I'm Michelle. You probably didn't getto see this because I had just gotten
it or was getting it done becauseI had just met Ness at a conference
(00:45):
that we were at. Whenever Igo out now and after that, after
I receive this thing, I alwayswalk around with this blue pouch with a
zipper on it. Huh, what'sin there? And this is not an
ad. It's little earplugs. Youcan still hear things, but like they're
made for my ear, so Ilike it just kind of lowers down the
(01:06):
volume of things. And ears areactually super super important because obviously for us
we're at headphones on, always listening, always doing things. And I noticed
that a lot of people don't reallycare about this thing. They'll be up
in front of a really loud speaker. Anyway, it turns out there's this
phenomenon that's affecting a very small portionof the population, but it's affecting them
(01:29):
in a really annoying way. Ifanyone that's listening to this right now knows
what I'm talking about, you're gonnaget it like that. It's going to
be like, oh, I hearthat. And the thing is, there
is this mysterious hum that has beenbothering people for a long time. Few
(01:53):
people can hear it. So Ihaven't done the math, but I think
that if the percentages here are correct, there there are about twenty two people
that are twenty two people listening tothis episode right now might know, like
twenty two people in the world,Like you're trying to reach twenty two people
(02:16):
right now, twenty two, justtwenty two that hear the hum. There's
gonna be a few people that mightknow like, oh, I can hear
that. I have that ability.Everyone else dismisses this as you know,
all your troubles are just in yourhead or it's like tendonitis or whatever in
your hearing, Yeah, tendonitis whatever, what's it called? And tonightis whatever?
(02:40):
Do you know what I mean?Listeners? In twenty thirteen, citizens
of Windsor, Ontario finally got agroup of researchers to pay attention to something
that was bothering them like crazy beginningaround twenty eleven, but people really started
paying attention to them in twenty thirteenbecause they were complaining about something weird that
(03:02):
you might just be like, ah, you'll get over it. And it
was a strange hum that will lastfor hours. The researchers, led by
an associate professor of engineering at theUniversity of Windsor, confirmed the sound and
said that there was a frequency ofabout thirty five hertz that was sounding at
(03:22):
different times of the day. Oh. Interesting. The researchers suspected that it
was a blast furnace. You hada US facility somewhere on the US side,
but the government didn't let them investigatefurther. It's the US very secretive.
They're like, no, you can't, no, well, business,
business is very secretive. They basicallyleft it at that, so the scientists
(03:44):
were like, ah, oh well, and when the plant closed in twenty
twenty, the hum reportedly stopped suspicious. By the way, when I was
looking this up, Michelle, likeI saw that they started being reported,
Like the earliest I found that,like an official one was in the seventies.
Oh interesting, I'm like, Iguess the hum could have existed anytime
(04:08):
the Industrial Revolution started her tying itto that or whatever or companies, but
a weird environment hum. I don'tknow, there's no one alive for before
the Industrial Revolution that can be like, yeah, it was a thing.
Also, like I don't think therewas a way to like mass distribute news
that well, not that quickly,you know, way way back then.
(04:31):
So like if there was one personhearing a ham, they would just be
dismissed because they could never find eachother. They can never be like oh
I hear it too, or Ihear it too. It's more like,
oh, yeah, somebody used tohear a hum. Like it's more difficult.
In England in this nineteen seventies,there's this phenomenon called the Bristol Hum
and it was a first to belinked to a specific city. A bunch
(04:51):
of articles started coming out in thenewspaper it's called the Sunday Mirror, and
then people started writing in saying thatthey too had heard the same hum and
they thought that it was just themat first, until the editors started getting
all these letters like I hear ittoo, I hear it too, And
they all described it the same way. It was a low rumble that was
(05:13):
heard throughout the city. And atfirst it was just a noise, like
it was just like this a reallyannoying thing, But then they was set
to be linked two people taking theirown vibes because of it. What.
In fact, people talked about itso much that even serious researchers, like
there was one group that wrote fora scientific journal called Applied Acoustics where they
(05:36):
called it quote a particular environmental noisephenomenon which appears to be a cause of
real and severe disturbance to certain people. Serious stuff, right, the just
make it scientifically. Yeah, itwould be pretty disturbing to hear. I
mean, it would be weird tohear ringing in your ear all the time,
and it'd be weird to have justa thing, especially if not everyone
(05:56):
could hear it. Oh, thisgroup took a gat as to what it
was and they said, oh,it's industrial sources you know that are far
away, so it might be true, but was the windsor one in Canada
looking at this case and being like, oh, they said industrial, so
it might be industrial. But thenagain it did stop in Canada once the
(06:19):
US Steel Company things shut down,So all signs point to industrial causes,
right, some deep sounds coming fromlike a warehouse or something. I don't
know if you ever worked at afactory or like a distribution center or like
a place with forklifts, but there'salways heavy things being moved, and those
(06:39):
things really thumped the ground really hard. It's just a boom. They can
just feel that rumble like a constructionsite. Construction sites do this all the
time. Just oh yeah that.But also like trains, you'll hear something
and you're like, what is that? Like I can get that at my
house where I'm like, why doI hear? And it's the train going
by. I can't see the trainwhere I live, but it's definitely the
(07:00):
train, you know. Airports alsohave this noise like this. Yeah,
even to this day, people acrossthe UK report the deep, humming,
rumbling, annoying sound clustered around differentcities like hythe Plymouth and Swansea. And
even though they are studied. Theanswers are always always inconclusive, and I
(07:23):
hate that. I'm just like yourscientists, you guys, like come on,
but again that is an answer.It's like we don't know or we
can't be certain, so here itis. Another interesting theory is that the
noise might be caused by the matingcall of midshipmen fish. What which sound
like louder droning sounds like that.I imagine it more like like what,
(07:51):
yeah, that's way more sexual andthat they can go even for hours.
The scientists here like this fish ishorny fish, like has horns. Wow,
it's that literal huh. Or theymight mean that and be playing on
the word. But yeah, theyended up with those two theories where house
sounds and horny fish. Now thisthing, by the way, they say
(08:13):
it's some mysterious sound because it canbe heard at different areas of the world,
like different places, and everybody reportsit the exact same way. Just
this deep rumbly sound that comes atnight and it's very annoying. Maybe someone
out there has heard the same thing. But can you hear electricity, Michelle?
Can you hear like from a sometimesbut not like regularly? I have
(08:37):
to say. It's like maybe likean old house or something. If I
can do it, and I canusually hear it turn on. If all
of the electricity is turned off,I can hear it turn on, and
then I kind of forget. Soit's kind of like a constant humming little
thing. Okay for me when Iused to plug in things, sometimes I
can hear this, Like if Iplug in my phone, for example,
(08:58):
if I angle my ear just right, I can hear it and I turn
away and I stop hearing it rightAlso against the wall, I see hear
like this, like I turn awaya little bit and my ear just doesn't
get it anymore. But I knowit's there, and I'm pretty sure other
people can hear this too. Butanyway, his thing was turning into a
(09:20):
whole thing, like this global thing. And in this article I found in
The Guardian by Jordan Tannehill talks aboutall these cases, like all these things
that I just talked about too,and they bring up a potential answer that
was mentioned at an Institute of Biologyconference in nineteen seventy three. They're saying
that the jet stream really fast airis rubbing against a slower stream of air
(09:45):
and it's making a huh oh interesting. French scientists got into it as well,
saying that this may be caused byocean waves extending down to the ocean
floor and shaking the earth as theycollide with ridges, which is like,
what is that when I get thatEngland is an island? Pretty much,
but like it'd still be hard tohear. True, quite very true.
(10:07):
I remember like being in a pooland hearing the noises of you, like
tapping on something. Everything sounds weirdand a lot deeper. Oh yeah.
Other theories also mentioned volcanoes, lightningstrikes, submarine communication whales. Although interestingly
enough about the submarine thing, there'sthis method that they used that I had
(10:30):
to look up and I went alittle bit too deep into it more than
I should have. So I'll justmention the name, and that's it microwave
auditory effect, which is, youknow, a way to communicate underwater and
everything. And it was studied bythe Pentagon for use as we guessed it
a weapon. We want to destroythings, kill people, and because of
(10:54):
that we go to some conspiracies.Some people say that it's a government mind
control experiment. They should do abetter job though, Yeah, like with
five G. Like, I don'tknow much about five G and everything.
Some people swear by actually met somebodywho was really into it, that it's
(11:18):
bad for us, that it's harmful, that it's going to cause cancer,
that it's mind controlling you, thatit's emitting these frequencies that only your brain
can catch and you don't know it. And I mean I kind of just
listened for a little bit and yeah, it makes logical sense the way that
using their logic, but yeah,jump into their world for it, and
(11:41):
then yeah it does fix it.Yeah, it's like did you go into
their dimension? And it's like,yeah, you know what, that's true.
But then you're like, okay,some people say that you can use
this thing called the mother Earth frequencyand it could ignite dormant areas of your
brains. So Toyles, New Mexico, was also a place that reported this
(12:01):
hum oh interesting. Scientists from theLos Alamos National Laboratory and the Sandia National
Laboratories went in and there again completelypredictable. Here they're like, we don't
know, we don't know what itis. See and that's kind of far
away from the ocean. Yeah,what is it? Are there industrial areas
(12:24):
around there. I mean there's likelong stretches of just nothing, you know,
like scrub brush and stuff like that. It's like flat, and then
you go into the mountains, it'sreally beautiful. It's one of those landscapes
where you can see rainstorms far off. Yeah, it's weird because, like
you know, the scientists there werelike, we believe you. We want
(12:46):
to make it clear, we believeyou, but we don't know what it
is. And that's when they figuredit out, like only two percent of
people are said to be able tohear it, yeah, out of the
whole town or whatever, so likethey can they get coming up with that
too to five percent range of peoplecan hear it, and that's about it.
Also, people complain that it onlycomes at night, like you can
(13:07):
hear this, so what could itbe? And the person who wrote this
article in the Guardian they found alot of information at some of these forums
that people that can hear, whichthey call themselves like hearers or something like
that this I mean just a madeup word, but they all confirmed the
same things. They're like, yeah, I can hear like this, I
heard it hear at night, Ihear it during this time And people say
(13:28):
that yeah, and other people arejust like, I don't know what you're
talking about, Like, this istotally fine. One intriguing theory that I
found. The HUM is said tobe responsible for some recent mass killings in
the US, what like Adam Lanzaa Newton, Connecticut, the school shootings
there in an area that was hometo the Connecticut HUM. Oh. Also,
(13:52):
Aaron Alexis, who killed twelve peopleat the Washington Naval Yard in twenty
thirteen, had written my ELF weaponor ELF weapon into the stock of his
shotgun ELF ELF extremely low frequency.Oh So I don't know if that's just
the play on words or like ifit's actually linked. But it's a theory
(14:13):
and people have started digging into it. They're like, is this associated with
this? Is this what it means? Is this a it's a thing.
But anyway, there's so many things, Like scientists have tried it. Acoustic
researchers have gotten into it. They'relike, we need to figure this out.
And they think that it might bean auditory hallucination, people just imagining
a HUM. Scientists love to argue, but like they argue scientifically. And
(14:41):
this other guy, David Deming fromthe University of Oklahoma was like, there's
cases of mass illusion, like thewitch hunts. Yeah. I mean,
look, humans go crazy every couplehundred years, you know, multiple times
every hundred years. But the humI don't know. I don't know.
I think I believe that people arehearing it. I believe them too.
(15:03):
I'm like, you can hear something. I believe you can hear something.
I can't hear it. There's peoplethat have left their homes. They're like,
I'm getting out of the city.They leave and then they stop hearing
it. So that gives you thatidea where it's like, okay, might
be a location thing, like it'snot all in your head. But like
you said earlier about tinitis or tinitis, yeah, that one's a really high
frequency tone, yeah right, butthis one's like low. Oh interesting,
(15:28):
you know, it's like this lowlow, low thing. So it's it's
different. Another theory is that peoplethat are just really sensitive with their hearing,
like they have very sensitive ears,then they can hear between twenty and
one hundred hertz. I think thatthere's just some people that have that type
of hear Yeah, but if thereis sensitive hearing, then what are they
(15:52):
hearing the vibration of the planet orsomething I don't know. And that's the
last theory that there that's like probablythe most accepted, widely accepted ones is
that once we started getting electricity cables, all this stuff, generators and everything,
the earth or I guess cities startedgetting this natural sounding thing that blended
(16:15):
in with the nature I guess withlike regular sounds that we hear, wind
and everything that is this constant thatit's just there all the time, and
only some of us can hear becausewe pay attention to it. We can.
We have that sensitive ear to catchit. But that's what it might
be just electricity from the modern world, which I mean, like you do
(16:36):
notice like if you've ever been througha power out, it just like everything
goes off and it's like dead quiet, and then when everything comes back on,
you'll hear that woosh and then it'snot as quiet as it was.
There's something there even if you're nothearing it, you know, like there's
energy is there now either way,like this is it's I mean, if
you look it up, the humis like a constant thing that it's just
(16:57):
like people trying to figure it out. They're trying to see what it is.
Nobody knows affecting all these people allover the world. Like, let's
say it was electricity. Why can'tthey just compare frequencies out in the middle
of nowhere and then come back andsee if that's just being part of the
city. Can they get closer tothis sound? Yeah? They I don't
know. Why can't we figure thisout? Shouldn't we be able to at
(17:19):
this point? I mean, wecan tell the weather, like to see
hour by hour when it's gonna rainand when it's gonna stop. We could
probably get closer to this sound andbe like, oh, this is where
it's coming from. Well, Ithink it's because it's only affecting a few
people and driving them insane, butit's not affecting masses. I think you're
right, Like I think, untilwe get like a president that can hear
(17:41):
it anyway, One thing is forsure. This thing sounds annoying. Do
you hear the hum? Oh?I mean I don't, but I sympathize
for anyone who does. But anyway, what are we gonna talk about next
week? I don't know, butI think it'll be a surprise scary.
(18:06):
Mystery Surprise is hosted by Michelle Newman, and Edwin Kovarubias. This podcast was
edited and sound designed by Sarah VorhezWendel, a VW Sound
So I'm working on my summer chin. Oh are we recording? God damn
it, Edwin, did you knowwe're recording. I've started doing face yoga
and I'm really hoping that's a thing. Yeah, face yoga, And I
used to make fun of it.Now I'm older and I'm like, oh,
I got it. So anyway,my chin's going to be looking good
(00:22):
this summer. Everyone, get ready. Welcome to Scary Mystery Surprise, where
we talk about scary things that surprisedus around the internet. I'm Edwin and
I'm Michelle. You probably didn't getto see this because I had just gotten
it or was getting it done becauseI had just met Ness at a conference
(00:45):
that we were at. Whenever Igo out now and after that, after
I receive this thing, I alwayswalk around with this blue pouch with a
zipper on it. Huh, what'sin there? And this is not an
ad. It's little earplugs. Youcan still hear things, but like they're
made for my ear, so Ilike it just kind of lowers down the
(01:06):
volume of things. And ears areactually super super important because obviously for us
we're at headphones on, always listening, always doing things. And I noticed
that a lot of people don't reallycare about this thing. They'll be up
in front of a really loud speaker. Anyway, it turns out there's this
phenomenon that's affecting a very small portionof the population, but it's affecting them
(01:29):
in a really annoying way. Ifanyone that's listening to this right now knows
what I'm talking about, you're gonnaget it like that. It's going to
be like, oh, I hearthat. And the thing is, there
is this mysterious hum that has beenbothering people for a long time. Few
(01:53):
people can hear it. So Ihaven't done the math, but I think
that if the percentages here are correct, there there are about twenty two people
that are twenty two people listening tothis episode right now might know, like
twenty two people in the world,Like you're trying to reach twenty two people
(02:16):
right now, twenty two, justtwenty two that hear the hum. There's
gonna be a few people that mightknow like, oh, I can hear
that. I have that ability.Everyone else dismisses this as you know,
all your troubles are just in yourhead or it's like tendonitis or whatever in
your hearing, Yeah, tendonitis whatever, what's it called? And tonightis whatever?
(02:40):
Do you know what I mean?Listeners? In twenty thirteen, citizens
of Windsor, Ontario finally got agroup of researchers to pay attention to something
that was bothering them like crazy beginningaround twenty eleven, but people really started
paying attention to them in twenty thirteenbecause they were complaining about something weird that
(03:02):
you might just be like, ah, you'll get over it. And it
was a strange hum that will lastfor hours. The researchers, led by
an associate professor of engineering at theUniversity of Windsor, confirmed the sound and
said that there was a frequency ofabout thirty five hertz that was sounding at
(03:22):
different times of the day. Oh. Interesting. The researchers suspected that it
was a blast furnace. You hada US facility somewhere on the US side,
but the government didn't let them investigatefurther. It's the US very secretive.
They're like, no, you can't, no, well, business,
business is very secretive. They basicallyleft it at that, so the scientists
(03:44):
were like, ah, oh well, and when the plant closed in twenty
twenty, the hum reportedly stopped suspicious. By the way, when I was
looking this up, Michelle, likeI saw that they started being reported,
Like the earliest I found that,like an official one was in the seventies.
Oh interesting, I'm like, Iguess the hum could have existed anytime
(04:08):
the Industrial Revolution started her tying itto that or whatever or companies, but
a weird environment hum. I don'tknow, there's no one alive for before
the Industrial Revolution that can be like, yeah, it was a thing.
Also, like I don't think therewas a way to like mass distribute news
that well, not that quickly,you know, way way back then.
(04:31):
So like if there was one personhearing a ham, they would just be
dismissed because they could never find eachother. They can never be like oh
I hear it too, or Ihear it too. It's more like,
oh, yeah, somebody used tohear a hum. Like it's more difficult.
In England in this nineteen seventies,there's this phenomenon called the Bristol Hum
and it was a first to belinked to a specific city. A bunch
(04:51):
of articles started coming out in thenewspaper it's called the Sunday Mirror, and
then people started writing in saying thatthey too had heard the same hum and
they thought that it was just themat first, until the editors started getting
all these letters like I hear ittoo, I hear it too, And
they all described it the same way. It was a low rumble that was
(05:13):
heard throughout the city. And atfirst it was just a noise, like
it was just like this a reallyannoying thing, But then they was set
to be linked two people taking theirown vibes because of it. What.
In fact, people talked about itso much that even serious researchers, like
there was one group that wrote fora scientific journal called Applied Acoustics where they
(05:36):
called it quote a particular environmental noisephenomenon which appears to be a cause of
real and severe disturbance to certain people. Serious stuff, right, the just
make it scientifically. Yeah, itwould be pretty disturbing to hear. I
mean, it would be weird tohear ringing in your ear all the time,
and it'd be weird to have justa thing, especially if not everyone
(05:56):
could hear it. Oh, thisgroup took a gat as to what it
was and they said, oh,it's industrial sources you know that are far
away, so it might be true, but was the windsor one in Canada
looking at this case and being like, oh, they said industrial, so
it might be industrial. But thenagain it did stop in Canada once the
(06:19):
US Steel Company things shut down,So all signs point to industrial causes,
right, some deep sounds coming fromlike a warehouse or something. I don't
know if you ever worked at afactory or like a distribution center or like
a place with forklifts, but there'salways heavy things being moved, and those
(06:39):
things really thumped the ground really hard. It's just a boom. They can
just feel that rumble like a constructionsite. Construction sites do this all the
time. Just oh yeah that.But also like trains, you'll hear something
and you're like, what is that? Like I can get that at my
house where I'm like, why doI hear? And it's the train going
by. I can't see the trainwhere I live, but it's definitely the
(07:00):
train, you know. Airports alsohave this noise like this. Yeah,
even to this day, people acrossthe UK report the deep, humming,
rumbling, annoying sound clustered around differentcities like hythe Plymouth and Swansea. And
even though they are studied. Theanswers are always always inconclusive, and I
(07:23):
hate that. I'm just like yourscientists, you guys, like come on,
but again that is an answer.It's like we don't know or we
can't be certain, so here itis. Another interesting theory is that the
noise might be caused by the matingcall of midshipmen fish. What which sound
like louder droning sounds like that.I imagine it more like like what,
(07:51):
yeah, that's way more sexual andthat they can go even for hours.
The scientists here like this fish ishorny fish, like has horns. Wow,
it's that literal huh. Or theymight mean that and be playing on
the word. But yeah, theyended up with those two theories where house
sounds and horny fish. Now thisthing, by the way, they say
(08:13):
it's some mysterious sound because it canbe heard at different areas of the world,
like different places, and everybody reportsit the exact same way. Just
this deep rumbly sound that comes atnight and it's very annoying. Maybe someone
out there has heard the same thing. But can you hear electricity, Michelle?
Can you hear like from a sometimesbut not like regularly? I have
(08:37):
to say. It's like maybe likean old house or something. If I
can do it, and I canusually hear it turn on. If all
of the electricity is turned off,I can hear it turn on, and
then I kind of forget. Soit's kind of like a constant humming little
thing. Okay for me when Iused to plug in things, sometimes I
can hear this, Like if Iplug in my phone, for example,
(08:58):
if I angle my ear just right, I can hear it and I turn
away and I stop hearing it rightAlso against the wall, I see hear
like this, like I turn awaya little bit and my ear just doesn't
get it anymore. But I knowit's there, and I'm pretty sure other
people can hear this too. Butanyway, his thing was turning into a
(09:20):
whole thing, like this global thing. And in this article I found in
The Guardian by Jordan Tannehill talks aboutall these cases, like all these things
that I just talked about too,and they bring up a potential answer that
was mentioned at an Institute of Biologyconference in nineteen seventy three. They're saying
that the jet stream really fast airis rubbing against a slower stream of air
(09:45):
and it's making a huh oh interesting. French scientists got into it as well,
saying that this may be caused byocean waves extending down to the ocean
floor and shaking the earth as theycollide with ridges, which is like,
what is that when I get thatEngland is an island? Pretty much,
but like it'd still be hard tohear. True, quite very true.
(10:07):
I remember like being in a pooland hearing the noises of you, like
tapping on something. Everything sounds weirdand a lot deeper. Oh yeah.
Other theories also mentioned volcanoes, lightningstrikes, submarine communication whales. Although interestingly
enough about the submarine thing, there'sthis method that they used that I had
(10:30):
to look up and I went alittle bit too deep into it more than
I should have. So I'll justmention the name, and that's it microwave
auditory effect, which is, youknow, a way to communicate underwater and
everything. And it was studied bythe Pentagon for use as we guessed it
a weapon. We want to destroythings, kill people, and because of
(10:54):
that we go to some conspiracies.Some people say that it's a government mind
control experiment. They should do abetter job though, Yeah, like with
five G. Like, I don'tknow much about five G and everything.
Some people swear by actually met somebodywho was really into it, that it's
(11:18):
bad for us, that it's harmful, that it's going to cause cancer,
that it's mind controlling you, thatit's emitting these frequencies that only your brain
can catch and you don't know it. And I mean I kind of just
listened for a little bit and yeah, it makes logical sense the way that
using their logic, but yeah,jump into their world for it, and
(11:41):
then yeah it does fix it.Yeah, it's like did you go into
their dimension? And it's like,yeah, you know what, that's true.
But then you're like, okay,some people say that you can use
this thing called the mother Earth frequencyand it could ignite dormant areas of your
brains. So Toyles, New Mexico, was also a place that reported this
(12:01):
hum oh interesting. Scientists from theLos Alamos National Laboratory and the Sandia National
Laboratories went in and there again completelypredictable. Here they're like, we don't
know, we don't know what itis. See and that's kind of far
away from the ocean. Yeah,what is it? Are there industrial areas
(12:24):
around there. I mean there's likelong stretches of just nothing, you know,
like scrub brush and stuff like that. It's like flat, and then
you go into the mountains, it'sreally beautiful. It's one of those landscapes
where you can see rainstorms far off. Yeah, it's weird because, like
you know, the scientists there werelike, we believe you. We want
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to make it clear, we believeyou, but we don't know what it
is. And that's when they figuredit out, like only two percent of
people are said to be able tohear it, yeah, out of the
whole town or whatever, so likethey can they get coming up with that
too to five percent range of peoplecan hear it, and that's about it.
Also, people complain that it onlycomes at night, like you can
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hear this, so what could itbe? And the person who wrote this
article in the Guardian they found alot of information at some of these forums
that people that can hear, whichthey call themselves like hearers or something like
that this I mean just a madeup word, but they all confirmed the
same things. They're like, yeah, I can hear like this, I
heard it hear at night, Ihear it during this time And people say
(13:28):
that yeah, and other people arejust like, I don't know what you're
talking about, Like, this istotally fine. One intriguing theory that I
found. The HUM is said tobe responsible for some recent mass killings in
the US, what like Adam Lanzaa Newton, Connecticut, the school shootings
there in an area that was hometo the Connecticut HUM. Oh. Also,
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Aaron Alexis, who killed twelve peopleat the Washington Naval Yard in twenty
thirteen, had written my ELF weaponor ELF weapon into the stock of his
shotgun ELF ELF extremely low frequency.Oh So I don't know if that's just
the play on words or like ifit's actually linked. But it's a theory
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and people have started digging into it. They're like, is this associated with
this? Is this what it means? Is this a it's a thing.
But anyway, there's so many things, Like scientists have tried it. Acoustic
researchers have gotten into it. They'relike, we need to figure this out.
And they think that it might bean auditory hallucination, people just imagining
a HUM. Scientists love to argue, but like they argue scientifically. And
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this other guy, David Deming fromthe University of Oklahoma was like, there's
cases of mass illusion, like thewitch hunts. Yeah. I mean,
look, humans go crazy every couplehundred years, you know, multiple times
every hundred years. But the humI don't know. I don't know.
I think I believe that people arehearing it. I believe them too.
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I'm like, you can hear something. I believe you can hear something.
I can't hear it. There's peoplethat have left their homes. They're like,
I'm getting out of the city.They leave and then they stop hearing
it. So that gives you thatidea where it's like, okay, might
be a location thing, like it'snot all in your head. But like
you said earlier about tinitis or tinitis, yeah, that one's a really high
frequency tone, yeah right, butthis one's like low. Oh interesting,
(15:28):
you know, it's like this lowlow, low thing. So it's it's
different. Another theory is that peoplethat are just really sensitive with their hearing,
like they have very sensitive ears,then they can hear between twenty and
one hundred hertz. I think thatthere's just some people that have that type
of hear Yeah, but if thereis sensitive hearing, then what are they
(15:52):
hearing the vibration of the planet orsomething I don't know. And that's the
last theory that there that's like probablythe most accepted, widely accepted ones is
that once we started getting electricity cables, all this stuff, generators and everything,
the earth or I guess cities startedgetting this natural sounding thing that blended
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in with the nature I guess withlike regular sounds that we hear, wind
and everything that is this constant thatit's just there all the time, and
only some of us can hear becausewe pay attention to it. We can.
We have that sensitive ear to catchit. But that's what it might
be just electricity from the modern world, which I mean, like you do
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notice like if you've ever been througha power out, it just like everything
goes off and it's like dead quiet, and then when everything comes back on,
you'll hear that woosh and then it'snot as quiet as it was.
There's something there even if you're nothearing it, you know, like there's
energy is there now either way,like this is it's I mean, if
you look it up, the humis like a constant thing that it's just
(16:57):
like people trying to figure it out. They're trying to see what it is.
Nobody knows affecting all these people allover the world. Like, let's
say it was electricity. Why can'tthey just compare frequencies out in the middle
of nowhere and then come back andsee if that's just being part of the
city. Can they get closer tothis sound? Yeah? They I don't
know. Why can't we figure thisout? Shouldn't we be able to at
(17:19):
this point? I mean, wecan tell the weather, like to see
hour by hour when it's gonna rainand when it's gonna stop. We could
probably get closer to this sound andbe like, oh, this is where
it's coming from. Well, Ithink it's because it's only affecting a few
people and driving them insane, butit's not affecting masses. I think you're
right, Like I think, untilwe get like a president that can hear
(17:41):
it anyway, One thing is forsure. This thing sounds annoying. Do
you hear the hum? Oh?I mean I don't, but I sympathize
for anyone who does. But anyway, what are we gonna talk about next
week? I don't know, butI think it'll be a surprise scary.
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