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List of Unexplained Sounds
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#42I lived in Taos, NM for about a year and never heard the eponymous Hum. Recalling the recent Hacker News item about anechoic chambers, it wouldn't surprise me if it has something to do with how quiet the place is. On more than one occasion standing outside the house on the mesa outside of town, the utter silence of the place got to me enough that I had to go back inside and talk to somebody. Perhaps my mind would hav…
This is unrelated but your comment made me think of it and you may find it interesting.
At age 13 I moved from San Diego CA to Brooklyn Park MN. Shortly after the move I spent a summer helping my stepfather's grandfather build an addition on his house. He lived in Park Rapids MN which in a very isolated, rural area 4 hours north of Minneapolis. After the first few weeks there I started to feel like I was going crazy. I had no history of mental illness but I was suddenly feeling increasingly anxious and agitated with each new day...then I put a hat on.
After I put on the hat, I felt normal again. I had always lived in cities and never had an unobstructed view for more than a mile or so. Out in the country I could see for many miles and it had an effect on me. The bill of the hat blocked my view.
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#43"The Hum" [1] is the most interesting to me, because my dad claims he used to hear the exact same kind of sound -- like a diesel engine starting up -- in the mornings when he lived in an older house with my mother.
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#44It's never aliens. It always turns out to be a prank, or ice cracking, or some other boring natural cause. Why can't it be aliens!?
If it ever is aliens, I hope they aren't some boring little bugs. They need to be just like in the movies.
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#45"The Hum" [1] is the most interesting to me, because my dad claims he used to hear the exact same kind of sound -- like a diesel engine starting up -- in the mornings when he lived in an older house with my mother. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum
I'm German currently in Canada and I heard the Hum apparently quite often in the last few days, never in Germany though. I've been on a very remote ranch somewhere 3 hours from Kamloops, BC and at first, I thought it was indeed a diesel engine starting up. Thing is, there was no neighbor close to that huge property. Then I heard it also 500m further away, same noise, same volume and also the same pattern. It's just for a short moment, 3-5 single tones in a row.
Then I drove with an ATV to some lake in the middle of nowhere and heard it again. I asked the other person I was with and she just said "well, it's someone starting a diesel engine". And I thought again: Who does start a diesel engine in the middle of nowhere. I thought it might be an animal or so, but could never tell for sure.
Edit: The interesting aspect is that I heard the Hum probably 3-4 times. 2x I was alone and in both other occasions, two different people heard the same sound. So I guess it was not just in my ears.
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#46Always sounds like http://ia600500.us.archive.org/12/items/ird059/tcp_d1_01_the... (give it some time...) and http://www.lostcosmonauts.com/firstman.ra managed to scare the hell out of me... shiver I wonder how fear and sounds like these are wired in our brains...
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#47It's never aliens. It always turns out to be a prank, or ice cracking, or some other boring natural cause. Why can't it be aliens!?
A loose association of alien races scattered across the galaxy, called The Pranksters by their victims and eventual associates.
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#49In large bodies of water, do you not observe oscillating sounds? I can't explain it very well (I forget the official name) but it's like pushing a wave onto another wave at just the right frequency so it creates a huge wave, could the same thing not happen with sounds in water? It might explain the ones that build up and then gradually decrease. I don't know much about this and am probably wrong but it's something I'…
Something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiche ?
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Partly - the specific ones all seem NOAA originated, which iirr is the American oceanographer group. They along with Navy proper have very vested interests in identifing unusual ocean sounds. But just as you can find parrots that say good morning, given enough fish swimming past enough deep seamicrophones, eventually one ofthem will sound like they are whistling a braoadway tune sorry folks, fun, creepy but in the en…
The sounds are extremely loud and some of them are recurring. Impossible for a fish to cause something like that. The explanation is probably quite prosaic, like ice creeping over Antartica, yet the sounds do carry some significance.
Even if it is a natural phenomenon, am I alone in thinking that it is still interesting?