It is a mysterious sound on the very edge of perception that has driven thousands of people around the world to distraction.
09 Jun 2011
Now a tiny English village is the latest community to claim to be being hit by the phenomenon known as "the hum".
Residents of Woodland, in County Durham, claim that every night a noise permeates the air similar to the throb of a car engine.
It is sometimes so strong that it even shakes the bed of one of the householders.
But no matter how hard they look, the community cannot find the source of the problem and, at their wits end, have called in the council to investigate.
The 300-strong population is the latest around the world to be hit by the rumble which has in the past led to wild conspiracy theories blaming it on UFOs, government experiments and abandoned mine shafts.
It is so widespread that it has even featured on the television show The X Files.Its most famous occurrence was in Bristol in the 1970s when more than a thousand people complained of the consistent drone causing nosebleeds, sleeplessness and headaches.
It vanished as mysteriously as it arrived and was never explained.
Residents of Woodland, a community consisting of one main street surrounded by farmland, claims their version of "the hum" is constant from midnight until 4am every night and stops them sleeping.
There are no pylons, factories or abandoned mines nearby.
The noise started about two months ago and has been plaguing the isolated village every day since.
Marylin Grech, 57, a retired store detective, said: "In certain areas of the house you can hear it more loudly. It is definitely from outside, it's in the air, all around, very faint.
"It vibrates through the house. We've turned all the electricity off in the house and we can still hear it, so it's not that.
"Sometimes we'll be in bed and it vibrates right through our bed, like a throbbing.
"It's not tinnitus, that's a high pitched sound and this is very low. If I put my fingers in my ears it stops, so I know it's not in my head.
"At 4am it's so clear, because we live in such an isolated place with no traffic, it's heaven.
"But it leaves a buzzing in your head for the rest of the day."
Gary Hutchinson, an environmental protection manager at Durham County Council, said: "I can confirm that we received a call regarding a humming sound in the Woodland area earlier on June 1 and we will now make further enquiries before deciding what action we will take."
WINDSOR, Ontario—Last month, Bob Dechert, a senior aide to Canada's foreign minister, was dispatched to Detroit with an important diplomatic mission: To stop a highly annoying noise.
The so-called Windsor hum, described as a low-frequency rumbling sound, has rattled windows and knocked objects off shelves in this border community just across the Detroit River from the Motor City. Locals have said it sounds like a large diesel truck idling, a loud boom box or the bass vocals of Barry White.
Windsor residents have blamed the hum for causing illness, whipping dogs into frenzies, keeping cats housebound and sending goldfish to the surface in backyard ponds. Many have resorted to switching on their furnace fan all season to drown out the noise.
Even weirder, Americans can't seem to hear it. Canadians find that suspicious—especially since their research suggests the hum is coming from the Yankees' side—and accuse U.S. officials of staying silent over the noise.
A strange hum on the U.S./Canadian border has Windsor, Ontario residents pointing the finger at an industrialized wasteland on the southern fringe of Detroit. WSJ's Alistair McDonald reports.
"The government of Canada takes this issue seriously," Mr. Dechert said after his recent fact-finding trip, which included a visit to a heavily industrialized area on the American side of the river that some Canadian scientists believe is to blame for the hum.
Unexplained noises have tormented city dwellers for centuries. Residents west of Green Bay, Wis., have been trying to identify an occasional loud boom that they say sounds like a cannon blast—geologists have said earthquakes made the noise. Locals in upstate New York and other places have described similar episodes.
But few such cases have become international diplomatic incidents.
After three months of seismic studies conducted by Canada's natural resources department, scientists said the noise was likely coming from Zug Island, a nearly 600-acre man-made island on the Michigan side of the Detroit River. The coal-blackened industrial zone is dominated by steel mills, including facilities operated by U.S. Steel Corp. and others whose blast furnaces belch out steam and flames.
The area is off-limits to the general public and surrounded by wire fences, with the only access via a guarded gate. A spokeswoman for U.S. Steel didn't respond to requests for comment.
The sound has been plaguing Windsor residents on and off for two years. Last May, a particularly loud eruption shook Windsor resident David Robins as he watched the National Basketball Association playoffs. The room began to vibrate with a loud throbbing noise.
Mr. Robins hit mute, fearing he had gone overboard on volume. But the noise persisted. Stepping outside, Mr. Robins said he found the "entire neighborhood pulsating."
"To be honest, I was scared," he said.
BOB DECHERT
Hundreds of other sleep-deprived locals have demanded action from politicians in Windsor and Ottawa.
Locals blamed earthquakes, local salt mines, an underground river and wind turbines in the past. But Canada's seismic study last summer narrowed the likely source down to approximately 250 acres in the vicinity of Zug Island.
American officials say they aren't so sure.
"It may not be actually emanating from Michigan," said Hansen Clarke, the U.S. Representative for the East Detroit congressional district that includes Zug.
Michael D. Bowdler, the mayor of River Rouge, Michigan, the municipality with authority over Zug, said his cash-strapped government doesn't have funds to investigate further. Mr. Bowdler suggests the city of Windsor pay for a survey that could isolate the noise to its exact location.
American officials contend there haven't been complaints on the U.S. side of the border. Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality looked last year at whether the companies at Zug started up any new machinery in the past two years that might be causing the noise and found nothing.
"The only place I am hearing noise from is Canada—from politicians complaining," Mr. Bowdler said.
Mr. Dechert, Canada's parliamentary secretary to the minister of foreign affairs, concedes the source may not be Zug Island, given there are a "number of operations" in the vicinity that could be responsible. But he wants his U.S. counterparts to investigate further to help quiet down the border ruckus.
"There is definitely something going on that's affecting people on the Canadian side of the river," he said.
Canadian diplomats formally raised the issue with the U.S. Department of State last September. They took up the cause again at a meeting on Thursday. A State Department spokesman declined to comment on the meeting.
"We do sympathize with the plight of those affected but, unfortunately, the federal government doesn't have regulatory authority over noise pollution," the spokesman said.
Canadian authorities have also hoped the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would investigate. But a spokesman for the EPA said it doesn't have the authority to assist.
If U.S. officials don't help find a solution, "there will be a lot of upset people," said Brian Masse, a Canadian New Democratic Party member of parliament, whose Windsor constituency sits across the river from Zug Island.
Studying the hum, much less its origin, is challenging. It is difficult to capture the mainly nocturnal sound on tape, since it doesn't hum all the time.
During a recent visit to Windsor by a Wall Street Journal reporter, Windsor resident Gary Grosse played several recordings he said came from the noise, which modulated from metallic grating to a pulsing beat.
On a visit to the area around Zug Island, a fainter version of similar sounds was audible. But Americans nearby said they still can't hear it.
Fishing under the shadow of some of the large mounds of coal that fringe Zug Island, Samson Jenkins says that in 20 trips here he has never heard a noise like that described in Windsor.
"And they say they can hear it all the way in Canada?" said the 45-year-old maintenance worker. "No way."
Nearby, an industrial chimney belched out a twist of sulfurous-smelling smoke. Mr. Jenkins joked the only noise pollution he has heard of late is Canadian singer Celine Dion.
In Windsor, nobody's laughing.
In January 2011, Sonya Skillings's nocturnal baby-feeding sessions were disturbed by what she said sounded like an underground subway beneath the house. Over a year on, it has become so loud sometimes she worries the windows will blow out.
"I just want to be in my rocking chair with my baby asleep on top of me," she said. But "all I can hear is 'vrump, vrump, vrump.' "
A version of this article appeared May 1, 2012, on page A1 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Canadians Make a Racket Over Mysterious 'Windsor Hum'.
During
the second half of 2011, a lot of people all over the planet started
reporting hearing really strange noises coming from the sky. In some
instances the noises produced a loud rumbling such as a train, a
thunderstorm or the slamming of a heavy door would make. In other
instances, the noises sounded more like “groaning”. In yet other
instances the noises sounded almost as if a trumpet was playing. Dozens
of videos went up on YouTube purporting to document this phenomenon,
but the truth is that you can fake almost anything on a YouTube video
and many dismissed these strange “strange sounds” as an Internet hoax.
However, now entire towns in the northern part of the United States are
hearing strange noises in the sky and the mainstream media is reporting
on it. In fact, one U.S. town is planning to spend thousands of dollars
to hire an engineering firm to investigate where these strange sounds
are coming from. At this point a lot of theories about these strange
noises are being floated, but so far scientists have not been able to
give us a definitive explanation for the source of these strange
noises. So exactly what in the world is going on?
This phenomenon made national news
again this week because of what has been going on in Clintonville,
Wisconsin. Hundreds of residents of Clintonville reported hearing
incredibly loud noises coming from the sky for several nights in a row.
Even CBS News is reporting on what is happening in Clintonville….
Since Sunday, the residents have been disturbed by “booming” noises loud enough to wake them from their sleep.
Last night, hundreds of people attended a public meeting to get to the bottom of booms. But they aren’t any closer to the truth.
One resident told CBS News, “The last few days we’ve been having (a) booming shaking noise.”
Another
resident said, “(For) a lot of people the house is rattling, you can
feel the ground rattling, and it’s booming all the time. It’s kind of
like, what’s going on? You don’t know what’s happening.”
So what is causing these noises that are so loud that even the ground is shaking?
According to Fox News, the town has investigated every possible explanation that they can think of for these strange noises….
City
officials say they have investigated every possible human cause. They
checked water, sewer and gas lines, contacted the military about any
exercises in the area, reviewed permits for mining explosives and
inspected a dam next to City Hall. They even tested methane levels at
the landfill in case the gas was spontaneously exploding.
So far no explanation has been found.
So Clintonville has decided to spend $7,000 to hire an engineering firm
to investigate the cause of these strange noises.
According to geologists, the town does
not sit on any fault lines and the ground beneath the town is very
solid. Some geologists are claiming that “micro-quakes” could have been responsible, but others find this explanation to be very unsatisfying.
For many town residents, solving the
mystery is not as important as getting these strange noises to stop so
that they can get some sleep.
The following comes from the recent Fox News article mentioned above….
“My
husband thought it was cool, but I don’t think so. This is not a joke,”
said Jolene Van Beek, who awoke early Sunday to a loud boom that shook
her house. “I don’t know what it is, but I just want it to stop.”
But Clintonville is not the only town in Wisconsin where strange sounds are being reported.
Mysterious noises are also being reported in a town called Montello which is 80 miles away from Clintonville.
Posted below is a local news report that discusses the strange noises that are being reported in Clintonville and Montello….
Clintonville Town Hall Meeting on the Strange Noises, Booms and Shaking - March 21, 2012
*Update* Clintonville, Wisconsin: More Booms and Rumbling + Eyewitness - March 21st 2012
Third Night of Mysterious Booms in Clintonville
These strange sounds have made the mainstream news up in Canada as well.
Recently, strange noises caused such a violent shaking that they actually brought down a barn on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
Geologists say that no earthquake occurred at the time that the barn collapsed.
So what caused the barn to collapse?
That is a very good question.
And this is not just a North American phenomenon.
If you go on to YouTube and you do a
search for “strange sounds” or “strange noises” you will find dozens of
videos from all over the world. Yes, there are definitely a few videos
that appear to be hoaxes, but is that true with all of them?
The evidence for this phenomenon is
mounting and it is getting really hard to deny that there really are
large numbers people all over the globe that swear that they are hearing
really strange sounds coming from the sky.
So exactly what in the world is going on?
Well, there are a lot of theories floating around on the Internet. The following are some of the most prominent theories about
what is causing these strange noises: electromagnetic noise,
earthquakes, “fracking”, rock bursts, venting of high-pressure gas that
has been trapped underground, meteor showers, HAARP or directed energy
weapons, and some believe that all of this is just a giant publicity
stunt.
Perhaps the biggest reason why these
strange noises have so many people alarmed is because humans generally
have a great fear of the unknown.
If the cause of these strange noises is revealed, the hysteria will die down.
But if these strange noises continue
(or even become more intense) and there continues to be no scientific
explanation for them, then the hysteria may turn into full-blown panic.
What is clear is that our planet is becoming increasingly unstable. As I have documented previously, earthquakes are becoming more frequent and more powerful. The “Ring of Fire” is becoming a lot more active and we have been seeing a disturbing amount of volcanic activity lately.
So could earth changes have anything to do with these strange noises?
We just don’t know at this point.
Most of the time when I write an article I like to have some answers. But I do not know what is causing these strange sounds.
So what do you think about these strange noises?
Do you believe that you know why they are happening?
Have you heard strange sounds coming from the sky where you live?
No Explanation for Mysterious ‘Lake Music’ Reported by Many Yellowstone Visitors (BELOW)
There are several locations around the world
known for their iconic sounds. Most
famous are the hums of Taos, Bristol, and Bondi. Now comes the news that
America's most famous
national park is haunted by ethereal bells around its namesake lake.
Rarely mentioned yet known for years, the elusive source of these unique
sounds has yet to be teased out by anyone. Halfway across
the globe a Mysterious Night Time Noise Plagues Derry.(BELOW) Even
more reports are popping up about strange noises in the night sky with
no clear answers. Authorities are keeping mum and
playing dumb as civilians cover their ears hoping to catch, at least,
twenty out of forty winks. Could Big Brother be behind the Unexplained Sounds?
(BELOW) Nick
Redfern quotes Linda Howe on Coast to Coast speculating that the Defense
Department may be trying to direct sound waves directly into people's
minds, a topic Redfern wondered about himself in his book Final Events.
No explanation for mysterious ‘lake music’ reported by many Yellowstone visitors
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Some
Yellowstone National Park visitors have reported hearing odd sounds in
the skies above Yellowstone Lake on clear days in the early mornings.
(Ruffin Prevost/Yellowstone Gate)
By Ruffin Prevost
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Yellowstone Lake and the rugged
backcountry that surrounds it is a place where millions go seeking
solitude and silence. Yet it in a well-documented but rarely discussed
phenomenon, some visitors to the Lake area have experienced remarkable
celestial sounds of unknown and unexplained origin.
“They resemble the ringing of telegraph wires or the humming of a
swarm of bees, beginning softly in the distance, growing rapidly plainer
until directly overhead, and then fading as rapidly in the opposite
direction,” wrote Hiram M. Chittenden in 1895 in his book, “The Yellowstone National Park.”
Chittenden’s description is one of several in the historical record —
as well as many more from popular anecdotal accounts — of strange
sounds or “lake music” coming from the skies around Yellowstone Lake and
Shoshone lake.
Hiram
M. Chittenden built roads and bridges in Yellowstone National Park and
wrote a book for visitors called "The Yellowstone National Park."
Chittenden was an accomplished engineer with rigorous scientific
discipline who built roads and bridges in the park, as well as locks in
Seattle’s Lake Washington Ship Canal. He was not given to idle
speculation or unsubstantiated gossip about seemingly magical events.
But he is hardly the only — or even the first — prominent Yellowstone
visitor to write about the strange and unexplained lake sounds.
Edwin Linton, a professor of biology at Washington and Jefferson
College and a specialist in marine parasites was working in Yellowstone
in the summer of 1890 as part of a project for the U.S. Fish Commission.
Linton, his colleagues and his guides heard the mysterious sounds more
than once during that trip, and he drew from his own diary entries when
he wrote an account of the odd experience for the Nov. 3, 1893 edition of the prestigious journal Science.
“On the following morning, we heard the sound very plainly,” Linton
wrote. “It appeared to begin directly overhead and to pass off across
the sky, growing fainter and fainter towards the southwest. It appeared
to be a rather indefinite, reverberating sound, characterized by a
slight metallic resonance.”
Linton and others have described the sounds as “harp-like” or similar
to human voices or the sound of metal cables crashing against each
other, but no satisfactory explanation has yet been offered for their
origin.
Lee Whittlesey, historian at Yellowstone Park and a longtime resident
of the region, said that the Yellowstone Lake sounds aren’t often
discussed by park insiders.
“There are a number of pieces written about it, but it’s often deeply buried in the literature,” he said.
Despite how far-fetched the phenomenon sounds, Whittlesey said he’s
confident the sounds have existed and the historical accounts about them
are credible.
“It has been reported by too many people for it to be any kind of Bigfoot thing or something like that,” he said.
Respected scientists and prominent park figures have reported hearing
the sounds, and accounts have appeared in books, journals and
newspapers, Whittlesey said, although the last new written report may
have been as far back as the 1930s.
Typically, accounts of the sounds state that they take place at or
near Yellowstone Lake or Shoshone Lake on a clear day when there is
little or no wind and the waters are still, usually in the morning.
Frank
Bradley, in tent, relaxes with his colleagues in Yellowstone National
Park during an 1872 geological expedition. Bradley reported hearing
strange sounds along the shore of Yellowstone Lake.
Geologist Frank H. Bradley explored and documented Yellowstone’s
natural wonders as a member of the Hayden Expeditions, and wrote in 1873
about hearing odd sounds along the shore of Yellowstone Lake.
“While getting breakfast, we heard every few moments a curious sound,
between a whistle and a hoarse whine, whose locality and character we
could not at first determine, though we were inclined to refer it to
water-fowl on the other side of the lake,” Bradley wrote in his account of the geologic survey of the area.
“I have listened for it because I found it so interesting,” said
Whittlesey, who has lived and worked around Yellowstone for more than 35
years.
“I first learned of it in the early 70s, and over the years kept
running into references to it here and there,” he said. “So I listened
for it any time I was camped in the backcountry anywhere near
Yellowstone Lake or Shoshone Lake, and I never have heard it.”
Terry Dolan, a tour guide based in Cody, Wyo, said he has not only
never heard the sounds, but was not familiar with details of the
historical accounts of them.
There have been various explanations proposed for the sounds, ranging
from fanciful speculation to educated guesses, often centered around
the park’s unique geology.
An August 1930 article in Popular Science magazine cited “mild
earthquakes, their sounds possibly magnified in underground caverns like
sound boxes” as one potential explanation.
The article also referenced a theory put forward by F. C. Marvin,
chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau, who based his ideas on observations by
Glen Jefferson, a Yellowstone meteorologist.
Marvin noted that temperature inversions are not uncommon above
Yellowstone Lake, where warmer air above the lake sits atop cooler air
near the water’s surface.
He posited that such inversions “may alter the normal way that the
air conducts sound,” the article states. “It might produce sound
mirages, in which distant noises of geysers, birds or steamboats might
appear to come from near at hand.”
A
frozen horizon hangs in the far distance as cloudy skies loom over
frozen Yellowstone Lake. At least one scientists believes temperature
inversions over the lake may explain why some Yellowstone National Park
visitors hear odd sounds there.
Other theories are referenced dismissively by Stephen Forbes, of the
Illinois State Natural History Survey, who wrote about hearing the lake
sounds while on the same expedition as Linton.
“No scientific explanation of this really bewitching phenomenon has
ever been published, although it has been several times referred to by
travelers, who have ventured various crude guesses at its cause, varying
from that commonest catch-all of the ignorant, ‘electricity,’ to the
whistling of the wings of ducks and the noise of Steamboat Geyser,”
Forbes wrote. “It seems to me to belong to the class of aerial echoes,
but even on that supposition I cannot account for the origin of the
sound.”
If the sounds are related to the park’s geology, they come and go
along with thermal features like geysers or hot springs, which wax and
wane over years or even decades depending on a complex set of natural
factors.
It’s possible that some people in recent years have heard the sound
but kept mum about it for fear of sounding foolish or being ridiculed,
Whittlesey said, but for whatever reason, the lake sounds are not a
topic most guides discuss with visitors.
“I was a tour guide and a ranger naturalist, and I don’t remember
ever using it in a program,” Whittlesey said. “It’s just not something
that is well known among Yellowstone interpreters or Yellowstone tour
guides.”
Despite the lack of any recently documented lake sounds and the lack
of a solid explanation for them, Whittlesey is sure the sounds existed
as described.
“I feel quite certain these people all heard what they wrote about,” he said.
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Published on Wednesday 22 February 2012 17:35
People in Derry are being plagued by a mysterious noise coming from the air, it has been claimed.
SDLP MLA Pat Ramsey says scores of
people are being kept awake by unexplained activity in the night sky -
and the noise it creates.
He says if it is caused by police or military activity then the authorities must offer an explanation.
“I
have received a number of calls from concerned residents who have been
unsettled and whose sleeping pattern is being affected by what can only
be described as a relentless and disturbing buzzing noise in the Derry
sky over recent days,” he says.
“There has been an issue
regarding the use of the PSNI Helicopter that has been frequently
deployed which has caused annoyance, and I have been in contact with the
Police Air Support Unit to ascertain some information in respect of the
deployment of the helicopter.
“That having been said, the
helicopter has not been visible in recent days when this noise has been
reported, and is obviously operating at a high altitude.
“If
the PSNI confirm they are not responsible for the noise, then it is
only logical, given enquiries that I have carried out, that the British
Army are responsible for the operation of whatever device is causing
grief to my constituents. I intend to write to the Secretary of State
to confirm if this is indeed the case, as the presence of the noise is
causing considerable anxiety.”
He added:”We need answers to
these important questions and I do intend to continue to pursue
statutory agencies to find out who is responsible.”
In three half-hour segments, investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe
discussed the large number of strange and unexplained horn-like sounds
filling the air since March 2011 and possible causes. The phenomenon
surfaced after a number of videos were uploaded on YouTube from such
divergent places as Norway, Costa Rica, Tennessee and Kiev, Ukraine (BELOW).
Recently, Linda interviewed two witnesses in Tennessee, who in separate
locations, heard the Kiev-like horn sounds on January 18-19, 2012. One
of the witnesses, retired real estate agent Cindy Smith was packing her
car for a trip when the air was filled with the Kiev horn sounds coming
from every direction. The strange sounds lasted about 30 seconds and
left Cindy frightened, wanting to know what happened.
A woman inTopeka, Kansas (BELOW) told Linda she was awakened on September 3,
2011 at her Perry Lake vacation home by the sound of "a television
turned on in the distance with voices we could not make out." Yet, as
she and her husband discovered, no television was on in their home when
the sounds were heard. (BELOW). In January 2012, an Azerbaijan geophysicist named Elchin Khalilov released an article
in which he suggested the strange sounds people are hearing are related
to "acoustic-gravity waves caused by powerful solar flares and plasma
emissions from the sun." However, when Linda interviewed NASA solar
physicist David Hathaway he doubted that solar activity could be
connected with the sounds. Read her full interview with him.
Linda raised an interesting hypothesis-- "what if some of the strange
sounds heard around the world...were part of an American government test
of what some have called 'voice of God' weapons?" Around the time of
9-11, there were rumors that the Defense Dept. wanted to try sending
directed sound waves into the minds of Middle East terrorists, she
noted. Linda also presented a report
on the increased number of dolphins stranded and dying in Cape Cod
& the New Jersey shore since January 2012. She spoke with marine
biologist Trevor Spradlin who found the incidents to be unprecedented
and perplexing.
“Like An Old TV Playing in the Distance,”
September 3, 2011, 3 AM Central,
Lake Perry, Kansas
Perry Lake is about 30 miles northeast of downtown Topeka, Kansas.
Topeka, Kansas, is upper left red circle. Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee,
are lower right red circles.
One Kansas couple picked out
the Norway video as the closest they could come to what sounded to them
like a “muffled TV set in the distance.” The sound woke them up on
September 3rd, 2011. Maura Dingman, the wife, sent me an email about
their strange experience.
Maura is 54-years-old and has lived in the Topeka, Kansas, region all
her life. Her husband, Bud, is 64, and the couple have made a living
selling properties and restoring houses. At the end of 2010, they
purchased a summer house at Perry Lake that is about 30 miles northeast
of their Topeka home. That’s where they were Labor Day weekend on
September 3rd, 2011, when Maura was the first awakened around 3 AM by a
very strange sound that went on for at least fifteen minutes.
Maura Dingman, 54, Topeka, Kansas about Labor Day weekend strange sound at Perry Lake vacation home:
“What I first was hearing I thought was the television on upstairs - and not just on, but loud. But it wasn't the TV.
Typically when I'm downstairs, I don't hear the television at all
actually - just never usually that loud and so that was kind of weird,
but I thought, ‘Did it come on on its own?’ I thought, ‘Well, I've got
to get up and let the dogs out, but first I'm going to go up and see why
the television is on! (laughs)’
So I go upstairs and I get up there and it's not that at all (TV is
off). And I'm baffled. After I discovered it wasn't TV, I went back
downstairs because we have sliding doors out of the bedroom into a
little fenced area for the dogs. And when I got outside, I heard the
noise in a clearer way and I could not tell where it was coming from. It
was just strange - echoey - and when I say echoey - it just had a kind
of everywhere quality to it. It made me think of the echo of a muffled
television.
I kept trying to tell myself, ‘Someone has a window open and there's a
TV on, but gosh, it's loud!’ You know, in this setting we all have at
least a half acre of ground the way the houses are situated, so my
closest neighbor is up the hill a bit and all their lights were out. I
don't know what the sound was except to say that it was strange!
So I sat there for a good ten or fifteen minutes trying to - it just
really affected me because it was an odd sound. (laughs) It was an
echoey somewhat mechanical sound, which television is. You just hear
that quality, that electronic waaaa waaa type of a sound.
THIS WAS A SOUND THAT WAS CHANGING THE WAY VOICES WOULD CHANGE IF YOU WERE HEARING A TV IN A BACKGROUND?
I couldn't make anything out, you know? But yet I kept trying to
think that it was voices. (Maura mimics again). You know, it sounded
like television and I know this is going to sound strange, but at the
time I kept thinking like old television - like childhood television
sounds. It haunted me because it was such a strange event.
Maura's Husband Woke Up, Too,
and Thought TV Was On
And to go on, I stayed out and listened and then finally went back in
and my husband was asleep. As it turned out the next morning, I'm
telling him about this and he says, ‘'Well, I heard that, too, and I
went upstairs.’ And this is a man who is deaf in his left ear and was
sleeping on his good ear. Typically when that is happening, if the phone
rings by his bed or even if the alarm goes off in the morning, he never
hears it. I have to wake him up. So, that was strange.
SO HOW DID HE HEAR THE SOUND?
I know! (laughs) With him, once he can turn that good ear, he said he
heard the sound and thought also that it was television and so he went
upstairs to find that our television was not on. It was a strange experience at 3 AM in the morning!
Maura's Nephew in Los Angeles
Heard Kiev-Type Sound
And I didn't know anything about all this sound stuff around the
world at the time until December 2011 when my nephew from California,
who I had just hooked up with Facebook like a week before. He posted
after - I think it was December 1, 2011, a little after 1 AM. And he
woke up to high winds and went outside and heard these strange sounds,
trumpet sounds, in the night.
November 30 to December 3, 2011, powerful Santa Ana winds gusting
near 100 mph knocked over trees in the Los Angeles, California region,
including
this Redlands home on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. IPhone image by Brian Weed.
He did not record and he posted on Facebook the next morning. A bunch
of his friends said, 'Oh, I heard that, too!' He's young, like
23-years-old. He linked it to this Kiev video, so that really caught my
attention - the trumpet sounds that people have been experiencing in
different places. He linked it to this Kiev video that so many people
have seen.
And that was my first time to see that. And in that process as
YouTube does, it made other suggestions including this video from Norway
(September 23, 2011) and that's when I found something that really was
very similar to what I experienced that night. And my husband agreed
that it sounded a lot like what he thought he heard as well. But the
point that it reminded me was about 34 seconds into the video and
it kind of almost sounds like muffled voices. And I would love an
explanation as I'm sure everybody would!
LET ME ASK YOU SOMETHING, MAURA. WHEN I HEAR THAT YOU AND YOUR
HUSBAND BOTH WENT UPSTAIRS THINKING THAT THE TV WAS LEFT ON - OR HAD
COME ON - WHAT COMES INTO MY MIND IS A SOUND OF VOICES TALKING, BUT
THAT NEITHER YOU NOR YOUR HUSBAND COULD MAKE WORDS OUT OF WHAT SOUNDED
LIKE TELEVISION PEOPLE TALKING.
Yeah, I would say that is definitely true because that night when I
did go outside, I kept trying to figure it out. And it did have that
quality, but yet we never heard any particular words - kind of an old
television sound.
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT - WHATEVER THESE SOUNDS ARE - IS COMING TO US
FROM SOMETHING THAT IS DIRECTING OLD TELEVISION PROGRAMS AT US, BUT IN A
GARBLED FASHION? OR ARE TRYING TO GET OUR ATTENTION WITH VARIOUS SOUNDS
THAT MIGHT MAKE HUMANS PAY ATTENTION FOR REASONS THAT ARE UNKNOWN?
That's an interesting thought I hadn't really thought of - that's
like projecting things back at us they think might make some sense - or
at least have people react.
And then I listened to some of the other videos from other places
and that Norway one really - that's when I went to my husband and said,
‘Listen to this. Does this remind you at all of that night?’ And he
agreed that it somewhat did for him.”
“Voice of God” Weapon?
What if some of the strange sounds around the world were part of an
American government test of what some have called “Voice of God
weapons”? Around the time of 9/11, there were rumors that the Defense
Department wanted to try directing sound waves into the minds of Middle
East terrorists as the voice of Allah that would order terrorists to put
down their suicide belts.
Wired.com published a July 6, 2008, article entitled “The Microwave
Scream Inside Your Skull,” which described the U. S. Army's effort to
develop a non-lethal microwave weapon that would create sounds inside
human heads. That project was called MEDUSA - an acronym for Mob Excess
Deterrent Using Silent Audio. A beam of microwaves would be turned into
sound as the waves interacted with the target’s head. Nobody else can
hear the microwave sound unless they are in the beam as well. But the
shock to the target's skull was more likely to make MEDUSA a death ray
and allegedly that project was dropped.
However, last week Wired.com writer Noah Shachtman described a brand
new DARPA “Magic Plan: ‘Battlefield Illusions’ to Mess with Enemy
Minds.” DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the U.
S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of new
military technology. Schachtman reported that on February 13, “DARPA
introduced a new $4 million investigation into technologies that will
manage the adversary's sensory perception in order to confuse, delay,
inhibit or misdirect his actions.”
The goal of “Battlefield Illusion” electro-optical warfare is to find
ways to “jam laser-based communications and sensor systems - just like
today's radio frequency jammers mess with cell phones and radars.”
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