Taos Hum

[Cordelia]

[quote="Sweejak "I don't think it's the Taos Hum, but I'm not sure it's 'only' Tinitus either.[/quote]

I don't think anyone can predict or diagnose how high tech altitude and atmospheric programs/projects will impact people (and animals). Hearing 'The Hum' could be just one manifestation.

[alwyn]

I'm in NorCal, and I hear the hum alot at night...like a big diesel genie, but most of my neighbors are solar..

[n0x23]

I don't think anyone can predict or diagnose how high tech altitude and atmospheric programs/projects will impact people (and animals). Hearing 'The Hum' could be just one manifestation.

Are you talking about "Chemtrails"?

[Cordelia]

^^Regarding sound, I wasn't thinking of chemtrails, though they're prevalent in the skies where I live, I doubt they'd produce an audible atmospheric hum. On the other hand, of course, it's suspected that chemtrail composition can lead to many symptoms and illnesses. http://www.mayanmajix.com/art2152.html

[n0x23]

Regarding sound, I wasn't thinking of chemtrails, though they're prevalent in the skies where I live, I doubt they'd produce an audible atmospheric hum. On the other hand, of course, it's suspected that chemtrail composition can lead to many symptoms and illnesses. http://www.mayanmajix.com/art2152.html

Actually I figured you were talking about HAARP, but I wanted to interject Chemtrails into the conversation.

I wouldn't think that the Chemtrails are responsible for the Hum, since, I think I remember hearing about the Hum long before seeing or hearing about any Chemtrails.

I do wonder about Chemtrails and it components being responsible for a multitude of health problems, including the unexplained ringing ears.

The Hum, I suspect, might be a naturally occurring phenomenon, or an advanced version of communications, like the underground loop antennas and underwater submarine cables from WWII.

[Cordelia]

Yes, I was thinking HAARP (and GPS, microwaves, electromagnetic weapons, satellites, towers, control grids, transmitters, marketed by the USA, Russia, China, etc....who can guess how many systems and players are fighting with each other to control people, the weather, planets or the stock market? I sure can't).

But I don't think 'The Hum' is a natural phenomena. It sounds too mechanical, like an engine or a combine. And ghostly, even, as something becomes when it's heard day after day, year after year....(so maybe the submarine cables from WWII wouldn't be too far a stretch).

[DeltaDawn]

Wow!!!!...oh what a relief???....nah wrong phrasing, but how odd others hear the same 'hum'. To me it sounds like 'crickets' or 'cicadas' but a little louder. Often it keeps me awake, but I also hear the ringing that can actually interfere with what I'm suppose to hear. Often I have to ask, "Say again please" because I actually can't hear over the ringing.

Experience has shown me that the 'hum' becomes Much louder around some military bases and in fact I was offered a 'disability' (stupid in my younger days & didn't take it) for a broken ear drum that I suspect is to 'cover' the ringing. So I'd go for it....except both ears ring and I can actually hear out of the ear, they said was bad??? Too much to think about!!!!
Again I say, how odd that soo many of us have the same symtoms!!!....hmmmmmmm

[Wilbur Whatley]

I live in rural Maryland, 40 miles northwest of Baltimore. Five years ago I used to live in a fairly rural part of Montgomery County, Maryland, 30 miles NW of Washington.

For about the last 10 years, every once in awhile, I guess about two or three times a week, I'm transfixed by the impression that I'm in the middle of a high-intensity electromagnetic pulse of some kind, which usually lasts for about one or two very long MINUTES. It is terrifying. I hear a very very loud pitched whine, and I fear that my heart is going to stop from electronic interference. It feels very threatening.

My hearing is more sensitive than my wife's, and a few times I've asked her about this in the middle of one of these episodes, and she never detects it.

In both homes, this one and the last one, we're on a direct line between the White House and the "secret" presidential compound at Camp David in Thurmont, Maryland (Frederick County about 10 miles from my current house). I've long suspected it is some kind of military communication between the White House and Camp David. But I don't know how to test this.

[monster]

I'm in NorCal, and I hear the hum alot at night...like a big diesel genie, but most of my neighbors are solar..

Yes! I've heard it too. Recurs every four months.

[Cordelia]

www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/7074/ In addition to this article, I remember reading elsewhere that hearers of the (diesel engine sounding) 'Hum' are more often women, and they first begin to hear it in their early 50's. This is true for me and I wonder what the correlation to age and sex could be. I suspect there's a lot 'out there', bombarding us all subliminally and otherwise, that most of us are never aware of.

I live in rural Maryland, 40 miles northwest of Baltimore. Five years ago I used to live in a fairly rural part of Montgomery County, Maryland, 30 miles NW of Washington.

For about the last 10 years, every once in awhile, I guess about two or three times a week, I'm transfixed by the impression that I'm in the middle of a high-intensity electromagnetic pulse of some kind, which usually lasts for about one or two very long MINUTES. It is terrifying. I hear a very very loud pitched whine, and I fear that my heart is going to stop from electronic interference. It feels very threatening.

My hearing is more sensitive than my wife's, and a few times I've asked her about this in the middle of one of these episodes, and she never detects it.

In both homes, this one and the last one, we're on a direct line between the White House and the "secret" presidential compound at Camp David in Thurmont, Maryland (Frederick County about 10 miles from my current house). I've long suspected it is some kind of military communication between the White House and Camp David. But I don't know how to test this.

Along with your location, it's fascinating (and terrifying) that two people have such a different experience when exposed to the same environmental phenomena. Over the years, I've never encountered anybody else in my area who hears the hum. I called the editor of the local newspaper, thinking he might know of other people hearing it and be interested in doing a story, but he didn't and wasn't.

[Wombaticus Rex]

Has anyone done a microphone scan on this? There's simple ways to locate and move towards the source of....any sound.

It's an important first step towards ruling out external sources, then you can start with the paranoia...because then you know you're dealing with the more disturbing end of the spectrum. Where explanations get complicated and creepy.

[n0x23]

It's an important first step towards ruling out external sources, then you can start with the paranoia...because then you know you're dealing with the more disturbing end of the spectrum. Where explanations get complicated and creepy.

Are you implying that the Hum and the ringing may be psychosomatic?

[Cordelia]

[quote="Wombaticus Rex"]Has anyone done a microphone scan on this? There's simple ways to locate and move towards the source of....any sound.quote]

It's my understanding that some scientists and sound engineers have tried but the hum can't be picked up by a microphone or recorded.

This from the Taos Hum website:

"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."
Following from the website (an old article, but I don't think things have changed since then; I'd be interested if anyone finds something different.)

http://amasci.com/hum/info.txt

From the article linked above:

"I assisted a group of scientists and technicians
from various laboratories, (Sandia, Los Alamos, Phillips Air Force Lab,
Univ. of NM) last May 1993 when we tried to capture the hum on tape. We
were unsuccessful even though we were using rather sophisticated equipment
and covered electromagnetic, magnetic, audio, geologic, and radio
frequency spectrums from about 5 HZ on out to about 25 Gigahertz. We used
geophones, laboratory microphones, a special "Big Ear" 15" speaker
designed to be used as a microphone for low frequency sound and spent the
wee hours trying to find something on our instrumentation to account for
the "hum".

[Wombaticus Rex]

I'm saying that you absolutely need to start with ruling out internal causes by verifying an external source. Limitations of the microphone might be an issue, I know my friends who do seismic and geological assessments for a living use very specialized equipment and microphones that are built to pick up sub-sonic frequencies.

The thing about sub-sonic frequencies is that a powerful signal will have physical overtones (harmonics) that might be in the audible range, or weirder yet, might create audible/tangible effects inside of humans in the area.

I can just picture a bunch of "paranormal researchers" standing around with a Shure SM-57 running into a laptop and saying "my god, it's not even showing up on the mic!" (And yes, I did read the quote above this post, and I'd say if true that points to the "overtones inside the body" explanation.)

Hopefully someone with some background knowledge and tech access has looked into this. Hopefully they write about it.

[ShinShinKid]

Wilbur, I've experienced exactly what you have, almost like someone in the far off distance powering on a computer, or a TV, or something...
It resembles a ringing, but I've had enough surgeries on my right ear to know the difference between my own and external signals.
I live near an Air Force Base, so my inclination is a VERY large RADAR array being powered on or off. It doesn't last long, just long enough to know that I am hearing something.