The Hum
During the 1950s, people started reporting about hearing a disturbing, steady droning low-frequency hum. What’s weird is that only some people can hear the Hum, not everyone. And the Hum is generally heard indoors and louder during night-time.
This has been observed in urban areas only. It probably can’t be detected in cities because of the background noise. The most famous of the Hum zones are
Bristol, England
and Taos, Northern Mexico
Other spots include Windsor, Ontario and Bondi, a seaside area of Sydney, Australia.
According to a study in 2003, only 2% people can hear the Hum in the Hum-prone areas, and most of them are ages 55 to 70.
Most researchers investigating the Hum express some confidence that the phenomenon is real, and not the result of mass hysteria or hearers' hypochondria (or extraterrestrials beaming signals to Earth from their spaceships).
There's some speculation that the Hum could be the result of low-frequency electromagnetic radiation, audible only to some people. And there are verified cases in which individuals have particular sensitivities to signals outside the normal range of human hearing.
Environmental factors have also been blamed, including seismic activity such as microseisms — very faint, low-frequency earth tremors that can be generated by the action of ocean waves.
However, no-one has been able to confirm what the real reason behind this is.
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