The Hum
The Hum is what people have called a phenomena that occurs in some places in the world. It is a low-frequency humming noise that sounds not unlike a distant running engine. However, the source can never be found. Even with microphones and all sorts of audio technology
The source of the Hum has yet to be found.
The most popular location to hear the Hum is in Taos, New Mexico. Only some can hear it as well as feel it. They can hear it throughout the day and into the night. The Hum does not stop. It has never stopped.
Taken from Wiki:
“Many people hear the Hum only, or much more, inside buildings as compared with outdoors. Many Hum sufferers can also perceive vibrations that can be felt through the body. Earplugs are reported as not decreasing the Hum. The Hum is often perceived more intensely during the night.
…Common consequences include a lack of sleep, as the Hum can keep some sufferers awake or wake them in the middle of the night.
…During the last decade, the Hum phenomenon has been reported in many other cities and regions in North America and Europe and in some other regions of the world.”
What will happen when the Hum reaches you? Will you hear it at night when you don’t expect it? Maybe it is already there.
Posted in Strange & Unknown
June 26th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
The wiki article has a recording for those of you that want to hear it.
In my opinion it sounds like an airplane. Or even a lawn mower. This could probably end up being debunked.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Educate yourself Google Tinnitus
June 30th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I you sure it’s not the buzzing from all the loud music people are listening to these days.
July 4th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
OMFG! I went to Taos to stay in the mountains for christmas and COULD NOT SLEEP because I heard a humming noise. And I was the ONLY one in the cabin that could hear it. Ugh…..Officially freak out now..
July 7th, 2008 at 11:43 am
So i went on wiki, originally to see if this really was on there, but then i saw the comment about the sound byte and so I went to go listen to it, I played it over and over, with my sound all the way up, and i can’t hear it, my computer says something is playing and my boyfriend and my dad can both hear it. The wiki article said it was most commonly heard by men…
July 9th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
what was weird was reading this article I began hearing some kinda pulsing noise. It’s like a humming noise like something is operating underground or under the house and I’m hearing the machine pulsing.
This is creeeeepy.
I’m going to go to wiki and see if i can hear the sound byte.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Hello.
Some beckonings are best ignored.
July 12th, 2008 at 6:41 am
the hum is magma, Taos is one of the few places with very a thin earth crust
July 15th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Somethin like this happened to me a couple nights ago. It was this low humming noise that shook my whole body. But I live in Colorado.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I once heard this low himming/buzzing sound when I was in Japan a little while ago. I had read this creepypasta, and was freaked out by it. Then I realized that it was a grasshopper…
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:55 am
The humming noise is your computer…
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:33 pm
This is a disorder called tinnitus. Nearly everyone has it but usually is drowned out by background noise. It is more common in males just like noise induced hearing loss. It is a disorder of the brain and has nothing to do with you “hearing” anything but is caused by the Eighth cranial nerve and its connection with the brain. To find out for yourself try to find a place with no sound such as a sound proof room, and listen hard.
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:29 pm
@audiologist - I think that this is supposed to be different than tinnitus, which is more of a ringing/pounding in the ears, right? The Hum is supposed to be more along the lines of a low, almost engine-like sound.
I dunno, I’ve never heard anything like what is described in the wiki article on The Hum, and I do get tinnitus from time to time/hear electricity (I have really sensitive hearing, it makes sleeping very hard).
August 1st, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I seem to rememeber on Wikipedia they traced the Hum to some fans and the like.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=14822
http://www.last.fm/music/Lemon+Demon/_/Neverending+Hum
Yep. First thing that came to mind when I read this.
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:28 am
I can sometimes hear the hum.
It is a queer sound, so very whimsical, as it seems to seep out of the very soil itself.
It could possibly have something to do with the earth’s magnetic waves, most probably.
Or it could be something else.
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:40 am
Man this one freaked me out!
I, too, hear the humm, but only in a specific place, which is near a little creek on my way home from school when I’m riding the bike.
It does Stop the Moment i turn my head, for some reason, and i spent some time a week ago, trying to locate a source.
It does sound like machinery, but theres no roadworks or anything being done near my location.
Gz from Germany, and thumbs up m8: Really nice blog, i enjoy working my way through this stuff
August 20th, 2008 at 7:06 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/7571870.stm
August 20th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Hhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm….
O.o
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:14 am
I went on Wiki and listened to the noise… I couldn’t hear anything, but as soon as it started playing, my eyes got extremely watery and it felt like my head was going to explode… hmmm…
I remember reading about this early sometime last year, but I had never heard it before… ah, that’s horrible.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I hear the Hum often. It comes from your core and soul. You cannot stop it. Once the Hum finds you, it stays with you.
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:35 pm
i hear all kinds of hums they aren’t annoying
October 15th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
i heard the hum myself,in my room,i was sitting cleaning out an old art breifcase,and,it was jsut like a buzzing right in my ear,at first i turned because it sounded as though some otherworldly entity was trying to speak into my ear,and i heard a click,then i went downstairs to find my house empty,it was wierd because their were no noises indicating that anyone left to pick up dinner,hmmmmmmmm,WATSON,I need my breifcase immediately.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:04 pm
ok i am serious when i say this. I only heard the hum once…last night. I thought i should tell my mom but it stopped after awhile. It seemed to move from one ear to the other…..its either that or i am going deaf.
October 28th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
OMMMMMMMMMMMMMINOUS HUMMMMMMMMMMMMM…
@EGF, #8: If that were true it would be especially common around tectonically active regions. It’s not.
The Hum is sort of… vaguely interesting, in a “it’s some process that we don’t understand yet” way.
The Bloop is much more interesting.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:30 am
I HEAR IT! I HEAR IT!!!
oh no wait, thats my luandry machine…..
November 16th, 2008 at 1:21 am
BUT WHO WAS HUM?